Agnition Ventures
- Type
- Finance provider / Investor
- Location
- Hornby, New Zealand
- Industries
- Crop / plant science, Farm input, Farm management & precision farming, Carbon sequestration, Soil health
- Technologies
- Smart & digital, Platform technology, Platform & Service technologies
About Agnition Ventures
Agnition is an AgTech venture and innovation platform focused on finding, building, and investing in practical solutions for agriculture. It positions itself at the intersection of science, business, and on-farm benefit, with a clear emphasis on helping farmers and growers adopt useful technologies faster.
The company says its work is aimed at solving real-world challenges in the ag sector, especially those tied to environmental, regulatory, financial, and societal pressures. It builds on Ravensdown’s long heritage in farming and serves farmers, growers, and the wider primary industries ecosystem in New Zealand.
Core Values
- Practical impact: Agnition focuses on solutions that can be tested, adopted, and used on farm, rather than ideas that remain purely theoretical.
- Sustainability: A recurring theme is helping agriculture reduce environmental impacts while maintaining productivity and long-term viability.
- Partnership: The company emphasizes collaboration with farmers, growers, innovators, and sector partners to move ideas from concept to field use.
- Science-led innovation: Agnition looks for ventures that combine scientific credibility with business viability and clear on-farm benefits.
Unique Aspects
- Backed by Ravensdown heritage: Agnition builds on Ravensdown’s more than 40-year legacy in smarter farming and says it helps more than 15,000 farmers reduce environmental impacts and optimise land value.
- Pilot Farm Network reach: The company says it has deep partnerships with roughly half of Aotearoa New Zealand’s farmers and growers, giving it a strong platform for testing and scaling innovations.
- Clear sector focus: Its stated verticals are soil health and nutrient management in the ag sector, giving it a focused innovation mandate.
- Portfolio of applied AgTech ventures: Its portfolio includes tools and businesses spanning soil intelligence, pasture management, carbon mapping, effluent treatment, and farm productivity.
- National-scale adoption pathway: Agnition says it can rapidly test innovations on pilot farms and then scale them to national level through its network and relationships.