AgriTech

India’s agrifoodtech sector funding falls 33 percent in 2022 : report

The agrifoodtech startup ecosystem in India mirrored the global slump in venture capital funding in 2022, with funding dropped 33 percent to $2.4 billion in 2022, from $3.6 billion in 2021, a report showed last week.

Foodland Ventures’ AgriFood Tech Accelerator opens for applications

Foodland Ventures, the VC & Accelerator built for AgriFood Tech founders, has officially kicked off its third accelerator cohort intake.

Indonesia’s eFishery sets to be a unicorn as firm “in advanced talks” to raise $100M – report

If the deal goes through, the start-up is set to join Indonesia’s growing list of tech unicorns.

Singapore’s agritech firm Archisen eyes expansion to cities in APAC & Middle East while expanding capacity at home market [Q&A]

In just a short span of six years, Archisen’s 7,000 sq ft farm has grown to account for the production of about 1 percent of leafy vegetables grown locally by producing up to 100 tonnes of vegetables a year.

Singpore’s ProfilePrint inks commercial contracts with three of Brazil’s top food companies

ProfilePrint, a Singapore-based artificial intelligence (A.I.) agri-food tech company, has on Monday announced the signing of commercial contracts to deploy the ProfilePrint technology with three of Brazil’s largest food companies - Louis Dreyfus Company Brasil, Olam Agrícola Ltda (Brazil) and Sucafina Brasil.

This startup aims to capture 10,000 tons carbon from farmland this year using volcanic rock dusts

“Our [ultimate] goal is to get to a billion tons of carbon captured as quickly as possible," Yap said.

VinaCapital Ventures invests $1M in Vietnamese agriculture technology platform Koina

VinaCapital Ventures, the technology investment vehicle of VinaCapital Group, announced last week that it is investing $1 million in Koina, a Vietnam-baseddata-driven Farm-to-Business (F2B) agriculture technology platform.

Philippine agri-fisheries startup Mayani nets $1.7M in AgFunder-led round

Mayani, a Philippine-based agri-fisheries startup, has secured $1.7 million in oversubscribed seed funding anchored by the Silicon Valley agtech venture capital (VC) AgFunder through its GROW Impact Fund.