THRIVE Global Initiative
Australia Challenge
Congratulations to our AUSTRALIA Challenge Winners
THRIVE Australia Challenge Award
People’s Choice Award
Female Founder Award
WHAT IS IT?
The THRIVE Australia Challenge solves problems of the Australian agrifood industry
Accelerates the development of the ecosystem, and selects the best startups and scaleups for investment and global recognition.
Selection Criteria
Startups should be Seed to Series A with technologies focused in the following areas
Meet our Finalists
AgUnity
AgUnity is a tech startup with the ambition to be the digital services platform for the world’s 2-billion unbanked ‘Last Mile’ communities.
Ceres
Ceres Tag is one of the world’s most comprehensive animal monitoring platform companies spanning livestock, wildlife and companion animals.
DataFarming
DataFarming aims to reduce crop variability by empowering farmers and agronomists to adopt digital agronomy. We will become the worlds most widely used precision ag software.
Geora
Geora is connecting the world’s least digitised industry, with a platform that links farmers with digital economies globally.
Hillridge
Hillridge helps protect farmers against the financial impact of extreme weather on their crops or livestock.
Laconik
Laconik uses data science to make a recommendation for a farmer on where and how much fertiliser to apply to maximise profit.
ProAgni
Food needs to be produced abundantly, with a lower environmental footprint. How can this be done without it being a tax on farmers? ProAgni is solving this problem
Rubens
With a unique combo of sensors and analytics, Rubens is the quality and provenance intelligence system for the fresh food supply chain.
Swan Systems
SWAN Systems is a precision water and nutrient management platform that enables irrigators to improve yield whilst conserving resources.
Transpirational
Transpirational is developing a sprayable, biodegradable polymer membrane to increase water savings in crop production, whilst removing the environmental and financial burden of plastic mulch films.
Thinkbio
Thinkbio provides growers with solutions to improve the sustainable production of food and fibre without compromising yield.
Supporting Partners
Judging Panel
Susan Lucas
Sean Webb
Eleshea D'Souza
Sam Bucolo
John Harnett
Chamidu Karunathilake
Matthew Prent
Special Guest
Thomas Debass
The Honourable Jaclyn Symes
Nigel Warren
WINNING COMPANY RECEIVES
The winner will receive the THRIVE Australia Challenge Award and advance to the finals of the global THRIVE Accelerator Program with an opportunity to be selected for the THRIVE VII Cohort in Silicon Valley, CA.
- Recognition Award: THRIVE Australia Challenge Award
- Invitation to pitch at the THRIVE VII Accelerator Finals. Selected companies receive investment and the opportunity to pitch at THRIVE | Forbes Demo Day 2021 in Salinas, CA, USA
- Recognition by SVG THRIVE and Forbes Media
- Automatic acceptance as a Samsung XTC Finalist
Benefits for Entrepreneurs
- Recognition as one of the most promising agrifood companies in Africa—boosting existing ecosystems and attracting new agrifood innovation to the region
- Exposure to local and international investors and organizations
- THRIVE Accelerator Program qualification for the winning company
- Brand amplification through Forbes Media and THRIVE communication channels
- Access to expert mentors and advisors as well as access to THRIVE's extensive global entrepreneur network
THRIVE Australia Challenge Timeline
Partner Applications Open
Partner Applications Close
Program Kick Off
Workshops/ Programming
Silicon Valler Week & GIS
How to engage
Headline Partner
Headline Partners are looking to be the key sponsors and supporters of the Challenge—spotlighting early-stage startups that solve local or global agrifood tech challenges while getting visibility from the global innovation ecosystem.
Startup Partner
Startup Partners are interested in supporting the challenge winner while getting visibility in the region and globally through our community of over 18k startups, scaleups, corporations, and investors in agrifood tech.
Challenge Partner
Challenge Partners are looking to support the regional challenge, highlight the best startups in the region, and collaborate with key innovation leaders in the agrifood space.
Co-marketing Partner
Co-Marketing Partners have an extensive network of agrifood innovators in the region and are interested in getting visibility within our community of over 18k startups, scaleups, corporations, and investors in agrifood tech, while supporting the communication of the Challenge.