Sprout Agritech nurtures its crop of food and farm startups

Sprout Agritech nurtures its crop of food and farm startups
Emily Parker and Matt Nicholson of Bontia Bio, a Sprout Agritech investment. (Image: Supplied/BusinessDesk)
Greg Hurrell
Sprout Agritech’s chief executive officer, Sandhya Sriram, was working in Thailand when she got the call to move to Palmerston North last year.Her organisation fills a dual role as an early investor and mentor/accelerator in New Zealand’s agritech and foodtech sectors.Another organisation in the startup sector has told BusinessDesk that Sprout has the agritech space so well covered that it prefers to concentrate on other sectors.Sriram is a stem cell scientist, turned entrepreneur, turned investor. She had been in Thailand for aroun...

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