Meet the five UK agrifood startups selected for Cohort 4 of the Global Incubator Programme - Singapore, which we deliver in partnership with Innovate UK. The 2024 cohort comprises founders working in packaging, agri-fintech, bioreagent and raw materials. 🚀 CLUBZERØ: AI-powered returnable packaging platform replacing single-use packaging to minimise environmental impact. 🚀 Envopap: Sustainable packaging materials manufactured from agricultural waste, offering eco-friendly alternatives to traditional packing. 🚀 LyteGro: Biotech turbocharging microbes with an extract from black bananas to improve the performance and yield of industrial processes. 🚀 Macrovesta: Combining 30 years of industry expertise with machine learning techniques and simplified data visualisation to democratise sophisticated risk analysis and hedging strategies for agricultural producers of all sizes. 🚀 Rare Earth Global: Product development and supply chain company providing carbon negative ingredients to customers in the feed and construction sectors. They work with governments to ensure local regulatory approvals are met. Over the next six months our GROW team, mentors and experts will support these innovators to test, validate and scale their unique value propositions as they look to enter the Singapore and Asia more widely. We’re looking forward to working with them to GROW and scale their businesses over the coming months. #goGROW #InnovateUK #agrifoodtech #startups #incubatorprogramme #southeastasia #packaging #sustainablepackaging #reusablepackaging #microbiology #wastevalorisation #fintech #agriculture #aquaculture #animalfeed #fishfood #protein #supplychain
GROW
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Singapore, Singapore 9,359 followers
The global agrifoodtech accelerator for impact 👩🌾🌾🌏
About us
GROW is an ecosystem catalyst established to advance innovation, sustainability, and resilience in the agrifood system. We’re on a mission to inspire and accelerate extraordinary founders who are developing technology solutions that deliver positive impact for people, place, and planet. Through our fund and accelerator programmes we work with startups to supercharge their growth on the global stage. GROW is backed by AgFunder – a leading venture investor in the agrifoodtech sector – and supported by Enterprise Singapore, a government agency advancing the country's small and medium businesses.
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http://www.gogrow.co
External link for GROW
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Singapore, Singapore
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2019
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Singapore, Singapore 139957, SG
Employees at GROW
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Panam Parikh, Ph.D
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Matthew McGarvey
Advancing Carbon Finance and Impact Investment Opportunities Around the World
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Eng Keat LEE
Driving logistics transformation & innovation | Asia agri-food innovation go-to-market specialist
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Vinesh V George
CEO, Co-Founder - Automi | CMO Advisory | Brand growth strategist | Creative Strategy & Design | MAICD
Updates
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eFeed Life Science’s Kumar Ranjan (AgFunder GROW Cohort 5) is leveraging precision animal nutrition to improve farmer livelihoods and build food security and climate resilience in India. He shared e-Feed’s original story, the startup’s evolution, and some of the challenges of innovating in India with AgFunder News. #emissions #AI #artificialintelligence #microbiome #farmtech #methane #methaneaccounting #livestock #precisionfarming #farmdata #milk #yield #greenhousegasses #goGROW Ravi Chauhan | Ankit Patel
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Fashol's Sakib Hossain and Numair Hussain (AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator Cohort 5) are streamlining Bangladeshi supply chains; connecting farmers to retailers, customers and capital, stabilizing food prices and reducing food waste. They caught up with AgFunderNews to share their inspiring story. #goGROW #AgFunder #agribusinessmarketplaces #producers #smallholderfarmers #supplychain #foodsecurity #agriculture
Bangladesh's Fashol tackles the agrifood supply chain to stabilize food prices for farmers and reduce food waste
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AgFunderNews recently caught up with AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator 2023 alumni Nathan MacPhee to learn more about his IIF - Invest Inya Farmer platform, which enables consumers to invest in agricultural assets like crops and livestock and get a percentage of the profits from sales, and discovered how it can benefit the farming community globally. Read the interview 👇 #goGROW #investment #agriculture #producers #commercialfarming #digitization #impactinvesting #AgFunder
Australia's IIF wants to build a farm on everyone's smartphone and de-risk agriculture in the process
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Please join us in congratulating GROW alumni Wittaya Aqua (AgFunder GIA 2020) on their $2.8 million raise. They’ll be using the funding to continue to develop their unique aquaculture management platform, which combines nutritional information with field performance enabling producers to model the impacts of different feed ingredients on animal performance, and to further expand into Asia. #WittayaAqua #aquacultue #farmmanagement #aquaculturemanagement #seafood #protein #AI #machinelearning #goGROW #AgFunder
Wittaya Aqua's data-driven AI helps seafood farmers increase aquaculture production | TechCrunch
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Today we're celebrating some big achievers from our AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator (GIA), Global Incubator Programme (GIP), and Asia Food Bowl (AFB) programmes. 🎉 Please join us in congratulating them on these next steps in their entrepreneurial journeys... 🐝 With 150 active monitoring pilots already active across Europe, 3Bee (GIA 2022 ) is gearing up to release a biodiversity framework with a set of standardised guidelines in preparation for the 2025 release of its first certified biodiversity credits under the European voluntary market ➡ https://lnkd.in/gzaTMnYD 🍚 STRAW INNOVATIONS LTD (GIP 2023) is teaming up with Aston University and India's Takachar to develop a prototype that converts agricultural waste into valuable bioproducts at industrial-scale. This initiative will test smallholder adoption in the Philippines and India ➡ https://lnkd.in/ejVvQ9YN 🌾 CarbonFarm (GIA 2023) has partnered with Cornell University’s Climate-Resilient Farming Systems Programme to launch the ClimateRice initiative, which leverages carbon finance to accelerate adoption of climate-mitigating farming systems (SRI) among rice smallholders, and is on the lookout for local implementation partners ➡ https://lnkd.in/gkvUS5qz 📰 Prominent Singapore-based news outlet The Peak Magazine profiled Daryl Lim of Augmentus (AFB 2020), whose team has developed the world’s first full stack, code-free robotics automation platform. The article highlighted their recent $5m Series A fundraise, and their long-term vision to democratise advanced manufacturing ➡ https://lnkd.in/gFfUfq3M #goGROW #alumni #achievement #startups #agrifoodtech #futurefood #foodsystem #innovation #incubator #biodiversity #farming #agriculture #rice #climate #robotics #automation
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Thank you to our esteemed team of innovation and entrepreneurship coaches, guiding and shape the journeys of this year's eight-startup AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator (GIA5) cohort: 🚀 Panam Parikh, Ph.D 🚀 Francois Joubert 🚀 Marion Eble 🚀 Yiren Chen 🚀 Vi Nguyen 🚀 Amit Ghosh 🚀 Steve Dawson From novel cereals to electrostimulation for plants, learn more about our GIA5 Cohort ➡ https://lnkd.in/dPuNDvgh #AgFunder #goGROW #innovation #startups #foodsystem #foodsecurity #sustainability #agrifoodtech #agtech #agritech #foodtech #climate #health #coaching #mentoring
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Part of AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator cohort 5, Bluemethane is on a mission to remove methane from a variety of water sources, starting with wastewater treatment in the UK, where utility companies have committed to achieve net-zero status by 2030. #agfunder #carboncredits #carbonmarkets #greenhousegases #grow #meetthefounder #methane #UK #wastetech #wastewater #women #goGROW | Louise Parlons Bentata | Nestor Rueda-Vallejo |
Bluemethane unveils novel tech to capture methane from water
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⚡︎ SYLVARUM is currently applying its electro-stimulation system to tomato plants in greenhouses, and co-founder Guadalupe Murga hopes to build vital relationships in the #Asian market - where they see a huge opportunity to indoor agriculture - through participating in the AgFunder GROW accelerator. Manuel Sobrino #agritech #innovation #indoorfarming #electrostimulation #startup
Deeptech startup Sylvarum's co-founder on improving food security in Asia by "electro hacking" plants
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