What We Invest In

Since 2014, we have been scouting and investing in ventures in the AgriTech and FoodTech domain. With our thesis-driven, sector-focused approach to investing, we work with startups and innovation partners who share our values and level of ambition to solve the food industry’s biggest challenges.

Our Investment Criteria

  1. Raising a Series A or Pre-Series A round

  2. A proof-of-concept of the technology has been established

  3. Operational presence with a strong focus on Asia-Pacific

  4. If your main business operations fall into one or more of the technology categories illustrated below:

 
 

Sustainable Farming Practices

Soil & Crop Technology: Companies developing agrochemical and biological inputs, seed and crop-related technologies.

Water & Waste Tech: Companies developing technologies that either manage and use water for agriculture more efficiently, or help minimize and better manage waste in food and agriculture value chain, or transform agriculture and food waste into value-added products.

Biomaterials & Biochemicals: Companies generating chemicals and materials from renewable resources, i.e. biomass. This includes processes to convert or fraction this biomass. The products from such processes can be used as food, feed ingredients, pharmaceuticals, microbes or non-ag materials.

Aquaculture: Companies farming aquacultural organisms and developing related edible products. Companies cultivating freshwater and saltwater populations under controlled conditions.

Animal Health & Nutrition: Companies developing nutritional products and health solutions for agriculture livestock and aquatic organisms.

Enhancing Nutritional Value

Novel Ingredients & Processing: Companies developing new ingredients or bringing new ways to process food and ingredients, improving their nutritional value, flavour, functionality and bioavailability.

Sustainable Protein: Companies producing alternatives to the traditional animal proteins derived from livestock farming. This includes algae, yeast, insects and cultured proteins.

Food Fortification: Companies developing efficient, scalable and economical processes and technologies to enrich staples by adding nutrients.

Smart Manufacturing Technologies: Companies proposing ready-to-commercialize smart manufacturing solutions ensuring better automation, digitalization and integration of agrifood-related manufacturing processes.

Smart Packaging Solutions: Companies developing packaging solutions that store, sense, compute and wirelessly communicate information and intelligence to ensure better transparency of the agrifood value chain.

Streamlining Supply Chain

Agri-Marketplace: Companies building e-commerce platform to connect farmers to various stakeholders across the agrifood supply chain, ensuring better matching of supply and demand.

Farm-to-Fork: Companies delivering food to consumers from farms directly, in a way that streamlines the supply chain. This excludes B2C food e-commerce companies.

Agri-Finance: Companies offering and/or facilitating financial services dedicated to the agrifood value chain， ensuring better financing and better risk management.

Food Safety & Traceability: Companies tracking food or ingredient production, or bringing new ways to avoid and detect food-borne diseases, therefore reducing food safety concerns.

 

Precision Agriculture

Decision Support Tech: Companies developing software to collect and analyze data, improving decision-making process in agriculture production

Smart Equipment & Hardware: Companies leveraging sensors, connected devices or non-robotic machines and Internet of Things in the agriculture value chain.

Drones & Robotics: Companies building drones, robotics as well as related solutions and services to specifically address agricultural production.

Indoor Agriculture: Companies developing farming operations and supporting technologies that enable indoor food production.