The Google for India Digitization Fund will invest in equity fundings, partnerships, and infrastructure in ag, health, and education, among other areas.
GROW’s first Singapore Food Bowl cohort specializes in areas including urban farming, ‘clean meat’ production, and food waste valorization.
The Singapore-based startup has developed an “essentially 100% mechanical” process to improve upon traditional jackfruit-based meat substitutes.
Perfect Day, a Californian startup using plants and fermentation techniques to manufacture animal-free dairy products, has expanded its Series C round to $300 million. Hawk
Two of Asia’s highest-funded alt-protein startups have joined forces to bring cultured, cellular ag-grown seafood to the masses.
PuduTech and Meituan Dianping will collaborate on robotics and catering digitization, and explore opportunities in “localized lifestyle services.”
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.
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For the first time, home cooks in China will be able to purchase Beyond Meat’s plant-based products off the shelf, starting with Alibaba’s ‘new retail’ supermarket chain Freshippo.
Shiok Meats has just raised another $3 million in bridge funding as it sets its sights on commercialization of its cultured seafood products.
Between them, Singapore and Indonesia raised over five times the funding of all the other ASEAN countries put together.
Koh Poh Koon, the country’s senior minister for trade and industry, unveiled the grant scheme while visiting local indoor farming startup Singrow.
TurtleTree Labs has managed to reduce the price of its bioreactor cultured milk from $180 per liter last December to $30 per liter today.
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Early Twitter and Uber backer Chris Sacca’s firm also invested in Australia’s Soil Carbon Co, which is developing a microbe-mediated method to sequester carbon.
Agriculture secretary Sanjay Agarwal told AFN in an interview that India’s new farmer laws are a boost for smallholders and tech entreprenuers alike.
The Good Food Institute Asia-Pacific has also named who it believes to be the top 35 alt-protein investors in the region, and calls for more upstream focus on areas like raw materials.
Moving towards more climate-resilient agriculture and food production was already imperative for India. The Covid-19 pandemic has made it even more urgent.
It’s the Singapore-based agribusiness’s third sustainability loan, and follows its $176 million financing last month for digitalizing the smallholder economy.
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