Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Western Australia, Australia
The 75 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Western Australia, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Rumin8.
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 Western Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rumin8 Provider of methane emission control solutions for livestock farmers 48Talent top 28%Funding top 30%News top 34%Growth top 37% All 8 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 30% Newstop 34% Growthtop 37% Moattop 39% Techbottom 49% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 31% Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $17.4M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 5 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $17M | 2 mo ago | Series A | Stewart Washer Co-Founder & Chairman | 2021 | WordPressMySQLRedis+21 | 1 award |
| 2 | Snackr App based platform offering in-seat food delivery | $915K | 48 mo ago | Seed | Cale Walsh Co-Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 3 | Nemgenix Developer of plant-resistant traits | $593K | 162 mo ago | Funding Raised | Sean Hird Co-Founder & CEO | 2007 | — | — |
| 4 | Agora Livestock Provider of an app-based marketplace platform for livestock | $550K | 38 mo ago | Funding Raised | Rob Kelly Founder & Managing Director | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | 2 partnerships |
| 5 | SeaStock Provider of solutions to produce and extract compounds derived from seaweed and algae 11Talent top 38%Funding bottom 49%Global bottom 36%Market bottom 18% All 4 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingbottom 49% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 18% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $481k across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 3 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 11/100 | $481K | 8 mo ago | Funding Raised | Tom Puddy Co-Founder / Managing Director | 2021 | — | 2 launchs |
| 6 | The Natural Food Emporium Internet first brand offering baking mix | $285K | 52 mo ago | Funding Raised | Kym Hawkins Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 7 | Laconik AI & data science-based farm mapping solution provider | $250K | 79 mo ago | Funding Raised | Darren Hughes Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 8 | Farmsave Online marketplace for buying broadacre agrochemicals | $40K | 110 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Dirk Butter Co-Founder | 2006 | — | — |
Top 10 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Western Australia
#1
Series A · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2021 · 17 employees$17.4Mraised▾
Provider of methane emission control solutions for livestock farmers. It uses technology to stabilize and replicate anti-methanogenic compounds of nature to turn them into scalable supplements. Its supplements are then used for ruminants that enable livestock farmers to reduce enteric methane production in livestock.
- Mar 2026Series A$3M
- Nov 2025Series A$11M
- Jan 2023Seed$12M
- Jul 2022Seed$4.8M
#2
Funding Raised · Fremantle, Western Australia · founded 2021 · 4 employees$481.3Kraised▾
Provider of solutions to produce and extract compounds derived from seaweed and algae. the company focuses on natural sea-grown feed supplements for carbon-neutral livestock. It has an online maintenance tool for onboard coatings management, which includes an inventory control and product ordering system.
- Oct 2025Grant (prize money)$481.3K
- Oct 2023Grant (prize money)—
#3
Funding Raised · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2018 · 4 employees$550Kraised▾
Provider of an app-based marketplace platform for livestock. It enables sellers and buyers to access price data and sale yard reports for making decisions about buying and selling. Its mobile application is available for Android and iOS platforms.
- Mar 2023Grant (prize money)$550K
#4
Seed · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2018 · 3 employees$915Kraised▾
App based platform offering in-seat food delivery. The product catalog includes burgers, sliders, cheeseburgers, double patty burgers, hot dogs, desserts, and more. The platform allows users to order through the application and deliver to them in-seat at events.
- Jun 2022Seed$915K
#5
Funding Raised · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2017$285.2Kraised▾
Internet first brand offering baking mix. The product catalog includes cookie mix, muffin mix, flour, etc. The company claims that the products are gluten-free. The platform offers multiple baking recipes.
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$285.2K
#6
Funding Raised · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2007$593Kraised▾
Developer of plant-resistant traits. It is involved in the development of novel crop traits for plant-parasitic nematodes and aphids resistance. It plans to utilize a technology that exploits the cellular mechanism called RNA interference(RNAi). In RNAi gene expression is inhibited, silenced through the destruction of micro RNA.
- Dec 2012Grant (prize money)$207K
- Jan 2010Grant (prize money)$386K
#7
Funding Raised · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2017 · 2 employees$250Kraised▾
Laconik specializes in providing artificial intelligence and data-science based farm mapping solutions. It offers a product called Play'N To Win that combines various and current disparate sources of location information to create variable-rate fertilizer maps. It also offers N mapper that the nitrogen content of wheat farms using remote sensing information.
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$250K
#8
Seed · Victoria Park, Western Australia · founded 2018 · 9 employees$25Kraised▾
Mobble provides livestock farm management solutions. It offers cloud-based software that enables users to record livestock numbers, stocking rates, treatments, paddock events, season histories, farm operations, etc. Users can also track livestock and collaborate with workers in real-time to manage multiple operations.
- Jan 2021Seed—
- May 2019Seed—
- Grant (prize money)$25K
#9
Acqui-Hired · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2006 · 5 employees$40Kraised▾
Online marketplace for buying broadacre agrochemicals. It is marketplace for buying broadacre agrochemicals. The company enables farmers to order the product with its brand name and quantity. The company aggregates the orders of respective brands and negotiates with suppliers and dealers of those brands for discounted pricing. The supplier has to deliver the products at rural depots near the order clusters and the respective farmers / buyers can pick up their orders.
- Apr 2017Seed$40K
#10
Seed · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2014$40Kraised▾
Ovass has developed a software platform for connecting sensor data with the public weather data for providing actionable insights for the agriculture industry. The platform can integrate with as many sensors and can connect through many sources such as WiFi and the internet. The information from the sensors is streamed from 1 min to 1-hour delay and can be seen by the user on the software dashboard. It was one of the finalists in the DataStart competition 2016.
- Apr 2017Seed$40K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food and Agriculture Tech coverage by sub-theme.
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Funding & growth over time
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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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