November highlights from GROW
What a month it's been! We're still surfing on the energy of the Singapore International Agrifood Week, which brought together the agrifoodtech community around the region and across the globe in the last week of October.?We hosted the AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator Demo Day with 200 people in attendance -?our first full in-person demo day since the pandemic started. We also had our UK cohort of Land x Launch? and Innovate UK visit Singapore to get plugged into the ecosystem.
Now, our Land x Launch? internationalisation programmes are in full swing and we're gearing up for our 2023 programming. Stay tuned for some exciting announcements from us coming soon!
Read on to re-watch the pitch highlights from our virtual GROW Impact Accelerator Demo Day, meet three UK-based agrifood innovators scaling their tech into Asia, and come with us on a field trip to an urban mushroom farm in Singapore!
Singapore International Agrifood Week?
We're still re-living the highlights of one of the most packed, exciting weeks for agrifoodtech in the region. In the last week of October, the agrifoodtech community around the region and across the globe gathered in Singapore to exchange ideas and support the building of a vibrant agri-food ecosystem in Asia.
During the week, we:
?Hosted our GROW Impact Accelerator Demo Day with an in-person audience of 200 investors, agrifood corporates, government partners and the agrifoodtech community across Southeast Asia?
? Exhibited GROW's cohort of startups at our pavilion at the Agri-Food Tech Expo Asia
? Welcomed the UK-based founders from our Gateway to Asia programme (in partnership with Innovate UK ) to Singapore, and showcasing their innovations at the British High Commission and at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit pitch day
??Celebrated the launch of the latest AgFunder APAC Agrifoodtech Investment report
It was wonderful to meet with so many folks from the agrifoodtech community in one place, share conversations that will shape the future of agrifoodtech, and see how far Singapore has come as a global agrifoodtech hub in just a few short years.??We're looking forward to next year!
Demo Day pitches??
The global foodtech and agtech leaders of the GROW Impact Accelerator are pushing new innovative frontiers to make our food system more sustainable and resilient. Click below to re-watch their amazing pitches from our Demo Day, or get in touch with the founders by connecting through our form.
P.S. - Applications are now open for Cohort 4. Apply before 30 January!
??? 3Bee - Niccolò Calandri |?? Decomer Technology - Mart Salum?e | ??? Lyro Robotics - Nicole Robinson |??? MYCL | Mycotech Lab - Adi Reza ?? |??? phagos - Alexandros Pantalis |??? Tepbac - Lam Nguyen |??? VeggieVictory - Hakeem A. Jimo & Bola Adeyanju |??? X-Centric Sciences - Roozbeh Ravansari |??? Yeap - Jonathan Goshen
Meet the teams of Land x Launch???
In September we unveiled the 8 agrifoodtech companies selected in partnership with Innovate UK and Innovate UK EDGE to participate in our 2022 cohort of the Global Incubator Programme (GIP) - Gateway to Asia, powered by our?Land x Launch? platform.
In our coming newsletters we'll be introducing you to the teams as we work closely with them to internationalise and export their solutions to Asia!
You can request an introduction with the startups here.
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"Meat cultivation face scale and affordability challenges due to the limited availability and very expensive proteins called growth factors that cells need to keep growing and multiplying. Bright Biotech uses genetically-engineered tobacco plants to manufacture proteins used to produce cultivated meats at high and economically efficient yields. Bright Biotech’s plant-based approach is robust, highly scalable and sustainable allowing plentiful production of affordable growth factors. Our technology uses chloroplasts of plant cells to make the proteins. This is a step change from traditional carbon-heavy and expensive fermentation technologies."
"Fotenix is an agricultural ability provider, enabling data-driven operation on farms, through cameras, deploying colors of light, with AI to monitor plant health. Fotenix increases efficiency in the global agri-food industry, enabling producers and agronomists to identify plant characteristics earlier in the season, well before they become visible to even the sharpest agricultural eye. This real-time information means that appropriate action can be made sooner and better informed, particularly when paired with the latest machinery; an advantage that will improve agricultural efficiency and reduce its environmental footprint. "
"Impact Solutions are a UKAS testing laboratory and an R&D centre. Olatek is the innovation we want to deploy in the ASEAN market. Olatek aims to use fish waste as a feedstock for lubricants for various end-users. This process is the first to look at how fish waste can be used to make lubricants. By using enzymes and gentle reaction conditions, we are able to drastically reduce the environmental impact of lubricants during production and once they leak into the environment. This innovation tackles both fish waste generated during processing and creates value from a feedstock that is currently costly to dispose of, both in financial and environmental terms."
A visit to Spore Gardens?- a homegrown agrifoodtech venture in Singapore
As a city that devotes less than 1% of its land to agricultural production, you might think there's not "mush room" to grow mushrooms in Singapore. But you'd be wrong!?
John Ong , founder of? Spore Gardens , is looking to boost our urban mushroom production capabilities and set the new gold standard for freshness, taste, and nutrition. Last Friday the GROW team visited the mushroom farm for their first harvest, together with Enterprise Singapore and the Singapore Food Agency.
We couldn't be prouder of Spore Gardens' incredible progress as a startup: from joining our?Ventures Studio programme?at the beginning of this year, to receiving the Startup SG Founder Grant, and now to opening its doors. Onwards and upwards!
GROW community updates
Our portfolio companies and alumni are GROWing to new heights!
Augmentus expands to US to meet growing demand for no-code robotics Circle Harvest AKA Edible Bug Shop expands cricket protein farm and facilities to meet growing demand
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