Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Brisbane, Australia
The 53 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Brisbane, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Nourish Ingredients.
Our analysis of 50 Food and Agriculture Tech companies
90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2023; the median company was founded 2017.
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Brisbane
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nourish Ingredients Developer of lab-grown fat substitutes through yeast fermentation 72Innovation top 20%Patents top 24%Moat top 25%Funding top 35% All 7 signals ▾Innovationtop 20% Patentstop 24% Moattop 25% Fundingtop 35% Marketbottom 45% Newsbottom 42% Globalbottom 40% Innovation: 43 patents (top 29% of patent-holders) · 41 filings since 2022 vs 2 in 2017-21 Patents: 43 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 41 filings since 2022 vs 2 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $40M | 45 mo ago | Series A | — | 2020 | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 2 | SwarmFarm Robotics Integrated autonomy for efficient, sustainable agriculture through robotics and technology 48Growth top 25%News top 25%Moat top 37%Talent top 38% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 25% Newstop 25% Moattop 37% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 39% Patentstop 43% Innovationtop 49% Techbottom 47% Globalbottom 42% Marketbottom 28% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo News: 6 BI events in 12 mo (of 10 tracked, 1 types) · 6 high-value events (IPO/M&A/funding/contracts) in 12 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $12M | 9 mo ago | Series B | Jocie Bate Co-Founder & CFO | 2012 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+31 | 1 launch |
| 3 | mOOvement Provider of GPS enabled ear tags for cattle tracking | $1M | 63 mo ago | Seed | Pieter Vogels Co-Founder & Co-CEO | 2017 | WebflowAmazon ALBReact+16 | — |
| 4 | TAGR Provider of contactless shopping solution for businesses | $1M | 48 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2019 | — | — |
| 5 | RapidAIM Provider of a precision pest management solutions | $891K | 64 mo ago | Series A | Nancy Schellhorn Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | — |
| 6 | Friday Beers Online subscription service for craft beers based in Australia. | $18K | 121 mo ago | Deadpooled | Lee Mathers Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 7 | Reforest Provider of an app based platform for growing plants and reducing carbon emissions | — | 43 mo ago | Seed | Daniel Walsh Founder | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — |
| 8 | ABSeeds Online retailer of open-pollinated seeds | — | — | Unfunded | Victoria Brun Founder & Director | 2003 | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | — |
Top 7 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Brisbane
#1
Series B · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2012 · 17 employees$11.5Mraised▾
Integrated autonomy for efficient, sustainable agriculture through robotics and technology. The company pioneers intelligent robotics for agriculture, offering solutions for efficient and sustainable farming. They develop and deploy sensor-guided autonomous units, providing a universal platform adaptable to various industries. Their robots empower farmers with customized solutions, addressing local farming system challenges. The company focuses on spray, spread, and mow applications, utilizing small machines with big technology to revolutionize farming operations. They offer integrated autonomy through lightweight autonomous platforms and an open ecosystem, enabling farmers to innovate and adapt. The company's approach redefines productivity on the farm, promoting collaborative agriculture and a sustainable future. They are involved in agricultural technology, AI, robotics, agtech, agritech, and autonomous farming.
- Oct 2025Series B$19.8M
- Feb 2023Series A$8.3M
- Mar 2021Series A—
- Oct 2020Series A$3.2M
#2
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2020 · 44 employees$39.6Mraised▾
Producer of alternative fat-free food products intended to help people improve their quality of life. The company offers potent animal fats to make plant proteins delicious, enabling customers to create plant-based products with the authentic taste, smell and cooking experience that people want and expect.
#3
Deadpooled · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2019 · 9 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Provider of contactless shopping solutions for businesses. The customers can scan the product barcode or store QR code, paying for the products from the mobile device, and receive digital receipts. It helps businesses to improve in-store hygenic practices, customer shopping experience, customer lifetime value(CLV), reduce customer acquisition costs(CAC), and more. It also helps customers with contactless checkout, personalized shopping, customer engagement, and more.
- Jun 2022Seed$1.1M
#4
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2017 · 10 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Provider of GPS-enabled ear tags for cattle tracking. It caters to the needs of bull tamers. Its features include it provides information on of best performing bull, geo-fencing, water availability and consumption data, reusable, periodical reports, and an integrable mobile app. Its app is available on Android and iOS platforms.
- Apr 2021Seed$1.3M
#5
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2018 · 15 employees$890.9Kraised▾
Provider of a precision pest management solutions.
- Mar 2021Series A—
- May 2019Grant (prize money)—
- Oct 2018Seed$890.9K
#6
Deadpooled · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2015$18.1Kraised▾
Friday Beers provides an online subscription service for craft beers. Company curates and delivers a sample of craft beers to its customers on every Friday. Company doesn't have any lock in contracts and doesn't charge delivery fees. Service is available in Sydney and Brisbane as of June, 2016.
- Jun 2016Angel$18.1K
#7
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2019—raised▾
Provider of an app-based platform for growing plants and reducing carbon emissions. Its platform connects businesses and their customers to remove carbon dioxide through the regeneration of local ecosystems. It enables businesses to Log their purchases in the platform to calculate their carbon footprint and to collaborate with retailers to match the action. Its mobile application is available for Android and iOS platforms.
- Nov 2022Seed—
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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How research on Food Technology is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around Food Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,002 Australia-affiliated papers.
- Agriculture and Food83
- Deakin University76
- RMIT University56
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation54
- University College London49
- Food processing1→4
- Food safety2→43
- Food processing5→39
- Agriculture1→29
- Sustainability1→23
- Food science2→17
- Food safety6→83
- Food security17→89
- Food processing16→83
- Food systems9→70
- Sustainability6→63
Where food tech is researched across Australia
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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