Agri-tech startup

[peti...@gmail.com]

Hi

I am thinking about starting up a business in urban farming. I am at the ideation stage. A few questions already:  how to find a co-founder? which are the suitable accelerators? what are the potential relevant partnerships with universities? any tip you would already have ?

Thanks for advising

[Hugh Mason]

A couple of overview pieces:
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/garage/seeds-capital-partners-to-co-invest-over-s90m-in-agri-food-tech-startups
https://sgtechcentre.undp.org/content/sgtechcentre/en/home/blogs/sg-agritech-ecosystem.html

Check out https://www.gogrow.co/

To find a co-founder, you could try volunteering to organise an agri-tech flavoured event with an organisation like ACE 

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[Shailendra Singh]

With some experience in the Agritech field. 

1. You can first of all look at agfunder ( https://agfunder.com/ ). They are quite good. 

2. Second is Thrive Agritech ( https://thriveagrifood.com/ ) 

3. Third is Yield Agritech ( https://www.theyieldlab.com/ ) 

4. Another one is Rockstart ( https://www.rockstart.com/ ) 

It depends upon what your goal is in Urban farming. Some people are doing indoor ( hydroponics, aquaponics, Greenhouse ) and some are doing open fields. Jargon wise its Seed to plate. 

We can discuss more over the email. 

Thanks

With regards.

Shailendra Singh

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[peti...@gmail.com]

Good tips Shailendra. Will try to focus on aquaponics first. Just registred to Grow. let us see what happens then. Cheers

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[peti...@gmail.com]

Thanks a lot @Hugh. Very helpful !

Le vendredi 3 juillet 2020 15:18:35 UTC+8, Hugh Mason a écrit :

A couple of overview pieces:
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/garage/seeds-capital-partners-to-co-invest-over-s90m-in-agri-food-tech-startups
https://sgtechcentre.undp.org/content/sgtechcentre/en/home/blogs/sg-agritech-ecosystem.html

Check out https://www.gogrow.co/

To find a co-founder, you could try volunteering to organise an agri-tech flavoured event with an organisation like ACE 

On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 08:08, <peti...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

I am thinking about starting up a business in urban farming. I am at the ideation stage. A few questions already:  how to find a co-founder? which are the suitable accelerators? what are the potential relevant partnerships with universities? any tip you would already have ?

Thanks for advising

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[drllau]

In Australia and also Waikato, NZ, there's a specialist Accelerator which focuses only on agTech. You are more likely to find comparable interests and possible co-founders at those two. However, b4 you jump in and start brain-storming, I'd encourage you to think about the Why? Why do people want urban farming? Off top head
- community garden ... the crop output is secondary to bringing a neighbourhood together
- special interest ... eg flower cultivators or fresh herbs for foodies
- economic - waste space with high transport costs for perishables
- utility - eg plants for office hire

I'm sure you've got more ... because once you truly understand why, then you can figure out painpoints and what people are willing to pay to achieve their goals. This is a useful diagram I show to founders to get them on a decent foundation. Remember, apart from hobby lifestyle business, the point of a **business** is to satisfy a (paying) customer so you need to think about who they are before the rest of the pillars.