Starting next week, NURTURE by GROW will feature talks from Asia-Pacific thought leaders on tech’s role in creating a more secure and sustainable food system.
Focused on food resilience, sustainability, and health, Pivot East will help UK and EU startups test-run their entry into Asia Pacific using Singapore as a springboard.
Indian actors Genelia and Riteish Deshmukh launched Imagine Meats with Good Food Institute and Archer Daniels Midland support, marking the latest celebrity foray into agrifoodtech in recent months.
The year 2019 was a breakout year for Latin American agrifoodtech and 2020 is already shaping up to beat those records, in spite of the global pandemic. Here’s a look at the key categories pushing the industry forward.
Oatly’s new celebrity backers are becoming seasoned agrifood investors, with the Swedish alt-milk maker just the latest bet they’ve made in the space.
Infrastructure, crop cultivation, and logistics and distribution are set to be the leading areas for funding in the years ahead, says East Ventures partner Melisa Irene.
Singapore Economic Development Board’s John Eng says the city-state’s “unique” ecosystem of agrifood corporates and startups is winning investors over.
Goterra is an on-site food waste management technology and service that disposes of waste via modular insect farms.
Singapore Food Bowl is the new online program from GROW, the Asia-Pacific agrifoodtech accelerator by AgFunder. Applications close in 4 days – so hurry!
GROW becomes an accredited mentor partner for the Singapore government program, while launching its ‘Pre Accelerator’ for “very early stage” startups.
As investors seek diversity in order to weather the storms ahead, now, more than ever, FoodTech stands out for its value, its strength, its opportunities and the benefits it brings, writes PeakBridge Partners.
Here’s a list of the top 20 deals in the Agribusiness Marketplace category. Six involved Chinese companies. Indian and Japanese startups also closed big rounds.
As US agri-foodtech investment slowed slightly in 2019, other markets picked up the slack. Here’s a list of the leading deals outside the US.
there are a few ways to interpret this $19.8 billion figure. Though it signals a 4.8% drop in funding and 15% decline in deal activity year-over-year, it also represents a staggering 250% growth in five years, and proves that the huge scale of investments in 2018 was no freak outlier.
The truce in the US-China trade war came just in time for the Chinese New Year of the Rat.Â
With Idea2Scale, we conducted a survey of 50 global venture capital firms that invest in foodtech and agtech and asked them about the categories and geographies they were most excited about as well as the key challenges to investing in the sector.
We caught up with Lee ahead of the Rethink Agrifood Innovation Week in Singapore later this month to find about how Singapore is positioning itself as an agri-foodtech hub in Asia and globally.
EFKO Group is well known from Moscow to Vladivostok for its sunflower oils, milk products, margarine, and ketchup.
One of the world’s largest dairy companies, FrieslandCampina, has tapped Norwegian company Kezzler to provide global traceability services for its top baby formula brand, FRISO.Â
From giving farmers access to their padi on their iPads, to taking the carb out of rice. Here’s five rice tech startups in Asia you need to know.
