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Discover the 9 companies that presented at the 2024 SparkLabs Cultiv8 Showcase and Future Food Dinner.

A compostable mulch film that could prevent 20,000 tonnes of plastic being thrown away on Aussie farms each year; a synthetic palm oil that could stop the destruction of forests worldwide; and a probiotic found in cow stomachs that can halve the methane cattle produce.

Business leaders from the food sector say Australia’s position as a global food power is under threat.

Agri-food tech accelerator, SparkLabs Cultiv8, has held its 2024 Showcase in Orange, enticing 200 agtech investors, innovators and researchers to its pitch event.

The NSW Central Tablelands city of Orange is fast becoming known for its association with an emerging agriculture and food technology start-up sector that is also putting it on the global map.

The future of food production is looking bright as SparkLabs Cultiv8 wraps up its latest program.

Australia's homegrown agritech continues to flourish, supporting a new era for the way we farm and produce food.

Aussie agtech is hoping its unique experiences of climate change will allow it to spearhead international expansion. The signs are promising.

AgTechNavigator caught up with SparkLabs Cultiv8, an Australian-based accelerator programme that supports early-stage agri-food tech and cleantech startups from ideation to commercialisation.

There's a range of new technologies in the pipeline within our ag sector. Brought together by an Orange based program, they're determined to prosper into the future.

The Wealth(y) Effect chatted to Jonathon about the 2024 program and opportunities for investors in the agri-food sector.

Global investment in agrifood tech increased more than tenfold in the past decade, from $3 billion 10 years ago to around $30 billion today. With such strong tailwinds, 2024 is bound to be a bumper year, and this brings both opportunity and risk.

The partnership is designed to foster research and development between the two countries on a range of technologies, including pollination robots.

Cleantech agri-food accelerator SparkLabs Cultiv8 has announced the nine startups taking part in its annual accelerator program.

Some of the latest and greatest food technology ideas were on show in Orange recently for the Sparklabs Cultiv8 Showcase.

SparkLabs Cultiv8 has just opened applications for its 2024 Clean Tech accelerator. Jonathon Quigley from SparkLabs Cultiv8 joins us now. Jonathan, welcome to ausbiz.

SparkLabs Cultiv8, Australia’s most active Agri-Food Tech accelerator, has opened applications for its sixth agri-food tech accelerator. Having successfully run the first cleantech program this year, SparkLabs Cultiv8 will focus again on cleantech agri-food companies in 2024.

In the fertile grounds of regional Australia, a budding movement is trying to redefine the landscape of agriculture through technological innovation and sustainable practices.

​SparkLabs Cultiv8 is backing sustainable innovation and accelerating a group of startups in Orange's own 'Agtech Silicon Valley'.

The Showcase & Future Food Dinner is the premier event our six-month program. An afternoon dedicated to innovation, attendees explored the evolution of SparkLabs Cultiv8, the cutting-edge technologies from our 2023 cohort

200 Agri-Food Tech experts descend on Orange NSW – described as ‘the Silicon Valley of agtech’ – as SparkLabs Cultiv8, Australia’s most active Agri-Food Tech accelerator, celebrates the completion of its first Clean Tech program.

The latest batch of companies looking to positively address climate change have hit Orange, with a five-year project notching a major milestone.

Ten new start-up companies from across Australia made their way to Orange, NSW, each building technology that will help address climate change in the industry.

Having successfully run the first cleantech program this year, SparkLabs Cultiv8 will focus again on cleantech agri-food companies in 2024

Applications for SparkLabs Cultiv8’s cleantech accelerator are open for another fortnight, with space for 10 startups ready to transform the future of agri-food tech.

In case you’re under the impression that Australia’s business and finance powerhouses are all located in either Sydney and Melbourne, think again.

After recently being named the eighth most active agriculture and food technology accelerator globally from AgFunder, SparkLabs Cultiv8 has announced the ten businesses set to receive almost $1 million in funding on their path to revolutionising the global agriculture industry.

SparkLabs Cultiv8, the startup food and agtech accelerator, has announced that the world’s leading food and agricultural technology start-ups will gather in Sydney on Tuesday 10 September at its annual demoday.

After receiving an international set of applicants, Asian accelerator group SparkLabs Group‘ Cultiv8 accelerator has chosen its first cohort of nine agtech startups (see the full cohort below).

Having successfully run the first cleantech program this year, SparkLabs Cultiv8 will focus again on cleantech agri-food companies in 2024

Australia is set to get a second accelerator for agriculture technology companies with $10 million behind it, when a program funded by Asian venture capital giant SparkLabs and the NSW Department of Primary Industries starts in Orange next March.