Protenga - Making Insects Work For You. We develop data-driven Insect Technology that enables a circular economy for food waste and produces best-in-class, sustainable Insect Products for aquaculture, pet food and organic farming.
Location: Singapore
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +60 7-283 0066
Total raised: $1.6M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Plug and P... | plugandpla... |
| - | SEEDS Capi... | seedscapit... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 29.07.2020 | - | $1.6M | - |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.03.2026 | Insect ag recalibrates after a brutal shakeout: Where are the key players now? | The insect ag industry is littered with the corpses of startups who found out the hard way that scaling biological systems is not as easy as it looks, prompting a wave of think pieces suggesting its days are numbered. Despite the sector’s w... |
| 14.04.2023 | 5 Takeaways From Venturra’s Report On The State Of Climate Tech In Southeast Asia | Southeast Asia has experienced a boom in climate tech investments, amounting to USD 1.1 billion in the first 11 months of 2022. This aligns with the ASEAN members’ ambitious pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, with only the Philip... |
| 13.09.2022 | ‘Plug and Play Topeka’ Selects 12 Startups for 4th Round of Animal Health, Ag-Tech Accelerator Program | Since the start of the program in the spring of 2021, 41 startups have graduated from the Plug and Play Topeka accelerator program. Photo courtesy of GO Topeka. “Kansas is well known for its animal health and ag-tech successes, and Topeka i... |
| 15.03.2022 | Protenga receives $2 million to create pet food, insect farms | SINGAPORE — On March 9, sustainable food company Protenga announced it had received $2 million in investments from Singapore-based investors. The company will use the investments to develop its insect production facilities and to launch its... |
| 10.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Finless Foods nets $34m; CPGs & QSRs quit Russia | This week, cultivated seafood startup Finless Foods closed a $34 million funding round, Clean Crop Technologies raised funds for its crop protection tool, and Protenga nabbed capital for its insect farming operations. Meanwhile, major food ... |
| 08.03.2022 | SG insect-based foodtech firm raises $2m in debt funding | GreenTechNewsStartups Kul Bhushan · 10 Mar 2022 · 2 min readSG insect-based foodtech firm raises $2m in debt funding Singapore-based Protenga, a biotech company, has raised US$2 million in debt funding from a clutch of investors. Photo cred... |
| 29.07.2020 | Insect technology startup Protenga raises USD 1.6 million from Roslin Technologies, others | Singapore-based Protenga has raised USD 1.6 million (EUR 1.36 million) in its latest round of seed funding, with Edinburgh, Scotland-based agritech company Roslin Technologies included in the list of investors … Photo courtesy of Protenga |
| 22.07.2020 | Protenga nets $1.6m from UK, Singapore investors for novel approach to Black Soldier Fly farming | UK agritech venture builder Roslin Technologies and Enterprise Singapore’s SEEDS Capital, an investment vehicle linked with the city-state’s government, have pumped $1.6 million into insect farming startup Protenga. Roslin Technologies is a... |
| 20.08.2019 | UPDATE: Why is insect-based protein sprouting wings in Asia? | Updated August 26: Interviews with the Singapore Food Agency & Asia Insect Farm Solutions “It’s a dead fly, in your chardonnay,” sang Alanis Morrisette. But what’s ironic is that in a few years, we might not be too opposed to swallowing... |
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