Accelerator
SparkLabs Cultiv8
Orange, NSW, Australia · AgTech & FoodTech
A six-month global accelerator for agri-food technology, embedded within the NSW Department of Primary Industries since 2017. Concentrates on innovations that improve farm productivity, sustainability, and supply chain resilience.
Visit SparkLabs Cultiv8How it runs
As SparkLabs Cultiv8 publishes it.
- Program
- Six months, beginning and ending in Orange, NSW, and running globally in between.
- Host
- Embedded within the NSW Department of Primary Industries, accelerating agri-food tech since 2017.
- Where it helps
- Commercialisation at pace, market entry in Australia and abroad, and access to investors through partners with deep financial experience.
Who runs it
In the order SparkLabs Cultiv8 sets them on its own team page.
Malcolm NuttPartner
Jonathon QuigleyPartner
Frank MeehanInvestment Committee
Jimmy KimInvestment Committee
Tiffany HollandProgram Director
Mitch KosevInvestment Director
1 of them is published only by SparkLabs Cultiv8, so that name links to its own team page.
From this program
5 companies in the published portfolio name SparkLabs Cultiv8 as an investing entity.
Aquabyte
Aquabyte builds machine learning camera IOT software to directly solve the world's food sustainability issues.
Innerplant
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Leading Edge
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Soos
Soos develops an incubation system that affects the sex development process and turns genetic males into functional female chicks.
Farmbot
Farmbot was established in Sydney in 2014 and is a leading Australian Agtech company in the Internet of Things (IoT) of Agriculture.
Entity details verified against SparkLabs Cultiv8’s official website in August 2026. Figures shown here are published by SparkLabs Cultiv8, not calculated by this site.
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