Malaysian startup Qarbotech has secured $700,000 in seed funding to boost production of their photosynthesis enhancer, aiming for a 50x increase. This solution accelerates plant growth and reduces crop cycles, addressing global food security concerns.  Qarbotech is scaling up its photosynthesis enhancer production from 2,000 liters to 100,000 liters per month, alongside expanding its international […]

Indonesian agritech startup Semaai has successfully secured $4.7 million in a pre-Series A funding round, combining equity and debt financing. Tokyo-based venture capital firm CyberAgent Capital led the round. For Semaai, it brings its total funding to $7.6 million. New investors joining this funding round include Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, Ruvento, MyAsiaVC, and Heracles Ventures. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

ARIA, a one-stop solution for Indonesia’s agriculture service, announced raising $5 million in seed funding led by East Ventures, who joined the pre-seed round in March 2022. This round of funding was also joined by Triputra Group, Michael Sampoerna, Arkana Ventures, GK-Plug & Play, and other strategic investors. ARIA is an agritech firm with the […]

Indonesia-based integrated food technology startup GREENS announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount in its pre-Seed funding round led by East Ventures and backed by other investors. GREENS said it will allocate the new funding to build the ecosystem for food decentralization in two phases. Phase 1 will focus on enabling a hyperlocal food […]

Pitik, Indonesia’s largest poultry tech startup, announced raising $14 million in a Series A funding anchored by Alpha JWC Ventures and participated by existing investors MDI Ventures and Wavemaker Partners. Launched by Arief Witjaksono and Rymax Joehana in mid-202, Pitik seeks to expand its ecosystem to empower more chicken farmers in Indonesia using the latest […]

DELOS, an Indonesian aquaculture-tech company, has raised $8 million in Seed extension financing co-led by Centauri, a collaborative fund between MDI Ventures and KB Investment Co., Ltd. and Southeast Asian venture capital fund Alpha JWC Ventures. MDI-KB’s Centauri and Alpha JWC Ventures are joined by existing investors, Number Capital, Arise, iSeed SEA, Irvan Kolonas, as […]