Semaai, an agritech startup in Indonesia, has raised $2.9 million from its bridge funding round that it will use to further boost its initiative to expand the company’s product offerings and reach more underserved farmers and agri-retailers in the country. With the additional funding, Semaai said it will now be able to help these farmers […]

FreshToHome‘s mission to make 100% preservative and antibiotic-residue free fish, seafood, and meat affordable and accessible to millions of meat lovers received a boost from the outcome of its recently concluded Series D. The funding round closed with $104M in fresh investments for the world’s largest and fully integrated online consumer brand for preservative and […]

EdenFarm, a B2B food supply chain startup based in Indonesia, has announced raising $13.5 million in its pre-Series B funding round anchored by Telkomsel venture arm TMI. AC Ventures and AppWorks also participated in the funding round for the food service-focused startup, along with Decart Ventures, Fubon Capital, Trihill Capital, OCBC NISP Ventura, Nakhla, and […]

Philippine-based agritech startup Mayani has announced raising $1.7 million in its Seed funding round anchored by AgFunder’s Singapore-based Grow Impact Fund. Multiple early-stage investors joined the round, including Singaporean VC firms Atlas Ventures and Accelerating Asia Ventures, Australian blue economy-focused firm Ocean Impact Organization, South Korean seed investor TheVentures, Philippines’ Ideaspace Foundation, US pre-seed and seed […]

Singapore-based impact investor Silverstrand Capital announced an additional €15 million ($15.5 million) investment in Netherlands-based aquaculture investment fund Aqua-Spark, bringing its total investment to €25m. As a single-family office with an impact investing mandate focused on combating the biodiversity crisis, Silverstrand is focused on advancing regenerative food systems and natural climate solutions. Silverstrand first invested […]

India’s Phyx44 can already proceed with its plan to develop animal-free milk proteins and fats for use in dairy products after it raised seed fund amounting to $1.2 million. The money came from its recent funding round led Better Bite Ventures and participated by Ahimsa VC, PeerCapital, Spectrum Impact, Rohit Gulati (Managing Director and Partner […]

Beleaf, an Indonesian smart farming startup, announced raising $2 million in a Seed funding round led by Jakarta-based venture capital firm Alpha JWC Ventures. The funding round was also backed by BRI Ventures’ Sembrani Nusantara, MDI-Finch Capital’s Arise, and several prominent angel investors. Founded in 2019 by Amrit Lakhiani, Beleaf is a smart farming company […]

Nutrition Technologies, a biotech company headquartered in Singapore and operating in Malaysia, has closed a $20-million equity venture round led by PTT Ventures, according to an announcement. The round also saw the participation of Sumitomo Corporation, ING Sustainable Investments, Mandala Capital, and existing investors Openspace Ventures, SEEDs Capital, and Hera Capital. Nutrition Technologies manufactures sustainable […]

Singapore-based food and agritech startup Glife Technologies announced Wednesday that it raised $3 million in its Series A1 funding round led by venture capital investor Tin Men Capital. The funding round will help Glife in accelerating its commercial plans, including the launch of a digital marketplace for the F&B sector and strengthening its operational capabilities […]

Gokomodo, an Indonesian agriculture supply chain platform, announced raising $26 million in its Series A funding round led by East Ventures. Other investors participating in the oversubscribed round are SMDV, Eight Capital, K3 Ventures, Triputra, Waresix, Indogen Capital, Sahabat Group, and Sampoerna Financial. This funding amount marked as one of the largest series A ticket […]