Join the revolution
February 7, 2023
Globally, we’ve hit an AgriTech revolution with annual investments in AgriTech hitting ten billion dollars for the past two years but Adrian Percy doesn’t think it’s enough. With over 30 years of experience, the executive director of the North Carolina Plant Sciences I...
Sprout is hiring!
June 30, 2022
When any company grows, the need to resource its growth becomes paramount and Sprout is in a position to need to do just that. With recent personal changes and a lot of good growing pains, we are on the look out for three new herd members.
Accelerator ManagerCommunity and Ev...
Is the age of free money over?
June 15, 2022
The answer is probably yes.In recent years, 'free' money has been abundant in the market due to unique microeconomic conditions. But the tides are turning with markets becoming unstable, inflation rising, and central banks attempting to stamp out this inflation. Meanwhile, c...
MenuAid, a cloud-based food technology platform that is solving the “What's for dinner?” dilemma has received a $1M investment from Sprout, New Zealand’s specialist AgriTech and FoodTech seed-stage investor. MenuAid provides highly personalised recipes and smart ...
Agtech start-up Protag has raised $1m from investment firm Sprout to fast track the development of its smart ear tag sensors, which transmit crucial health and location data to dairy farmers within seconds.
Protag’s small internet-enabled device clips onto a cow’s ear, a...
Meet the Founders: Split
August 24, 2021
“We wanted to provide another investment class that Kiwis could access; but not just rich Kiwis, all Kiwis”.
Meet Gabriel Dykes and Alex Thompson, two University of Otago students making it easy for Kiwis to invest in the horticulture sector, through new online inv...
Meet the Founders: Cropsy Technologies
June 8, 2021
Meet the team at Cropsy, one of the companies in our Cohort A, Leila, Ali, Winston, and Rory. Cropsy are developing a vineyard management system that uses machine vision cameras to auto-detect pests, disease, help estimate yield, and general vineyard management practice...
New way of sensing becomes commercial reality
January 27, 2021
Scentian Bio spins out from Plant & Food Research with investment from Sprout....
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