The Seven Year Itch: What We Got Wrong (and Right) in Australian Agtech, with Sam Duncan and Natalie Engel

About this episode

Sam Duncan and Natalie Engel discuss their experiences in building agtech startups and the evolution of the Australian agtech ecosystem seven years after the first evokeAG.

Seven years after pitching at the first evokeAG, Sam Duncan (GXLab) and cattle producer, Natalie Engel reflect on what it really takes to build agtech. In this live episode, they share their experience of building an agtech startup and the evolution of the Australian agtech ecosystem.

People in this episode

Guests: Sam Duncan, Natalie Engel

Topics covered

• Australian agtech
• startup experience
• agtech ecosystem

Keywords

• agtech
• startup
• evolution
• Australia

Mentioned in this episode

Products: GXLab

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