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Everyone in the network, clustered into their Loop. Follow a colour through the Loop Bar — blue with blue, green with green — or search by keyword, product or ask.

14 founders across 7 Loops · see them on the map

Land & Food · 2Sea & Water · 2Environment & Air · 2Built Environment · 1Technology & Digital · 2People & Culture · 2Manufacturing & Circular Economy · 3

Land & Food Loop

2 founders in this Loop

Soil, farming, food, native plants, biodiversity and land restoration.

F4F04Jarrah Williams

The work

Country First Land Care

What I'm fixing

Value walking off Country in an unmarked box.

How I'm fixing it

Building the processing and the brand where the plants actually grow.

The innovation

A grower network with shared nursery stock, shared drying capacity and a single traceable supply line to market.

Native foodsRegenerative farmingFirst Nations enterpriseSeed & nursery

Stage

Trading

Current focus

A shared drying facility and getting three products retail-ready.

Looking for

  • Traceability tech
  • Drying capacity
  • Retail partners

Can offer

Native ingredient supply · Nursery stock · On-Country trials

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F4F07Ellie Nguyen

The work

Second Round Spirits

What I'm fixing

Perfectly good fruit rotting because it looked wrong.

How I'm fixing it

Buying the reject bin and bottling it.

The innovation

A small-batch distillery built around rejected fruit and native botanicals, contracted direct with growers.

Food processingNative foodsWaste to productDesign & story

Stage

Trading

Current focus

A native botanical release and a southern distribution deal.

Looking for

  • Distribution
  • Shared freight
  • Retail and event slots

Can offer

Product for showcase · Small-batch production runs · Label and story design

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Sea & Water Loop

2 founders in this Loop

Oceans, reefs, wetlands, waterways, water conservation and marine life.

F4F02Danny O'Brien

The work

Reef Fibre Co.

What I'm fixing

Nutrient going into the reef instead of into something useful.

How I'm fixing it

Farming the water column so the runoff becomes a crop.

The innovation

Nearshore seaweed lines that strip nutrient and produce two saleable outputs: cattle feed additive and a raw fibre for materials.

SeaweedAquacultureReef restorationNew materials

Stage

Pilot

Current focus

Second pilot line and a fibre trial with a manufacturing partner.

Looking for

  • Materials partner
  • Processing capacity
  • Offtake buyers

Can offer

Raw seaweed fibre · Water quality data · Marine permitting experience

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F4F09Hannah Boyd

The work

Catchment Collective

What I'm fixing

A water argument with no shared evidence.

How I'm fixing it

Putting the measuring in the hands of the people being measured.

The innovation

Landholder-owned sensor network plus a repair program the community actually designs.

Catchment healthWater captureMonitoring & sensingCommunity

Stage

Pilot

Current focus

Twenty sensor sites and a public dashboard.

Looking for

  • Low-cost sensors
  • Data platform
  • Multi-year funders

Can offer

Landholder network · Field sites · Community engagement

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Environment & Air Loop

2 founders in this Loop

Air quality, pollution, conservation, energy, emissions and climate resilience.

F4F06Tom Hale

The work

Dry Tropics Energy

What I'm fixing

The most expensive, least reliable power going to the people growing food.

How I'm fixing it

Putting generation and storage where the load already is.

The innovation

Containerised solar-plus-storage microgrids with a shared monitoring layer across sites.

RenewablesMonitoring & sensingCarbon & offsetsHardware & IoT

Stage

Scaling

Current focus

Nine sites live, chasing a council-scale tender with partners.

Looking for

  • Finance partners
  • Installation capacity
  • Tender consortium members

Can offer

Energy modelling · Site monitoring data · Tender partnering

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F4F12Owen Fitzgerald

The work

Savanna Carbon

What I'm fixing

Carbon projects that tick a box and change nothing on the ground.

How I'm fixing it

Stacking outcomes and paying the landholder properly.

The innovation

Stacked carbon-and-biodiversity projects with transparent grazier revenue share and remote-sensed verification.

Carbon & offsetsBiodiversityHabitat restorationData & AI

Stage

Scaling

Current focus

Two stacked projects into verification.

Looking for

  • Remote sensing partner
  • Bridging finance
  • Premium buyers

Can offer

Land access at scale · Carbon methodology know-how · Baseline datasets

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Built Environment Loop

1 founder in this Loop

Housing, architecture, construction, infrastructure and resilient places.

F4F01Sara Cole

What I'm fixing

Buildings that cost the earth twice — once in carbon, once in landfill.

How I'm fixing it

Designing a building system out of the waste we already have, made by people who already live here.

The innovation

Modulus: a modular building system made from locally recovered waste streams, designed for disassembly so every component has a second life. Future plans integrate ASH (Adaptive Smart Habitat) — a platform for thousands of buildings that prepares and protects inhabitants and keeps a digital building record.

New materialsBuilding systemsWaste to productDesign & story

Stage

Pilot

Current focus

Getting Modulus wall panels through structural testing and into the first GRaB Eco Park pavilion, then integrating ASH as a digital building record.

Looking for

  • Manufacturing partners in Australia
  • Investors
  • Developers

Can offer

Showcase space at GRaB Eco Park · Material and product design · Prototyping and CAD

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Technology & Digital Loop

2 founders in this Loop

AI, apps, software, data, sensors, drones and digital platforms.

F4F05Priya Raman

The work

Ledger Leaf

What I'm fixing

Good stories that can't be proven.

How I'm fixing it

Making provenance cheap enough that the smallest producer can use it.

The innovation

A lightweight batch-level traceability layer with a QR story page, priced per batch instead of per seat.

TraceabilitySoftwareData & AIMarketplaces

Stage

Pilot

Current focus

Ten producer pilots and a buyer-side dashboard.

Looking for

  • Producer design partners
  • Retail champion
  • Grant co-applicants

Can offer

Free pilot accounts · Data and reporting · QR story pages

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F4F10Marcus Webb

The work

Bower Robotics

What I'm fixing

Work that has to happen and nobody left to do it.

How I'm fixing it

Small, cheap, repairable robots instead of one giant machine.

The innovation

A low-cost autonomous platform with swappable tool heads, built and serviced regionally.

RoboticsHardware & IoTSoftwareMonitoring & sensing

Stage

Prototype

Current focus

Unattended runs on two trial properties.

Looking for

  • Trial sites
  • Fabrication capacity
  • Hardware co-founder

Can offer

Field data capture · Automation design · Prototype platform

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People & Culture Loop

2 founders in this Loop

Health, education, community, arts, First Nations knowledge and storytelling.

F4F11Rita Alvarez

The work

Tropic Repair Hub

What I'm fixing

A throwaway habit and no one left who can fix anything.

How I'm fixing it

Making repair social, then making it a job.

The innovation

A repair café that doubles as a recognised skills pathway into local manufacturing.

EducationRepair & reuseCommunityHealth & wellbeing

Stage

Trading

Current focus

Turning the pathway into recognised training with employer partners.

Looking for

  • Permanent venue
  • Employers
  • Recurring funding

Can offer

Trained participants · Workshop programs · Community reach

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F4F14Leah Crawford

The work

Northern Trails Co.

What I'm fixing

A coach that drives through town without stopping.

How I'm fixing it

Building the trip out of the town instead of around it.

The innovation

Multi-day itineraries built entirely from small local operators, with revenue split published up front.

TourismCommunityDesign & storyFirst Nations enterprise

Stage

Trading

Current focus

Two new routes and a producer stall program.

Looking for

  • Local operators
  • Booking tech
  • Producer partners

Can offer

Route to market for products · Visitor demand · Story and content

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Manufacturing & Circular Economy Loop

3 founders in this Loop

Materials, products, manufacturing, repair, reuse, recycling and circular design.

F4F03Mei Tanaka

The work

Northline Mycelium

What I'm fixing

Polystyrene in a region drowning in perfectly good crop waste.

How I'm fixing it

Letting fungus do the manufacturing.

The innovation

Mycelium composite grown on regional crop waste, moulded into packaging and acoustic panels.

New materialsWaste to productPackagingLocal manufacturing

Stage

Trading

Current focus

First construction-grade panel trial and a produce-exporter contract.

Looking for

  • Construction co-development partner
  • Volume buyers
  • Facility space

Can offer

Moulded packaging runs · Grow-room know-how · Waste stream processing

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F4F08Kofi Mensah

The work

Loop Metals

What I'm fixing

Whole machines binned over one broken part.

How I'm fixing it

Keeping the making capacity in the region.

The innovation

A shared remanufacturing workshop with reverse-engineering and short-run fabrication for other founders.

Local manufacturingRepair & reuseWaste to productBuilding systems

Stage

Trading

Current focus

Filling machine time with member prototyping work.

Looking for

  • Apprentices
  • Equipment finance
  • Steady short-run clients

Can offer

Short-run fabrication · Reverse engineering · Workshop access

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F4F13Aisha Karim

The work

Wet Season Textiles

What I'm fixing

Fibre burnt in a paddock while we import fabric.

How I'm fixing it

Small, local processing instead of one giant mill.

The innovation

A small-scale decortication and non-woven line turning crop waste into fibre, board and textile.

New materialsWaste to productPackagingDesign & story

Stage

Prototype

Current focus

A consistent fibre spec and three product trials.

Looking for

  • Processing equipment
  • Spinning partner
  • Product designers

Can offer

Raw and processed fibre · Material samples · Waste stream access

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