AgriTech

Recorded climate tech funding in Vietnam fell 52 percent in 2025 to $49.86 million across 33 transactions, from $104.20 million across 60 transactions in 2024, according to the "Vietnam Climate Tech Ecosystem Report 2026."

Betagro, a Thai integrated food company, has acquired a majority stake in Freshket, a digital food supply platform for the hotel, restaurant, and catering sector.

The investments support the broader aspirations of the Thirteenth Malaysia Plan (RMK13) and the Bumiputera Economic Transformation Plan 2035 (PuTERA35) to strengthen strategic industries, develop homegrown capabilities and enable more Bumiputera companies to participate in high-growth, high-value (HGHV) sectors.

Singapore's Rize, an agricultural technology company working to reduce emissions from rice cultivation, has raised $31 million in a Series B round comprising $20 million in equity and $11 million in debt financing.

Thailand's Board of Investment (BOI) has approved a $688 million investment by Nestlé (Thai) Co., Ltd. to construct a smart factory and distribution center in Samut Prakan province.

Farmnet, the Vietnam-based trading arm of agricultural supply chain firm TechCoop, has received a $11.75 million senior secured loan from Symbiotics, a Geneva-based impact investment firm.

India's AI-power technology company Wipro will acquire Mindsprint, the technology subsidiary of Singapore's agribusiness Olam Group, for S$375 million ($291 million) cash, as part of a broader strategic partnership that includes a long-term digital transformation deal valued at over $1 billion.

S&E Company, a South Korea–based agritech firm, has announced that it is accelerating the global expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven agricultural data analytics and B2B pre-trading platform, B•good, with Vietnam positioned as a key market in its Southeast Asia strategy.

Agrilever, an agritech firm based in the Philippines, has partnered with global weather intelligence firm Tomorrow.io to bring hyperlocal, the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered forecasting solutions to the country’s agricultural sector.

In a multi-sectoral bid to develop agricultural cooperative-based models for resilient rural livelihoods, Philippine development sector group Bayan Family of Foundations, in partnership with Philippine agritech Mayani, landed philanthropic funding from HSBC Philippines, to support smallholder farmers and fisherfolk in adapting to climate change while…