Meet the Founder: eClean Technologies
May 7, 2021
Meet Ngārie Scartozzi the founder of eClean technologies, one of the companies in our 2021 Cohort A.
eClean Technologies, founded by Ngaire, has developed a bioreactor device that works to remove nitrates, phosphates, and other chemical and biological contaminants from wate...
Meet the Founders: Vince
April 27, 2021
Meet Debbie and Nigel Stowe, co-founders of Olive and Ash and their consumer product, Vince - one of the companies in our 2021 Cohort A.
Serial entrepreneurs, the team met at University where Nigel was earning his degree in business management, and Deb was about t...
Meet the Founders: YieldTec
April 6, 2021
Meet Laurence and Khalid, the team at YieldTec, one of the companies in our 2021 Cohort A.Dr Kahlid Salah is the Founder and CEO of YieldTec. From Yemen originally, he came to New Zealand to complete his PhD studies in mechatronics at the University of Canterbury. Laure...
By 2050 it is estimated that there will be 10 billion people on the planet. That's 10 billion people to feed - something that the agriculture sector will play a huge part in making happen.
However, with extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and destructive sea surges be...
Meet the Founders: University of Auckland
March 15, 2021
Meet Nijat Imin & Samuel Wilkins. The University of Auckland (UoA) team and one of the companies in Cohort A!Nijat Imin is the creator of the IP. He is a passionate plant biologist and senior lecturer at the Faculty of Science at UoA. Before joining UoA, Nijat was at the Aus...
Meet the Founders: Soochi Drinks
February 23, 2021
Tina Chou, Margie Hunt, and Naz Babapour are the three women Co-Founders behind Soochi Drinks, the functional beverage company from Cohort A. We recently sat down with Tina and Margie to get to know the founders a little more....
New way of sensing becomes commercial reality
January 27, 2021
Scentian Bio spins out from Plant & Food Research with investment from Sprout....
Soil, water and human health - Sprout's latest cohort has a flair for sustainability.
January 5, 2021
Introducing the first of two cohorts this year for the Sprout Accelerator. Cohort A will officially commence their partnership with Sprout on 1 February. Check out who we’re partnering with below....
Gil Meron named Chief Executive of Sprout
December 3, 2020
Marcel van den Assum, Chair of Sprout is pleased to announce that Gil Meron has been appointed Chief Executive of Sprout as someone who will help grow the agtech and foodtech sectors and says that “Gil brings global innovation, leadership credentials and investment experie...
