Sprout is a new agritech accelerator programme delivered by The BCC, Building Clever Companies in Palmerston North.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence Stu Bradbury is well known to the LandWISE community through his role starting and growing Where’s My Cows, Precision Irrigation and its Variable Rate Irrigation technology and more recently setting up AgriOptics in the North Island..
Stu will be introducing the Sprout Accelerator programme at LandWISE 2016 and giving a brief review of its first achievements.
Accompanying Stu are representatives from two successful Sprout programme participants, AgriTrack and Bee’z Thingz.
Dunedin entrepreneurs Andrew Humphries and Tom Rivett created AgriTrack to help large scale crop farmers with the multitude of logistical challenges during harvest time, particularly those associated with vehicle management. Their solution enables live tracking of vehicles and is already being used in more than 30 farms in Western Australia.
Mangere Bridge duo Julian McCurdy and Peter Bennett set up Beez Thingz using technology to develop a platform for hive management so a network of kept bees could be accessed by everyone in the industry.
Just three more exciting offerings at LandWISE 2016!