News & Stories

Snap Group: Every picture tells a story

Snap Group is one New Zealand company with huge ambitions. Front and centre on its website is this mission statement: “We want to positively impact the lives of at least one billion people through technology, AI and data capture.” 

CropX Technologies: The X factor

Bridgit Hawkins, Chief Sustainability Officer for CropX Technologies discusses the challenges of growing your business and the benefits of successful partnerships in the Primary Sector.

AgriTechNZ News: Celebrating Success

Celebrating the work of others in our sector is good for all of us. It’s an act of good citizenship that recognises both our individual and shared work in building a smart ecosystem. Ecosystem citizenship behaviour encourages collaborative approaches, collective action for the sector and indirect social exchanges (such as the behaviour of paying it forward and supporting the development of others in the community). We’ve had some opportunities to recognise the good works of others in the last month and look forward to further opportunities.

Celebrating Agritech Excellence

AgriTechNZ News: cementing new relationships

As we shoot past the halfway point of 2022 and  take time for Matariki reflections, I’m excited for the sector growth opportunities ahead. I’m especially grateful for developing relationships in person. In the next few months we will see agritech visitors coming to New Zealand and agritech innovators heading overseas.  This is the time to form and cement new relationships.

NEW ZEALAND’S AGRITECH SECTOR VITAL TO COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC GROWTH

TIN’s third annual Agritech Insights Report offers significant analysis of New Zealand’s agricultural technology export sector. AUCKLAND, 1 July 2022 – Technology Investment Network (TIN) has released its third annual New…

Hot Lime Labs: Carbon champions

Hot Lime Labs, is developing technology that enables greenhouses to be more productive, efficient and sustainable by providing cheaper, cleaner CO2. It didn’t start out that way.

BioLumic: Lights, cannabis, action!

BioLumic UV technology delivers ultraviolet light to seeds and seedlings to trigger biological mechanisms

WayBeyond: The future is now

WayBeyond develops technology solutions for commercial growers around the globe. Solutions that allow growers to do more with less: to harness new technologies, connect disparate systems and leverage plant and environmental data to optimise farming processes.

AgriTechNZ News: Strengthening connections

The agritech sector remains at the forefront of discussions covering climate action, high value jobs, investment opportunities, global impact and farming practice. The driving force of AgriTechNZ has been to…

Nominees for AgriTech New Zealand Executive Council

Proposed Nominees for AgriTech New Zealand Executive Council seats Major Corporate Nominees Ben Wakely, PwC NZ The scope and pace of change being thrust on the food and fibre sector…

Looming global food shortage highlights NZ’s role in climate action

New Zealand can feed 40 million people, or five percent of the diet of 800 million people with high quality food, AgriTechNZ chief executive Brendan O’Connell says.

Shared challenges and positive growth

AgriTechNZ recently attended dinner in Wellington with the Hon Stuart Nash, Minister for Economic and Regional Development.  It was a special opportunity to highlight the importance of agritech in supporting…

Supporting economic growth

Following a week of announcements on emissions reduction plans and budget allocations, the role of agritech is front and centre for New Zealand.  Funding for the Agritech Industry Transformation Plan…

Sprout Accelerator: search for cohort IX

Sprout, New Zealand’s leading agrifoodtech accelerator and investor, is on the hunt for entrepreneurs for their next cohort!

Agritech companies helping reduce NZ’s rural emissions

AgriTechNZ chief executive Brendan O’Connell says agritech has a key role to play in cutting emissions as well as boosting export earnings.

AgriTechNZ Annual Meeting and Executive Council Elections 2022

There is now an opportunity to put yourself forward or nominate someone else for a role on the AgriTechNZ Executive Council.

FlipFarm: Necessity is the mother of invention

FlipFarm built a solution to fix their own pain point - and managed to solve a problem for oyster farmers around the world.

AgriSea: The power of local knowledge

AgriSea is an award-winning, family-owned seaweed company delivering high value nutrition products for the primary sectors including soil, plant, animal and bee nutrition.

Greentech Robotics: Taking on the world

Greentech Robotics mission is a bold one: to future-proof farming by developing cutting-edge robotic capability across the agricultural and horticultural sector.