Wharf42 News
WNT Ventures is Raising Fund 3
After serving on the WNT Ventures Investment Committee for six years, both Bill Murphy of Enterprise Angels and I officially stood down from that role yesterday . It’s been a real honour to firstly co-found WNT to provide the Bay of Plenty with a...
Building Collaborative Research Opportunities with CSIRO
In December, Jacqui and I caught up with Michiel Van Lookeren Campagne and Michael Robertson, Director and Deputy-Director of CSIRO’s Agriculture and Food Division respectively. We visited them at their offices in Canberra. It was an insightful...
Zespri Sponsor $25,000 trans-Tasman Water Challenge Research Prize
The Australia New Zealand Agritech Council and the Bridge Hub are delighted to announce that Zespri are sponsoring the $25,000 New Zealand Water Challenge Research prize. The Water Challenge is open to research organisations and researchers across...
Join our NZ Agritech Virtual Showcase with Western Growers!
This morning I had a briefing call with Dennis Donohue, Director of the Western Growers Technology and Innovation Center. We speak on a pretty regular basis. Wharf42 has been working with Western Growers since 2016, signing our first joint...
Watch Mint Innovation on Techweek TV. A WNT Ventures Fund 1 Investment
This is the first of a series of blog posts about some of the outstanding businesses that have received investment from WNT Ventures Fund 1. For some context, back in early 2014, I teamed up with two other Bay of Plenty-based entrepreneurs, Steve...
Techweek2020 TV. Talking Agritech ITP with David Downs
Today, David and I sat down at the Techweek2020 TV studio to talk about the Agritech Industry Transformation Plan (ITP). Now that it has crossed the line following last week’s formal launch in Tauranga, our focus is on its delivery and...
Aotearoa Agritech Unleashed identifies Major Opportunity for New Zealand’s Primary Sector
Commissioning and editing the research report, Aotearoa Agritech Unleashed, provided me with some great insights into the economic benefits that agritech could bring to New Zealand’s broader primary sector. These insights were quantified by...
Wharf42 supports the Bridge Hub Trans-Tasman Water Challenge
On Monday 13 July, I hosted the formal launch of the Bridge Hub Trans-Tasman Water Challenge during Fieldays Online. The focus of the Challenge is to identify current research being undertaken in both Australia and New Zealand designed to address...
The Agritech Industry Transformation Plan has finally launched!
The Agritech Industry Transformation Plan (ITP) was finally launched by Hon Phil Twyford at Zespri’s HQ in Tauranga yesterday. Phil was joined by Hon Damien O’Connor who took the opportunity to release Agritech New Zealand’s research report,...