We scout innovations
We accelerate your success. Together, we cultivate ideas.

Innovationplatform

The Agro Innovation Lab takes an active part in shaping the future of agriculture. Our mission is to foster and implement new technologies or strategies that increase efficiency, conserve resources, or significantly improve the lives of farmers and consumers.

The Agro Innovation Lab was founded in 2016 as the innovation platform of RWA and the Lagerhaus cooperatives, one of Europe’s biggest players in Agriculture. We see ourselves as trend scout, accelerator, networker, mentor, unconventional think tank, knowledge carrier, partner, and facilitator – unified in our goal to play an active part in shaping the future of agriculture through innovation.

Our manifold activities conjoin AgTech with conventional agricultural technology, merging the expertise of traditional agriculture with the possibilities of digitization, thus building a network of research, development, entrepreneurship, investors, and the market.

Scouting, Evaluation and Implementation

Scouting Innovation

We’ve got the finger on the pulse of agricultural innovation. Scouting and tracking trends in agriculture, we are constantly on the lookout for groundbreaking ideas to meet the growing challenges with new solutions.

Collaboration with well-established enterprises and StartUps

Accelerating Success

We’re letting StartUps blossom. With tailor-made support through know-how transfer, market access, financing, and precisely those services and resources that facilitate rapid development.

to Acceleration & Market Entry Program

Cultivating Ideas

We support promising innovative companies in implementing their business models. Innovation projects can be implemented with StartUps or established companies, in cooperation with RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG and Lagerhaus cooperatives.

In direct cooperation with RWA and the Lagerhaus cooperatives, startups are given the unique opportunity to come into contact with selected partners and investors, receive individual mentoring and coaching, as well as access to a global market, decades of experience, a comprehensive pool of expertise and our international partner network.

With our mentoring program, we provide our StartUps with internal and external experts, and our broad network with a focus on sales, development, financing, science, politics, and the StartUp scene offers excellent development opportunities.

We can only perform with modern industry and StartUps can be a bridge to these new technologies.

Reinhard Wolf, CEO RWA Raiffeisen Ware AG

Our Mentors

Our pool of mentors consists of specialists from internal departments, agricultural practitioners, and scientific experts as well as political and entrepreneurial leaders, founders, and innovators. All our mentors are highly motivated to pass on their experience and knowledge to our StartUps.

Otto Auer 
Parlament Österreich
Bundesrat

Martin Bittner
Acccoi Partners GmbH
Partner

Daniel Cronin
AustrianStartups
Co-Founder and Member of the Board

Reinhard Eder
HBLA und Bundesamt für Wein- und Obstbau, Klosterneuburg
Hofrat, Direktor

Oliver Eisenhöld
WAV Wärme Austria
Geschäftsführer

Pia Euteneuer
BOKU
Deputy of the experimental station

Helmut Grabher
Agromed
CEO

Michael Gross
Biohelp
Geschäftsführer

Georg Gruber
Raiffeisen Campus
CEO

Maximilian Hiegelsberger
Councilor Upper Austria
Member of the Government, responsible for agriculutre and municipalities

Werner Hoffmann
WU – Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien/Contrast EY Management Consulting
Leiter Strategie Institut/Consultant

Florian Kandler
GetFunding.how
Fundraising Expert and Startup Mentor

Daniel Kapp
Kapp | Hebein | Partner
Managing Partner

Stefan Kreppel
Palfinger Group
Head of Open Innovation

Christoph Mader
LLT

Stefan Mayerhofer
RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG
Member of the Board

Hans Mayrhofer
Ökosoziales Forum
Generalsekretär

Andreas Pangl
Austrian Raiffeisen Association

Ingrid Peraus
RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG
Head of Logistics

Stefan Pernkopf
Ökosoziales Forum
Präsident

Christoph Pesl
RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG
Head of Marketing Agriculture

Thomas Plötzeneder
GehrerPlötzeneder Consulting
CEO & Founder

Günter Purkhauser
PARGA Park- und Gartentechnik Ges.m.b.H.
CEO

Justus Reichl
Austrian Raiffeisen Association
Secretary-General Deputy and Head of the Department of Competence Center Cooperative

Stephanie Reimann
LAGERHAUS e-SERVICE GMBH
CEO

Roman Rericha
Brandl & Talos Attorneys
Partner

Josef Rosner
Amt der NÖ Landesregierung
Landesgüterdirektor

Walter Rothensteiner
Raiffeisenverbandes Österreich
Generalanwalt

Franz Salzmann
Speedinvest Venture
Partner

Johannes Steiner
LAGERHAUS e-SERVICE GMBH
Head of Digital

Armin Sterlé
RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG
Head of Corporate and Business Development

Hannes Stiebitzhofer
S1Seven GmbH
CTO

Philippe Thiltges
What a Venture
Co-Founder, Business Development & Strategy

Georg Wagner
Spiritdesign
CEO & Founder

Heinrich Prankl
BLT Wieselburg
Leiter Forschung & Innovation

Edwin Vorhemus
Lagerhaus Hollabrunn-Horn
CEO

Kurt Weinberger
Österreichische Hagelversicherung
CEO

Thomas Werner
Acccoi Partners GmbH
Partner

Adrian Zettl-Singh
TheVentury GmbH
Founder & Marketing Venturer

Our Partners

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