Australian-Grown Innovation 2025 Build phase: Mid-program update

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The Australian-Grown Innovation 2025 Build phase is making significant strides in its mission to accelerate innovation across Australia’s horticulture and food sectors. Led by Hort Innovation Frontiers and powered by Startupbootcamp and Cluster Connect, the program brings together a dynamic cohort of companies, each tackling some of the industry’s most pressing challenges – from sustainability and supply chain transparency to biosecurity…

Hort Innovation Venture Fund announces first investment

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The Hort Innovation Venture Fund, Australia’s first horticulture-focused venture capital fund, has today made its inaugural investment, marking a landmark moment for the sector. Funding automated disease detection provider, BioScout, this investment signals a new era of support for transformative technologies that will shape the future of Australian horticulture.   Launched in late 2024, the Hort…

Map of Australia with the logos of the Australian Grown Innovation cohort.

Inaugural Australian-Grown Innovation ‘Incubate’ cohort named at Hort Connections

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Today the first cohort of Australian-Grown Innovation ‘Incubate’ participants was announced at a Hort Connections breakfast in Brisbane. This follows the launch of the program in March this year, which saw 72 participants from across the horticulture supply chain involved in engagement sessions held around the country. The ‘Incubate’ cohort, which is made up of 14 growers, will participate…

Matt Mansfield and Symone Young from Mansfield Nursery Victoria holding plants

Program launched to unlock grower solutions for Australia’s biggest horticulture challenges

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Mentoring to transform ideas into real solutions is one of the key offerings of a new program launched today by Hort Frontiers. The new program – Australian-Grown Innovation, developed in partnership with Startupbootcamp and Cluster Connect – is designed to drive innovation that will tackle the most pressing challenges in horticulture.   Over the next five years, the…

Brett Fifield CEO Hort Innovation speaking at Hort Connections

Call for start-ups to help Australian farmers curb costs

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As fruit, vegetable and nut growers face challenging economic conditions and a drop in consumption, grower-owned not-for-profit research and development company, Hort Innovation, today announced it will activate $60M of investment into early-stage startups to drive positive change. Through a partnership with Artesian, a leading alternative and impact investing firm, the new Hort Innovation Venture…