Liquidator finds faults on both sides of RipeTime meltdown, reports potential law breaches to Companies Office 7 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read RipeTime was founded in 2016 and aimed to revolutionise quality control of the global fruit supply chain. Photo / 123rf Allegations that Kiwi intellectual property ended up in Australia after a bitter falling out between founders and funders of failed horticulture analytics start-up RipeTime have been quashed after a liquidator's investigation. RipeTime administrator/liquidator Conor McElhinney of McGrathNicol told the Herald last year that his investigation into the July collapse of RipeTime in a welter of infighting included probing allegations by a former director that a company registered in Australia, or other parties, "may have misappropriated RipeTime's intellectual property and other assets".