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What a night! 🎉 Huge congratulations to our incredible cohort of founders who absolutely smashed it at our AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator Demo Day last night! 🚀 Their hard work, innovation, and passion was on full display as they presented their solutions for closing the supply chain, productivity, emissions and resilience gaps, and their ideas, drive and commitment inspired everyone in the room. Watching each of them showcase the culmination of months of dedication was nothing short of awe-inspiring. This milestone is just the beginning. As they move forward, we look forward to seeing their ventures continue to GROW, disrupt, and leave a lasting impact. Here’s to their success and the exciting journey ahead! 🌟👏 Amit Kumar | Sheetal Sinha, Ph.D. | BioDefense | Louise Parlons Bentata | Bluemethane | Kumar Ranjan | eFeed Life Science | Sakib Hossain | Fashol | Ying Shao | Plantik Biosciences | Theodore Ohene-Botchway | SAYeTECH | Guadalupe Murga | SYLVARUM | Etienne Vassiliadis | Wiro Nillesen | Vivagran | Joshua Soo | Sin Hang Leung | John Friedman | Angela Tay | Ryan Lee | Michael Dean | Ian Holmes | charlotte james #goGROW #SIAW #DemoDay #agrifoodtech #impactinvesting #agtech #agritech #foodtech #deeptech #investment #accelerator #Singapore #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Founders

A big day of pitch rehearsals today for Cohort 5 of the AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator, ahead of tomorrow's Demo Day. Meanwhile, our Global Incubator Programme (GIP) Cohort attended an event at CMS before heading to 'Women Founders & Funders' to support fellow GIP founder Safia Qureshi of CLUBZERØ who pitched at the event. Amit Kumar | Sheetal Sinha, Ph.D. | BioDefense | Louise Parlons Bentata | Bluemethane | Kumar Ranjan | eFeed Life Science | Sakib Hossain | Fashol | Ying Shao | Plantik Biosciences | Theodore Ohene-Botchway | SAYeTECH | Guadalupe Murga | SYLVARUM | Etienne Vassiliadis | Wiro Nillesen | Vivagran | Kaushal Shah | Envopap | Andrew Lee | LyteGro | Oliver Jobling | Macrovesta | Suneet Shivaprasad | Rare Earth Global | Joshua Soo | Sin Hang Leung | Yaniv Corem | Arafah Mudzakker | John Friedman | Angela Tay | Ryan Lee | Michael Dean | Ian Holmes #SIAW #agrifoodtech #impactinvesting #agtech #agritech #foodtech #deeptech #investment #accelerator #Singapore #goGROW

Day two with our talented GROW/Innovate UK Global Incubator Program cohort. Time exploring the Innovation Summit and AFTEA, meetings and pitches, followed by some enthusiastic sampling of Singapore's famous cuisine at Lau Pa Sat. #goGROW Safia Qureshi | CLUBZERØ | Kaushal Shah | Envopap | Andrew Lee | LyteGro | Oliver Jobling | Macrovesta | Suneet Shivaprasad | Rare Earth Global | Singapore International Agri-Food Week | Agri-Food Tech Expo Asia | Joshua Soo | Ian Holmes | Yaniv Corem | Arafah Mudzakker

Meet Dr. Sheetal Sinha, Ph.D. and Dr. Amit Kumar whose startup, BioDefense, has developed odorless, colorless, and tasteless edible coatings that extend the shelf life of whole fish - a potential gamechanger in the seafood industry. BioDefense is part of Cohort 5 of the AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator, and is one of eight startups that will be pitching for investment and partnership opportunities at our Demo Day on Thursday during Singapore International Agri-Food Week. https://lnkd.in/g_cBD2Ud #foodtech #foodwaste #wastemitigation #fish #seafood #perishablefood #foodpreservation #biotech #AgFunder #goGROW #impactinvesting #SIAW

A big Singapore International Agri-Food Week day one for our GROW/Innovate UK Global Incubator Program and AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator cohorts. First order of the day was pitch practice, followed by the AgriFood Innovation Exchange and an evening of networking to kick off the week. 🇸🇬 Welcome to Singapore: 🚀 AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator Cohort 5 Amit Kumar | Sheetal Sinha, Ph.D. | BioDefense Louise Parlons Bentata | Bluemethane Kumar Ranjan | eFeed Life Science Sakib Hossain | Fashol Ying Shao | Plantik Biosciences Theodore Ohene-Botchway | SAYeTECH Guadalupe Murga | SYLVARUM Etienne Vassiliadis | Wiro Nillesen | Vivagran 🚀 GROW Innovate UK Global Incubator Program Safia Qureshi | CLUBZERØ Kaushal Shah | Envopap Andrew Lee | LyteGro Oliver Jobling | Macrovesta Suneet Shivaprasad | Rare Earth Global #SIAW #agrifoodtech #impactinvesting #agtech #agritech #foodtech #deeptech #investment #accelerator #Singapore Joshua Soo | Sin Hang Leung | Yaniv Corem | Arafah Mudzakker | John Friedman | Angela Tay | Ryan Lee | Michael Dean | Ian Holmes

Meet Ghana-based SAYeTECH! Led by co-founders Jeffrey Appiagyei and Theodore Ohene-Botchway this agricultural technology startup is addressing the critical lack of mechanization in African agriculture—a challenge that often pulls children away from education - by creating smart agricultural machinery that empowers smallholder farmers to boost productivity, adapt to climate change, and improve their livelihoods — while helping kids stay in school. SAYeTECH is one of eight startups that will be pitching for investment and partnership opportunities at the AgFunder GROW Demo Day in Singapore on Thursday during Singapore International Agri-Food Week. #goGROW #AgFunder #robotics #farmrobotics #automation #farmautomation #mechanization #farmequipment #Africa

Looking forward to welcoming cohort 4 of our Global Incubator Programme - delivered in partnership with Innovate UK - to Singapore next week. Innovate UK agrifood companies CLUBZERØ, Macrovesta, Envopap, Rare Earth Global and LyteGro are seeking partners for joint R&D projects, looking to access new markets through technology partnering, or to attract foreign investment to support the commercialisation of UK technology. This global programme enables our cohort to work with expert partners in-market to explore opportunities in global markets, providing market knowledge and cultural insights, and overcoming barriers to entry. Check out the PDF below to learn more about this year's cohort. Joshua Soo | Yaniv Corem | Arafah Mudzakker | Ian Holmes #globalincubatorprogramme #incubator #UKstartups #agrifoodtech #agrifood #agtech #foodtech #singapore #goGROW #InnovateUK

Meet this year’s AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator cohort… 🚀 ✨ 🌟 Amit Kumar - BioDefense 🌟 Louise Parlons Bentata - Bluemethane 🌟 Kumar Ranjan - eFeed Life Science 🌟 Sakib Hossain - Fashol 🌟 Ying Shao - Plantik Biosciences 🌟 Theodore Ohene-Botchway - SAYeTECH 🌟 Guadalupe Murga - SYLVARUM 🌟 Etienne Vassiliadis - Vivagran We can't wait to see them pitch at Demo Day on November 21! 👀 Find out more about this year's cohort: https://lnkd.in/dPuNDvgh Michael Dean | John Friedman | Joshua Soo | Sin Hang Leung | Angela Tay | Ryan Lee | Dr Christine Pitt | charlotte James | #AgFunder #goGROW #impactinvesting #investment #agrifoodtech #agtech #agritech #foodtech #foodsystem #mindthegap

Meet Ying Shao (front right) and the team at Plantik Biosciences, a startup tackling the problem of extreme heat through its genome-editing platform, which produces high-heat-tolerant tomatoes in a fraction of the time it would take through traditional breeding processes. Part of Cohort 5 of the AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator, Ying Shao sat down with Jennifer Marston to talk about Plantik's approach, and which crops the company is tackling next... #goGROW AgFunder #accelerator #agbiotech #biotech #geneediting #France #India #crops #climatechange #growing #growers 

Meet Etienne Vassiliadis, co-founder and CEO of Vivagran, whose groundbreaking crop Tritordeum is packed with protein, fibre, and lutein, is a game-changer for baking, pasta-making, brewing, and animal feed, and boasts a range of attractive agronomics qualities to boot! A member of AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator cohort 5, Vassiliadis says: "I’ve never encountered anything like this in my career." #goGROW #AgFunder Wiro Nillesen #plantbreeding #specialtycrops #novelgrain #grain #protein #fiber #fibre #agronomics