How to secure Agriculture Funding with NAFI
Agriculture funding opportunities are crucial to the growth of Australia’s economy
In the realm of agriculture, funding plays a crucial role in driving; innovation, productivity, sustainability, and creating competitive advantage.
Agriculture investment in Australia is considered one of the Australian Federal Government’s five pillars contributing to Australia building and sustaining a world-class economy. Agriculture in Australia accounts for 12% of GDP and 1.6 million Australian jobs, half of which are located in regional Australia.
Whether you are an entrepreneur, founder, or agripreneur in Agriculture and Food, access to agtech funding through investment and/or grants for agriculture can be the key to unlocking potential and growth.
What is NAFI?
NAFI is the National Agriculture & Food Incubator (NAFI). NAFI plays a crucial role in supporting early-stage companies, agricultural founders, and agripreneurs in the Food-Tech and Ag-Tech sectors to become investment-ready and secure the agriculture investment they seek.
The NAFI Program
The NAFI incubator program provides customised training and connects its participants with experienced mentors, student-interns, industry-based customers, government programs, management, and consultancy services.
Our program is uniquely designed for early-stage entrepreneurs, agricultural start-ups, and C-level management in agriculture and food companies who are not only aiming to raise capital but who are seeking scalability and growth within their business.
The NAFI Program is supported by a panel of experienced mentors who will guide agriculture and food tech companies in understanding business gaps and preparing to raise investment capital .
How the NAFI program supports you in gaining agriculture investment
The NAFI Program offers its participants the skills, tools, and knowledge to develop investment-ready pitches to secure the agriculture investment they need to make an impact.
The NAFI Process which can be delivered all on-line, uses 5 workshops (delivered over 4 months) to build up founder skills in; articulating your business opportunity, finding agricultural funding such as grants and non-recourse loans, understanding how to use IP to create competitive advantage, understanding how equity investment works, and how to pitch for early-stage investment. .
At the end of the program, NAFI assembles a curated pool of potential investors and those companies wishing to do so, can formally pitch their opportunities, receive genuine feedback and hopefully commence investment discussions.
Government grants for agriculture businesses
Finding grants for which your business is eligible and spending valuable time preparing complex grant applications is very tough for most time-poor early-stage food-tech and ag-tech companies.
NAFI supports early-stage and start-up agriculture companies by identifying relevant grants for agriculture, providing an overview of their features and benefits, but importantly NAFI can also connect you to its in-house team of grant writing experts.
NAFI is committed to supporting ag-tech and food-tech companies in tackling the most pressing challenges facing the agriculture and food sectors today.
We exist to support early-stage companies in securing funding for agriculture and food focused companies. We do this by assisting with accessing government grants for agriculture and importantly by enabling companies to secure the investment capital they need to contribute to the growth, innovation, and competitiveness of Australian Agriculture.
Members of the NAFI program benefit through access to our experienced presenters and educators, our mentors and interns and also through our considerable networks that enable their agriculture and food businesses to obtain agri investment and grow.
Learn more about the NAFI program and how you can apply here.