Fraser Smith Email & Phone Number

Waikato, New Zealand

Farmshed Labs is a New Zealand team bringing proven technology solutions from left field to address large and valuable issues in farming through partnering with market-leaders.Our focus is solving on-farm challenges. In particular, we excel at the interface between animals and existing on-farm systems. We bridge this gap with novel technologies, engineered to deliver in challenging environments.Farmshed Labs is finalising low-cost electronic diagnostic and automation technology. Several other technologies are in the late stages of evaluation and licensing with partners.

New Zealand

Waikato

Business Development for a New Zealand Animal Health Company based on opportunties from New Zealand and US research and diagnostic platforms. Product opportunities include natural products, diagnostics and new chemical entities for animal health targets. Partnership/co-development approach to comercialisation to bring early revenues and quickly scale opportunities.

Commercialisation of intellectual property arising from Universities, Crown Research Institutes and the private sector.

A retail technology that boosts revenue generation on unattended petrol forecourts by permitting the sale of high margin goods while maintaining security of both goods and transactions. ProvisionBox has essentially developed a package for multi product format vending with the smarts being in the transaction technology via the amalgamation and redevelopment of technologies proven in other existing markets.

From 2002-2006 one of nine Investment Managers responsible for due diligence for the New Zealand Government’s investment of US$40,000,000 per annum targeting the development of high value, high-margin, technology-based intellectual property.

Msc, Biology, Limnology

Bsc, Human Biology, Zoology, Genetics, Environmental & Earth Science, Politics

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