Business scouts seek the next winning agri-businessDAVID UNWIN/ FAIRFAX NZ Sprout success story Ben Neal from CalfSMART shows off a calf rearing system. The agritech business "accelerator" will give eight agriculture-inspired businesses $20,000. Sprout business strategy advisor Stu Bradbury said Sprout wanted to help entrepreneurs grow their start-ups from great ideas into investment-ready and early stage companies. We've addressed this with the Sprout programme and are happy to report that our first group of eight alumni all experienced strong business growth as a result." The Sprout accelerator programme was designed by Building Better Companies (BCC) a Palmerston North-based business incubator.

Source: Stuff July 15, 2016 01:41 UTC