APAC II Accelerator Cohort

The below companies are part of the THRIVE APAC II Accelerator cohort.
AxisTech - Australia
Wes Lawrence​
Managing Director​

AxisTech is providing data-driven solutions and technologies at a farm, supply chain and industry level for:
– Operational decision making and risk management,
– Adoption of scientific research, automation and practice change and
– Net zero emissions agriculture and food production

Converte champions biological inputs for agriculture that enhance crop quality and profitability, while boosting Nutrient and Water Use Efficiency (NUE/ WUE). Addressing the pressing challenge of climate change adaptation, Converte offers a solution—a range of concentrated bio-agri inputs for seed, soil, plant and animal health, that build resilience, support yield retention and increase profitability for the farmer. With an easy application and seamless integration, Converte paves the way for a smoother transition towards a more sustainable, low-carbon future in agriculture.

Converte - Australia​
John Ridley​
Managing Director ​
CropScanAg - Australia​
Philip Clancy​
CEO
Mat Clancy​
General Manager​

CropScanAg provides the industry leading solution in Near Infrared (NIR) On-Combine Grain Analysis, providing real-time grain quality data and powerful field data anaalytics to optimise crop production. With over 6 million acres of protein data collected worldwide, our technology allows farmers to make data-driven decisions during harvest, through to seeding and spraying. Our solution offers farmers precise and accurate data for optimising crop production and input efficiency

Laconik specialises in technology that facilitates convenient monitoring and reporting of farm-scale trials. Our innovative platform, the Laconik Experimental Engine for Farms® (LEEF®), streamlines data transfer, trial establishment, and monitoring. This cloud-based solution encompasses grain yield data collection, automated statistical analysis, and result reporting, enhancing product evaluation for growers and crop science firms.

Laconik - Australia​
Dr Darren Hughes​
Managing Director​
Nanobubble Agritech - Australia​
Leon Power​
CEO
Lauren Oehme​
Corporate Manager​

Nanobubble Agritech build retrofittable systems that add extremely high amounts of oxygen gas, at up to 4x supersaturation, to a farmers irrigation water. This nanobubble treatment does three things, primarily it provides a chemical free solution to significantly improve plant growth rate and crop yield, improves water use efficiency, and is a solution to several problematic plant soil health diseases.

We empower Ag producers to grow more for less by providing nature inspired AgBiologics/biochemical products that create plant microbiomes, not kill them and insure the future of agriculture and the planet.

New Wave Biotech - australia​
Simon Humphrys​
CEO
Barry Palte​
Chairman​
Octopusbot - Australia​
Carolina Ferreira​
Co-Founder and Director​
Rodrigo Cortes
Co-Founder and Director​

Octopusbot revolutionizes the grain industry with its AI-powered SaaS platform, providing accurate forecasts and market insights to tackle notorious price volatility and high weather uncertainty. Our cutting-edge solution analyses data from thousands of sources, enabling growers, traders, and buyers to make confident data-driven decisions. Octopusbot delivers unprecedented accuracy, allowing customers to reduce risk, plan strategically, and boost profits. With Octopusbot, our customers experience a new era of sustainable agriculture, fair compensation, and peace of mind in the grain market.

Smart Paddock has developed an animal management analytics for the livestock industry that provide real-time information to producers about the health status, behaviour, and accurate geo-location of all the animals in their herd. Utilizing on-animal sensor data straight from the paddock, the platform will analyse the individual animal and group bio-metric data gathered and give actionable insights to the producer on many key herd performance factors: security/location, animal health and well-being, pedigree management, animal performance, animal activity and pasture utilization.

Smart Paddock - Australia​
Darren Wolchyn​
CEO
Tie Up Farming - Australia​
Roei Yaakobi​
CEO

First end-to-end farm operations and monitoring platform (ERP system for farms) that leverages advanced data analytics to help growers operate their farms, profitably utilizing sets of data that are unique to TieUp Farming.

Exocule provides a precision fermentation intelligence platform for anything that uses fermentation systems in production. Their flagship product Winely provides winemakers with real-time fermentation information, data analytics, alerts, and warnings, doing away with manual sampling and lab processing, removing a known health & safety risk, and providing more control over the fermentation than ever before resulting in greater quality end product. The bespoke sensing technology combines machine learning and novel sensing capability resulting in an all-in-one sensing capability.

Winely - Australia​
Jacob Manning​
CEO
Abbe Hyde​
Chief Product Officer​

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