Agronomeye's journey is rooted in listening
In 2015 co-founders, Tim Howell and Stu Adam, saw an opportunity: empower farmers with data-driven insights. Initially, they explored drone-captured imagery. But the vastness of Australian farms demanded a broader view. A pivotal moment arrived at a pub in Trangie, where conversations with farmers revealed the need for a comprehensive understanding of their land, insights that could drive sustainable practices and long-term profitability. This sparked a paradigm shift.
Agronomeye pivoted towards high-resolution LiDAR data captured from aeroplanes, offering unparalleled detail. But data alone wasn’t enough. So, AgTwin™ was born – a digital twin platform fuelled by curiosity and unwavering commitment to actionable insights.
Since then, Agronomeye has been recognised as a finalist in the KPMG Nature Positive Challenge, partnered with industry leaders such as CSIRO and Microsoft, and secured projects mapping vast carbon farming landscapes and entire states. But through it all, we hold true our original philosophy: start by listening to farmers to deliver actionable insights for profitable, sustainable, and resilient farming.
Innovation fuelled by collaboration: that’s the Agronomeye story, and it’s just getting started.
Vision
Every farmer will have access to a digital twin, so that they can unlock value & remove risk from their operations
Mission
Our mission is to utilise top-tier data alongside digital twin technology to provide meaningful solutions for farmers’ most important questions.
Values
- Our promise is to deliver accuracy, insight & integrity
- We take a Farmer First approach to everything we do.
NSW Accelerating Commercialisation Grant
Agronomeye is a major recipient of the prestigious NSW Accelerating Commercialisation Grant – recognition of the progress made on Agronomeye’s technology and potential to expand locally and beyond.
2023Major projects commence
Long-tern partnerships signed with: respected Natural Capital and Carbon project developers, RegenCo; aerial data capture ASX, Aerometrex; and digital ground mapping organisation Virtual Tas, deliver the assurance of long-term revenue.
2023Agronomeye receives major funding from Canva founder
The $3m investment allows Agronomeye to initiate scaling of its operations.
2022KPMG Nature Positive Challenge
Agronomeye is a finalist in the KPMG Nature Positive Challenge.
2022CSIRO & Microsoft partnership
Agronomeye collaborates with CSIRO to develop an advanced water flow prediction model.
Concurrently the Agronomeye platform, AgTwin v1, is used in a joint collaboration with Microsoft’s FarmBeats and CSIRO’s test farm, Boorowa Agricultural Research Station.
2020Concept testing with drones
Early research focuses on data capture via drones and building the hardware and software to provide crop health metrics. A conversion tool was developed with UNSW to enable the collected data to be delivered in accurate and actionable imagery to drive decision making regarding the land’s natural capital.
2017First drone flight
Trangie, after in-depth conversations with a group of local farmers
2017Company Founded
Pilot Tim Howell and Media journalist Stu Adam initially started Alicante Media, based on their shared interested in unmanned aircraft and the possibilities of digital media.
2015Our Staff
Stu Adam
CEO & Co-Founder
Co-founding Agronomeye in 2015 Stu is leading Agronomeye through a rapid growth phase as the result of an increased focus on nature positive agriculture.
Demonstrated ability to build innovative solutions through design thinking while effectively communicating the Agronomeye vision with a broad range of collaborators and established industry stakeholders to produce agriculture’s first digital twin.
Stu is a trained journalist and creative producer.
Tim Howell
Sales/BD & Co-Founder
Formerly a commercial airline pilot with Qantas, Tim brings valuable insights related to broadscale data capture, working closely with a range of commercial and established family operations to successfully drive early stage adoption at Agronomeye.
Wearing many hats across the five years of Agronomeye’s existence Tim has ensured corporate governance at all levels while developing, fostering and maintaining relationships with the farming sector, investors and industry partners.
Peter Delahunty
CTO
Long term entrepreneurial software engineer (product developer) with expertise in building large mobile and web applications across sectors ranging from banking, government, boutique agencies and startups.
Most recently a senior engineer at Siteminder, spending
7 years building instrumental products which have driven the company valuations past $1bn ahead of an expected IPO in 2022. A serial technical entrepreneur accepted in Silicon Valleys Y-Combinator W12 batch. Pete graduated Sheffield Hallam University with first class honours
Angus Cameron
Director & Investor Relations
Angus spent a decade within CBA and Westpac, in roles focused on liquid markets and alternatives. From 2014 he began working with a single family office, becoming a full time role from 2016, developing global risk structure and portfolio allocation models using a mix of quantitative and behavioural analysis.
Angus holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) from Macquarie University, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), an Accredited Derivatives Advisor (ADA2) with a Diploma in Hedge Funds from the London Commercial School of Management.
Prof Lalit Kumar
Head of Geospatial
Ranked by Reuters in the top 1000 most influential climate change scientists in 2021, Lalit comes to Agronomeye off a stellar academic career with more than 500 publications and 13000 citations.
Over 30 years’ experience in the application of big data (satellite and geospatial) for environmental monitoring, change detection, precision agriculture, and to climate change related modeling and impacts at broad scales.
Sahaja Reddy Muppidi
GIS Lead
Sahaja brings over six years of experience in geospatial data science and project management to her role at Agronomeye, where she specializes in automating and streamlining geospatial processes. Her expertise includes developing scripts and implementing QA/QC procedures, skills honed through diverse roles in non-profit organizations, startups, and academic institutions,particularly in the environmental and research sectors. Sahaja holds a Masters in City Analytics from UNSW and has a background in Urban and Regional Planning.
LinkedInLily Swift
Head of Marketing
Lily brings 20 years of marketing experience from leading blue-chip organisations and, more recently,
for small businesses, start-ups and purpose-led organisations. She has a broad knowledge across branding, product management, consumer and digital marketing, as well as the commercial and operational understanding developed with leading cross functional teams in global businesses. Lily holds an MBA with first class honors. She and her husband, also have a small farming operation in the Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia.
Dr Matthew Cahill
R&D Manager
R&D Leader with a demonstrated history of working across agricultural sciences in Australia and Europe. Skilled in Business Planning, Field Research, Agronomy, Regulatory Sciences and Agribusiness.
Strong research professional with a BScAg from UNE Armidale, MPhil and PhD from Trinity Hall Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. Experience in government, academia and corporate.
Matt runs cattle near Tamworth.
Simon Butler
Sustainable Supply Chains
A sustainability strategist working with organizations
to drive change via innovative solutions, Simon is an expert in linking sustainable development opportunities within a supply chain to enable upstream value.
10 years of experience working with organizations
in agriculture, food production, textiles and energy
to create strategies, build partnerships and develop customized solutions that have positive environmental, social and financial impact.
John Blanch
Natural Capital Metrics
John has over 15 years experience advising Commonwealth and Governments, not-for-profit and private organisations on bulk mineral and agricultural commodity forecasting, climate change policy and UNFCCC negotiations, natural capital, biodiversity and agriculture.
John has previously worked for the Australian Treasury, Fed Dept of Climate Change, the Climate Change Authority, the Natural Resources Commission, and NSW Senator.
John also farms merino sheep in NSW.
The Farmer’s View
The Agronomeye team’s enthusiasm is matched only by the speed at which they produce high quality insights. I’m absolutely spoiled to have access to such a powerful platform and skilled team.
Andrew Wenzel
Farm manager at the Quoin
The Farmer’s View
The Agronomeye team’s enthusiasm is matched only by the speed at which they produce high quality insights. I’m absolutely spoiled to have access to such a powerful platform and skilled team.
Andrew Wenzel
Farm manager at the Quoin
The Farmer’s View
The Agronomeye team’s enthusiasm is matched only by the speed at which they produce high quality insights. I’m absolutely spoiled to have access to such a powerful platform and skilled team.
Andrew Wenzel
Farm manager at the Quoin
The Farmer’s View
The Agronomeye team’s enthusiasm is matched only by the speed at which they produce high quality insights. I’m absolutely spoiled to have access to such a powerful platform and skilled team.