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| 29.11.2023 | Lightning in a box? Rainstick harnesses electrical fields to grow crops ‘bigger, faster, and more sustainably’ | [Disclosure: Rainstick is in the inaugural cohort of AgFunder’s GROW Future Protein Programme.]
We’ve known for years that electrical storms can boost crop yields, says Rainstick cofounder Mic Black. “But try putting lightning in a box.”
An... |
| 06.11.2023 | 🎥 What makes a great pitch? What raises alarm bells? Agrifoodtech investors weigh in… | What makes a great pitch? At the most basic level, say investors quizzed by AgFunderNews in Singapore last week, entrepreneurs need to identify the problem they are addressing, spell out the market opportunity, and explain why they are best... |
| 25.10.2023 | From emissions to chronic disease, 3 agrifoodtech startups on a mission to improve planetary health | A handheld device linked to smartphones that, with a few drops of milk and in a few minutes, can tell cattle owners if their animals are healthy and whether the quality of milk is up to par. A novel, bioactive food ingredient possessing hea... |
| 09.10.2023 | From on-farm fertilizer production to upcycled coffee grounds to replace alkalized cocoa, two circular economy startups to watch | From sugary wastewater from food production facilities to brewers’ spent grains and used coffee grounds… scores of so-called ‘waste’ streams are now being upcycled into a new generation of products.
On the farm, meanwhile, enterprising star... |
| 02.10.2023 | From indoor agtech to blue food: Startups to watch at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit | 30 startups accelerating the transition to a climate-smart food system will showcase their innovations at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit in Singapore, Oct 31-Nov 2.
Working with the GROW Impact Accelerator, Enterprise Singapor... |
| 21.09.2023 | From salt-tolerant wheat to Robusta coffee that tastes like Arabica, two climate smart startups to watch | Pressure to breed ‘climate smart’ crops—from salt tolerant rice to heat-tolerant tomatoes—is rising as farmers battle rising soil salinity, higher temperatures, and more erratic weather. But traditional crop breeding can take decades to bea... |
| 04.05.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Maple Hill Creamery lands $20m, Michelle Obama’s new food brand, Agrii & Drone Ag team up | This week, organic, regenerative dairy company Maple Hill Creamery announced new funding, as did low-carb bread brand Hero Bread and others. Former First Lady Michelle Obama launched a food and bev brand for children. Agronomy service provi... |
| 03.05.2023 | The AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator announces 2023 cohort of agrifoodtech startups | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.
GROW, the Singapore-based agrifoodtech ecosystem builder backed by agrifoodtech investor AgFunder, has unveiled the 10 startups participating in the 2023 AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator.
The ac... |
| 23.02.2023 | GROW Impact Accelerator invites applications from African agritech startups | The GROW Impact Accelerator is currently accepting applications from agri-tech startups based in Africa.
New foodtech and agtech firms that are attempting to solve some of the world’s most pressing sustainability issues are being given a hu... |
| 22.02.2023 | Brief: Future Fields raises $11.2m to scale up fruit flies for recombinant protein production | [Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Future Fields via the 2019 GROW impact accelerator and its 2022 Alt Protein Fund.]
Canadian startup Future Fields has raised $11.2 million in a seed extension round to scale up ... |
| 27.01.2023 | AgFunder impact fund leads Mayani’s $1.7m seed round to scale Filipino farm and fisheries produce marketplace | Filipino farm and fisheries produce marketplace Mayani has secured $1.7 million in seed funding.
The round was led by AgFunder’s Singapore-based Grow Impact Fund; Mayani participated in the Grow Impact Accelerator in 2021.
Multiple early-st... |
| 11.01.2023 | Apply to the 2023 AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator | Disclosure: AFN is the official media partner to GROW, which is backed by AFN’s parent company AgFunder.
US-based VC firm AgFunder and Singapore-based ecosystem builder GROW are now taking applications for the fourth cohort of their Impact ... |
| 20.10.2022 | Sign up to hear 9 international startups pitch at the GROW Impact Accelerator Demo Day | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, and will run its impact accelerator demo day on November 10.
Nine agrifoodtech startups from across the globe are set to pitch at the third GROW Impact Accelerator Demo Day. Tune... |
| 26.08.2022 | Meet the GROWhort: 3Bee hopes to avert bee-pocalyspe with hive monitoring tech | Disclosure: The GROW Impact Accelerator is backed by AgFunder, AFN’s parent company.
You might not realize it, but we all get a massive buzz off of bees.
For millennia, humans have reared these creatures for their honey, prized for its util... |
| 19.08.2022 | Meet the GROWhort: MYCL posits mycelium as material of the future | Disclosure: The GROW Impact Accelerator is backed by AgFunder, AFN’s parent company.
The production of clothes, footwear, and household textiles is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution. Around 10% of total global e... |
| 12.08.2022 | Meet the GROWhort: LYRO builds produce-packing robots to fix food’s broken supply chains | Disclosure: The GROW Impact Accelerator is backed by AgFunder, AFN’s parent company.
Australia’s LYRO Robotics, a startup building robots and AI for the fresh fruit and vegetable industry, recently raised A$1.5 million ($1.07 million) in se... |
| 05.08.2022 | Meet the GROWhort: Veggie Victory is making animal-free meat alternatives for African palates | Disclosure: The GROW Impact Accelerator is backed by AgFunder, AFN’s parent company.
Africa’s population is predicted to double from 1.3 billion to 2.5 billion by 2050 – the year by which we’re supposed to have limited global heating to 1.5... |
| 29.07.2022 | Meet the GROWhort: Decomer posits plant-based solution to food packaging problem | Disclosure: The GROW Impact Accelerator is backed by AgFunder, AFN’s parent company.
Packaging can help to maintain the freshness and extend the shelf-life of our food, thereby reducing waste. But manufacturing food packaging can cause emis... |
| 22.07.2022 | Tepbac deploys software & IoT to boost Vietnam’s shrimp farming sector | Disclosure: The GROW Impact Accelerator is backed by AgFunder, AFN’s parent company.
Vietnam’s Tepbac is one of the 10 startups selected for the GROW Impact Accelerator 2022: the unique acceleration program run by AgFunder and GROW.
Most sh... |
| 14.07.2022 | Yeap squares food demand & food waste with its protein made from spent yeast | Disclosure: The GROW Impact Accelerator is backed by AgFunder, AFN’s parent company.
Last week, we introduced AFN readers to Nubocha and X-Centric: two of the 10 startups participating in the latest edition of the GROW Impact Accelerator – ... |
| 07.07.2022 | X-Centric is bringing down the time & cost of on-site soil carbon analysis | Disclosure: The GROW Impact Accelerator is backed by AgFunder, AFN’s parent company.
Yesterday we profiled Nubocha, one of 10 companies that are participating in this year’s GROW Impact Accelerator, the annual agrifoodtech startup program b... |
| 06.07.2022 | Nubocha is churning out vegan gelato using sustainable nuts & cacao sourced direct from farmers | Disclosure: The GROW Impact Accelerator is backed by AgFunder, AFN’s parent company.
Back in April, AgFunder and agrifoodtech ecosystem catalyst GROW unveiled the third cohort of their annual GROW Impact Accelerator program. Ten startups fr... |
| 14.04.2022 | Startup Wire | Mind Playing Tricks On Me | Happy Easter everyone. Taro here.
On Friday, I’m taking a trip to Bangkok. It will be the first time for me to travel since February 2020, when I went to New Zealand for a friend’s wedding. The requirements to fly from one country to anothe... |
| 22.03.2022 | GROW unveils market expansion platform for agrifoodtech ventures with Mondelēz & Thai Wah | GROW is an agrifoodtech ecosystem catalyst based in Singapore. It runs the GROW Impact Accelerator in partnership with AFN’s parent company, AgFunder. AFN is GROW’s official media partner.
GROW has introduced its latest effort to help globa... |
| 18.01.2022 | Apply for AgFunder & GROW’s 2022 Impact Accelerator | Disclosure: AFN is official media partner to GROW, which is backed by AFN’s parent company AgFunder.
Silicon Valley VC firm AgFunder and Singapore-based ecosystem builder GROW are accepting applications for the third edition of the GROW Imp... |
| 30.12.2021 | AFN’s top 20 guest articles of 2021 | AFN strives to provide holistic coverage of trends and developments across the agrifoodtech ecosystem; but we on the editorial team wouldn’t be able to do it all by ourselves. We rely on the multitude of expert commentaries, opinion pieces,... |
| 18.11.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Monarch Tractor’s $61m round, JBS’s cell meat bet & Bayer-Microsoft match | This week, The Week in Agrifoodtech includes news of a major strategic partnership between one of the world’s biggest agribusiness companies and one of the world’s biggest software companies; while the world’s number one meat processor made... |
| 17.11.2021 | Addressing the ‘cow in the room’: Applications open for 2022 GROW Impact Accelerator | Disclosure: AFN is official media partner to GROW, which is backed by AFN’s parent company AgFunder.
It is now widely recognized that global food systems are both a key cause of greenhouse gas emissions, and stand to be deeply destabilized ... |
| 04.11.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Nick’s raises $100m; Bezos pledges $2b against climate change | Swedish foodtech company Nick’s, known for its keto-friendly ice cream, brought the biggest funding news of the week with its $100 million Series C round. Meanwhile, Twiga Foods closed a $50 million round while billionaire Amazon founder Je... |
| 02.11.2021 | Indonesia’s Green Rebel adds plant-based cheese to lineup | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Green Rebel.
Alt-protein startup Green Rebel has launched an animal-free cheese product, adding to its existing portfolio of plant-based beef and chicken analogs.
“Dairy cheese i... |
| 20.10.2021 | GROW & Innovate UK launch bespoke program to take British agrifood startups to Asia | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company.
GROW and Innovate UK have selected eight UK-based agrifood companies to participate in the inaugural cohort of the Global Incubator Programme – Gateway to Asia, an inter... |
| 08.10.2021 | Culling 150,000 healthy pigs shouldn’t ‘just happen’ in a functioning food system, Mr Johnson | Last week, the UK’s National Pig Association (NPA) warned that as many as 150,000 healthy pigs could be killed and disposed of amid a chronic shortage of slaughterhouse workers and heavy goods vehicle drivers in the country.
The UK has seen... |
| 06.10.2021 | GROW, Food Futures Co & Austrade select 8 agrifood innovators for new program | Editor’s note: This post was published in partnership with GROW, which is backed by AFN’s parent company, AgFunder.
GROW, Food Futures Company, and the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) have selected eight Australia-base... |
| 09.09.2021 | Meet the GROW grads concocting climate-smart ag solutions with robots & seaweed | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company.
After 20 weeks of workshops, mentoring sessions, and pitching practice, the GROW Impact Accelerator‘s 2021 program has now come to a close. The 10 startups graduating fr... |
| 25.08.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: ZoomAgri raises $3.3m for ‘vision-as-a-service’ food inspection tech | ZoomAgri has raised $3.3 million in a “pre-Series A” round from SP Ventures, Artesian, GrainInnovate, and Glocal, AFN can reveal. This round brings the business’s total funding to $4.75 million.
Headquartered in Spain but mainly operating i... |
| 13.08.2021 | Meet Biteback & Cellular Agriculture: The GROW Impact Accelerator’s food ingredient futurists | According to the UN, food and agriculture account for 70% of global freshwater use, take up 50% of Earth’s habitable land. and produce a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe).
Most of this stems from animal agriculture. Astonishing... |
| 13.08.2021 | Meet Biteback & Cellular Agriculture: The GROW Impact Accelerator’s food ingredient futurists | According to the UN, food and agriculture account for 70% of global freshwater use, take up 50% of Earth’s habitable land and produce a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe).
Most of this stems from animal agriculture. Astonishingl... |
| 03.08.2021 | Join us online for GROW Impact Accelerator Demo Day 2021 | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AFN’s parent company, AgFunder.
After 20 weeks of coaching sessions, mentor networking, customer introductions and pitching practice, the GROW Impact Accelerator is drawing to a close.
It’ll soon be time for De... |
| 02.08.2021 | Innovate UK & GROW launch incubator to help UK agrifood startups scale into Asia Pacific | In a commitment to help UK ag, food, and beverage innovators expand into Asia, Innovate UK and GROW – the Asian agrifoodtech ecosystem catalyst backed by AgFunder – have partnered to launch the Global Incubator Programme – Gateway to Asia w... |
| 29.07.2021 | 5 startups win Japfa innovation challenge to advance protein production in Asia | Disclosure: GROW is an impact-focused agrifoodtech accelerator backed by our parent company, AgFunder.
Japfa and GROW have unveiled the five winners of Japfa Feeds the Future – a global startup challenge aimed at advancing protein productio... |
| 27.07.2021 | Augmentus raises seed funding for its ‘no-code’ robotics system | Disclosure: Augmentus is an alumnus of Singapore Food Bowl, an accelerator program run by our partner organization GROW.
For robotics to drown out the hype and become more mainstream in food, ag, and other industries, it needs to make “fact... |
| 27.07.2021 | BREAKING: Augmentus raises seed funding for its ‘no-code’ robotics system | Disclosure: Augmentus is an alumnus of Singapore Food Bowl, an accelerator program run by our partner organization GROW.
For robotics to drown out the hype and become more mainstream in food, ag, and other industries would require “making f... |
| 21.07.2021 | Midweek Digest: Impossible Foods & Beyond Meat enter chicken race, Swiggy scores billions | AFN‘s Midweek Digest is our weekly roundup of the key headlines in foodtech and agtech over the past seven days, beyond what we’ve already covered in detail. Enjoy!
Swiggy scores $1.25 billion from SoftBank, Prosus in Series J funding (Indi... |
| 16.07.2021 | GROW startups Mayani, Rubilabs & S4S show 3 different ways for tech to uplift smallholder farmers | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company.
Last month we checked in with ANINA Culinary Art, Green Rebel, and Rainfed Foods – three startups in the GROW Impact Accelerator‘s latest batch which are focused on prod... |
| 15.07.2021 | The answer to cell-cultured meat’s biggest conundrum? Fruit flies, says Future Fields | Disclosure: AgFunder (our parent company) is an investor in Future Fields through its GROW Impact Fund.
As is doubtless the case with a lot of great Canadian ideas, the founders of Future Fields came up with theirs while waiting in line at ... |
| 13.07.2021 | Introducing GROW2Asia: A fast-track for Australian agrifood innovators to scale into Asia remotely | In a commitment to help Australian ag, food, and beverage innovators expand into Asia, Food Futures Company and GROW have partnered to launch GROW2Asia with the support of Austrade‘s Landing Pads initiative.
This tripartite collaboration fo... |
| 24.06.2021 | Meet the plant-based pioneers in GROW’s latest Impact cohort: ANINA, Green Rebel & Rainfed | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company.
In May, GROW — the Singapore-based, impact-focused accelerator backed by AgFunder — unveiled the 10 startups that would be joining the latest cohort of its flagship Impa... |
| 16.06.2021 | Brief: Indonesia’s Green Rebel unveils ‘Asia’s first’ plant-based whole cuts | Disclosure: AgFunder (our parent company) has invested in Green Rebel through the GROW Impact Accelerator.
Green Rebel has released what it claims are Asia’s first plant-based protein products that imitate whole-muscle cuts of meat.
The Jak... |
| 09.05.2021 | Meet These 7 Agri-Food Tech Startups Of GROW’s New Female-Led Cohort | 3
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GROW, the AgFunder-backed food and agri-tech focused accelerator, has just welcomed its new cohort of startups set to join its program in Singapore. These startups have been selected for their food chain resilience an... |
| 06.05.2021 | GROW Impact Accelerator launches second cohort to advance new frontiers in food & agriculture | Editor’s note: GROW is an impact-focused agrifoodtech fund and accelerator based in Singapore. It is backed by AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company.
Food lies at the heart of some of our biggest global crises and challenges. It’s estimat... |
| 10.03.2021 | Japfa’s CEO on how the Asian agrifood giant is tackling the Covid-19 crisis | In the 50 years it has been providing Asia with protein, Singapore-headquartered agrifood giant Japfa has faced plenty of challenges.
That means it was well prepared to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic — which emerged in China in late 2019 befo... |
| 18.02.2021 | Singapore launches $45m agritech fund to boost urban food production | The Singapore government will set aside S$60 million ($45.2 million) for the creation of a new fund to help farmers in the city-state harness technology that can boost domestic food production.
Presenting the country’s annual budget in parl... |
| 16.02.2021 | Thai precision ag startup ListenField gets strategic backing from Kubota | ListenField, a Thai precision agritech startup, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Japanese agricultural equipment maker Kubota as part of a wider strategic partnership.
[Disclosure: ListenField is a graduate of GROW‘s Singapo... |
| 10.02.2021 | ForwardFood.Tech’s founder thinks food & ag accelerators are failing. Here’s his alternative | There are many different foodtech accelerators open to startups these days. From university-backed efforts to major consumer goods brands, a variety of stakeholders are hoping to expedite entrepreneurs’ foodtech fantasies – and share in the... |
| 04.02.2021 | 50 years young: Japfa’s CEO on how the agrifood giant is putting trust in tech for its golden anniversary | Japfa is one of the Asia-Pacific region’s largest and longest-established agrifood players. Founded in Surabaya, Indonesia in 1971, the company rapidly grew into one of the top protein producers worldwide.
Fifty years on, a lot has changed.... |
| 01.02.2021 | Japfa Feeds the Future launches to tackle the most pressing issues in Asia’s livestock industry | The difficulties facing the global food and agricultural system are vast: in 2019, there were more than 820 million chronically undernourished people in the world, up from 811 million in the previous year. The Covid-19 pandemic has only com... |
| 19.01.2021 | GROW Impact Accelerator invites applications from startups fostering food sustainability | GROW, the impact venture builder backed by AgFunder, is now accepting applications for its 2021 Impact Accelerator program. This is a unique opportunity for startups operating in new frontiers of foodtech and agtech to supercharge their gro... |
| 06.01.2021 | Biological innovation is key to the economic & environmental sustainability of CEA | Editor’s note: Leonard Lerer is founder and CEO at Back of the Yards Algae Sciences (BYAS), a Chicago, US-based biotech company developing sustainable novel ingredients derived from algae.
BYAS is a graduate of the GROW Impact Accelerator, ... |
| 06.01.2021 | TurtleTree Labs launches B2B unit to develop cost-efficient culture media & growth factors | TurtleTree Labs, a Singaporean startup that’s culturing milk in the lab from animal cells, has launched a B2B business to develop growth factors for the wider cellular agrifood industry.
Dubbed TurtleTree Scientific, the new unit will work ... |
| 28.12.2020 | AFN’s top 20 guest articles in 2020 | As we count down the final few days until 2021, we on the AFN editorial team have been taking some time to look back at what has been a momentous year in agrifoodtech.
Our coverage of this cutting-edge industry wouldn’t be complete if not f... |
| 20.12.2020 | Agrifoodtech firms are flocking to Singapore, with Perfect Day the latest to land | US alt-dairy startup Perfect Day revealed today that it will set up an R&D facility in Singapore, with the city-state’s minister for trade and industry predicting “many other companies” will be joining it to take advantage of the growin... |
| 08.12.2020 | Singapore offers $9m boost to blockchain projects, starting with farmer finance | Singapore has established a S$12 million ($8.97 million) scheme to strengthen its capabilities in blockchain technology – and its first project is focused on farmer finance.
Government agencies Enterprise Singapore, the Infocomm Media Devel... |
| 27.11.2020 | Eat Beyond IPO: ‘We’re making it possible for retail investors to participate in this thriving market’ | Since Beyond Meat took the IPO plunge in May 2019, a slow but steady trickle of alt-protein startups have followed suit and gone public.
Oregon’s Laird Superfood — which makes plant-based coffee creamers and other health-oriented sundries —... |
| 12.10.2020 | Meet 4 Singapore Food Bowl startups who want to revolutionize farming with tech | Over the past few weeks, AFN readers have been introduced to the entrepreneurs participating in Singapore Food Bowl – the food sustainability program run by AgFunder-backed impact fund and accelerator GROW.
[Disclosure: AgFunder is the pare... |
| 08.10.2020 | Join us for Singapore Food Bowl Demo Day | After 12 weeks of coaching sessions, pitching practice, and expert insights, the main part of Singapore Food Bowl — the food sustainability accelerator program run by GROW — has come to a close.
Now it’s time for Demo Day – the chance for t... |
| 05.10.2020 | 3 Singapore Food Bowl startups strengthening the supply chain after Covid-19 | AFN readers got the chance last week to hear from three startups tackling the problem of food waste who are participating in Singapore Food Bowl – the food security and sustainability program run by impact fund and accelerator GROW, and bac... |
| 29.09.2020 | On #FLWDay, meet the Singapore Food Bowl startups tackling Asia Pacific’s food waste problem | Last week, AFN talked to SingCell and Smoocht – two of the innovative foodtech startups participating in Singapore Food Bowl, the food security and sustainability program being run by agrifoodtech impact fund and accelerator GROW.
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| 23.09.2020 | Cutting down food loss and food waste: 3 retail stories | Editor’s note: Ramakrishnan M is vice president of sales and marketing at Intello Labs, New Delhi, India. [Disclosure: Intello Labs graduated from GROW, the agrifoodtech impact accelerator backed by AFN’s parent company AgFunder.]
Over a th... |
| 21.09.2020 | Meet Singapore Food Bowl’s foodtech innovators – SingCell & Smoocht | For the past few weeks, the team at GROW — the agrifoodtech impact fund and accelerator backed by AgFunder — has been busy running Singapore Food Bowl.
The program — supported by government agency Enterprise Singapore and Dole Packaged Food... |
| 11.09.2020 | Farm automation, urban ag & alt-protein will be key to Asia’s food security, says UNDP advisor | Technologies that enable urban agriculture, production of protein from non-animal sources, and farm automation will be critical for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to ensure food security in the near and longer term.
That’s the view of... |
| 27.08.2020 | Tune in to NURTURE, our upcoming series of talks on the future of Asia’s agrifood system | GROW, the agrifoodtech impact accelerator powered by AgFunder, is launching the NURTURE Series – a program of TED-style virtual talks aimed at inspiring entrepreneurs to help shape a more resilient and sustainable food system.
With a focus ... |
| 13.08.2020 | Pivot East: the new program from GROW and Farm491 bringing UK and EU agrifood startups to Asia | GROW, AgFunder’s global impact accelerator, and Farm491 — the agritech incubator and innovation space located at the UK’s Royal Agricultural University — are unveiling a new program to help UK and EU agrifoodtech startups expand into the As... |
| 02.08.2020 | Future Fields is tackling cultured meat’s biggest problem | One possible solution to cellular agriculture’s biggest problem — how to develop a cheap, humane growth material for cultured meat — may have come from a conversation in line at a Tim Hortons in Alberta.
The husband and wife duo of Matt and... |
| 17.07.2020 | 5 ASEAN startups tackling the messy middle of the agrifood value chain | While the bulk of agrifoodtech VC funding in Southeast Asia went to downstream categories in 2019, startups sitting in the middle of the value chain are increasingly attracting interest from investors.
According to AgFunder’s first-ever ASE... |
| 17.07.2020 | These 5 Asian Startups Are Innovating Sustainability Solutions, From Repurposing Waste To Clean Meat | 135 1
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Southeast Asian agri-food tech accelerator GROW’s newly launched Singapore Food Bowl, an accelerator program focused on boosting Singapore’s food security in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, has just unveiled... |
| 13.07.2020 | Meet the 12 startups joining Singapore Food Bowl, GROW’s local food resilience accelerator | GROW, the Southeast Asian agrifood tech accelerator backed by AgFunder, today introduces the 12 startups from across Asia Pacific that will join Singapore Food Bowl – its unique program aimed at building a more resilient, sustainable, and d... |
| 10.06.2020 | Singapore offers $206m Covid-19 boost for startups that “contribute to national priorities” | The investment arms of Enterprise Singapore and the city-state’s Economic Development Board are launching a SG$285 million ($206 million) fund to provide financial support to startups working on “national priorities” such as food security a... |
| 04.06.2020 | Want to build Asia’s new agrifood ecosystem? Apply to Singapore Food Bowl now! | There are just four days left for Asia-Pacific startups to submit their applications to join Singapore Food Bowl – the new, 100%-online program offered by GROW, the Southeast Asian agrifoodtech accelerator backed by AgFunder.
Apply here now... |
| 02.06.2020 | Why AgFunder invested in Singrow | Editor’s Note: Michael Dean is founding partner of global agri-foodtech VC AgFunder, which recently invested in Singapore-based Singrow, a vertical farming startup. All views expressed are his own and not of AFN’s editor or team of journali... |
| 21.05.2020 | Singapore food and housing agencies to rent out public rooftops for urban farms | The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has launched a public tender to lease out the rooftops of public buildings for urban farming in the city-state.
Rooftops of nine multi-storey car parks managed by the Housing & Development Board (HDB) – S... |
| 21.05.2020 | Singapore Food Bowl: AgFunder-Backed GROW Accelerator Debuts Food Security Program | 5
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Southeast Asian agri-food tech accelerator GROW has recently launched a new program focused on boosting Singapore’s food security. Startups across Asia working on climate-resilient, decentralised and sustainable food ... |
| 16.05.2020 | GROW launches Singapore Food Bowl to build a resilient, decentralized agrifood system | GROW – the Southeast Asian agrifoodtech accelerator by AgFunder – is inviting startups from across the Asia-Pacific region to apply for its new program focused on food security: Singapore Food Bowl.
With the initial support of Enterprise Si... |
| 13.05.2020 | Food quality startup Intello Labs closes $5.9m Series A round from AgFunder’s GROW, others | India’s Intello Labs has secured ₹450 million ($5.9 million) in Series A funding. Saama Capital led the round, with AgFunder‘s GROW Impact Fund, Omnivore, Nexus Venture Partners, and SVG Ventures Thrive joining in. [Disclosure: AgFunder is ... |
| 08.05.2020 | Q&A: How is Covid-19 impacting fresh produce businesses globally? | Editor’s note: Tanmay Bhargava is head of Asia Pacific at Intello Labs. Based in Gurugram, India, Intello Labs uses machine learning tech to grade the quality of agricultural produce. Intello Labs is a member of the first cohort of GROW, Ag... |
| 04.05.2020 | GROW partners Singapore’s Startup SG Founder program and launches Asia pre-accelerator | AgFunder‘s agrifoodtech accelerator GROW has been named as an accredited mentor partner (AMP) for the early-stage investment and mentoring scheme under Singapore’s startup promotion initiative, Startup SG. The announcement comes as GROW lau... |
| 26.03.2020 | AgFunder, GROW, and UN Development Programme team up to align tech with impact in agrifood | Editor’s Note: Based in Singapore, John Friedman is a director of AgFunder’s Asia operations and a director at GROW, the global agrifood tech accelerator backed by AgFunder and supported by Enterprise Singapore. AgFunder is AFN’s parent com... |
| 25.03.2020 | There are more apps for farmers than ever before, but Southeast Asia’s smallholders aren’t biting | When it comes to niche tech solutions, farmers have more options today than at any time in the past.
From marketplace apps that help them to buy supplies and sell their produce, to drones and sensors linked to their phones that help them ke... |
| 27.02.2020 | AFN introduces… Intello Labs, the computer visionaries of food quality control | For most shoppers, it is easy to spot the squelchy, sad-looking tomatoes marooned on the back of the shelf. Subtle traits in color, feel, smell, or texture swiftly drive reactions like, “ah, well: they’re discounted and still edible; I gues... |
| 08.01.2020 | AFN Introduces: Wittaya Aqua, a new wave of offshore software | As global aquaculture grows in scale and intensity, and governments wise up to the need to regulate it more closely, there’s plenty of call for technology that can foster supply chain transparency while boosting yields, improving welfare, a... |
| 25.11.2019 | Booming, blooming micro-algae | Hundreds of thousands of species of micro-algae float through the world’s waterways. Just a fraction have been categorised or studied. It leaves an imaginarium of possibilities to explore.
For decades, the hottest and most tantalising possi... |
| 21.11.2019 | SinGrow romps to victory at Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Pitch Competition | There’s no stopping Singapore’s love for its strawberries — especially if they’re locally grown, a feat that used to be futile in this swelteringly humid Asian city state. Our recent profile of SinGrow showed one way that’s all set to chang... |
| 19.11.2019 | Meet AgFunder’s Mentors | Editor’s Note: Rob Leclerc is a Founding Partner at venture capital firm AgFunder where he co-leads the investment team with Founding Partner Michael Dean.
Last month we invested in our 30th startup, and as we continue to grow and scale bot... |
| 21.10.2019 | AFN introduces… SinGENE and Back of the Yards algae sciences | Going back to life’s drawing board… and tapping into its initial building blocks. That’s how these two agri-foodtech startups in GROW Accelerator’s latest cohort founded their cell-focused businesses. GROW is AgFunder’s Singapore-based acce... |
| 17.09.2019 | GROW accelerator debuts its 9 startups | Temasek, Enterprise Singapore, Mondelez International, Cargill, Ferrero, Nestle, and Mitsubishi.
Those were some of the big names that joined in the fun at GROW’s “Meet The Cohort” on September 11, at its new Singapore headquarters at the L... |
| 15.08.2019 | How Singapore is building a foodtech startup ecosystem | A drive across this city-state takes less than getting from San Francisco airport to Silicon Valley. But Singapore’s making up for its lack of space by making it easier for startups to access funding and resources, as a Singapore foodtech s... |
| 06.08.2019 | GROW Accelerator’s Christine Pitt on corporate approach to innovation and solving customer painpoints | Christine Pitt is executive director of GROW, the new foodtech and agtech accelerator we’ve launched with Rocket Seeder in Singapore. (Applications are now open until August 19 so apply now!)
Before becoming the co-founder of GROW, Christin... |
| 25.07.2019 | Singapore’s First Agri-FoodTech Accelerator Opens for Applications in ‘Much-Needed Support’ for Startups | Applications are now open for GROW, the first agri-foodtech accelerator program in Singapore, and judging by the number of applications we’ve had already, everyone’s pretty excited about it!
GROW is our joint venture with agrifood accelerat... |
| - | Grow Impact Accelerator names 10 startups in latest cohort | NewsStartups
Xavier Kong · 9h ago · 2 min readGrow Impact Accelerator names 10 startups in latest cohort
Grow Impact Accelerator has announced its third cohort, which will see each of 10 international agrifoodtech startups receive an invest... |
