Precision Ag Knowledge Transfer – the journey of one AgTech startup, FluroSat

Venues	Local Time
Adelaide　Waite Campus – B101-FG-R00-BoardWICWest	12:00 pm
Armidale – B55-FG-R00-Small	12:30 pm
Bribie Island – B01-FG-Small	11:30 am
Brisbane　St Lucia QBP – Room 3.323	11:30 am
Canberra　Black Mountain – Discovery Lecture Theatre	12:30 pm
Irymple (See Natalie Strickland)	12:30 pm
Narrabri – Conference Room	12:30 pm
Perth Floreat B40-F1-R46-Rossiter Room	09:30 am
Sandy Bay (Hobart) – B2-F1-R24 River View Room	12:30 pm
Toowoomba – Media Lab Room	11:30 am
Townsville (see Liz Do)	11:30 am
Werribee (Melbourne) – B01-FG-R02	12:30 pm

Since its founding in November 2016, FluroSat has gone through many iterations and several pivots to become the first AgTech startup to attract the investment of the Microsoft venture arm M12, Cotton RDC and GRDC’s GrainInnovate.

To gain international traction, the team at FluroSat has closely collaborated with researchers at CSIRO. This fruitful collaboration has become a case study, often used by government and CSIRO’s own Main Sequence Ventures. From discovering what agribusinesses want and are ready to pay for, to building product roadmap fully based on research collaborations supported by grants and private funds, the startup seeks to be a trusted partner in accelerating commercialisation of innovation.

In a spirit of knowledge transfer, to share the decisions made and successes achieved together, the team at CSIRO invited Dr Anastasia Volkova, the founder of FluroSat, to share challenges and opportunities discovered by the young business on its journey. 

Bio

Dr Anastasia Volkova founded FluroSat in late 2016, and since then has taken the company through a transformational journey of commercialising agricultural science, raising from leading investors in the space (Microsoft, CSIRO MSEQ, GRDC, CRDC) and scaling into the US market. Dr Volkova’s passion is to make science-based agronomy an industry standard and to foster close collaborations between industry and research.