Other
Verdant Robotics- uses computer vision to spray fertiliser or kill pests, reduces fertiliser use by 95%, spraying 20 times per second https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV0cR_Nhac0&ab_channel=Freethink
Lithos Carbon- uses byproduct basalt dust on crop fields to sequester carbon, basalt also improves crop yields, Lithos tunes deployment optimizing soil chemistry, nutrition, etc. to create a custom rock dust plan; empirically measures carbon removal volume and sells credits to corporates with a % going to the farmer
- Oct 2022 backed by USV, company is 7 months old
Indonesian
Tanihub- B2B platform connecting farmers to customers, operates 6 warehouses and processing facilities (TaniSupply) and TaniFund, a platform used to loan farmers while growing
- 2021, $65m Series B led by MDI with Add Ventures, BRI Ventures, Flourish Ventures, Intudo Ventures, Openspace Ventures, Tenaya Capital, UOB Venture Management, Vertex Ventures and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi (TMI), TechCrunch,
- 2019, $10m Series A
AgriAku- marketplace connecting agri retailers to wholesalers and manufacturers to buy supplies, including seeds, fertilizers and agrochemicals. The number of active users on AgriAku is now about 10,000 registered farmer stores. Irvan Kolonas previously worked on Vasham, a social enterprise, doing a full close-loop, full-stack model helping smallholder corn farmers.
- 2022, $6m in pre-A, led by Go-Ventures with MDI Arise, MDI Centauri, Mercy Corps Social Venture Fund and angel investors, TechCrunch
Pitik- helps poultry farmers improve efficiency via IoT devices and services as well as offering financial services.
- 2022, $14m Series A led by Alpha JWC Ventures, with participation from MDI Ventures’ growth fund, Arise, and Wavemaker Partners, TechInAsia
EdenFarm- YC19, connects 400 partners with 53000 customers covering fresh produce, 5 fulfillment centers covering 17 cities in Java, working on lending product with OCBC Ventures
- 2021, $19m Series A led by AppWorks and AC Ventures, with the participation of Trihill Capital, OCBC Ventures, Investible, Corin Capital, and existing investor Global Founders Capital, TechInAsia
Secai Marche- supply chain connecting farmers to F&B businesses domestically/overseas… allows F&B businesses to consolidate orders from farmers, so they can order smaller batches from different places without spending more money. About 30% of Secai Marche’s products are shipped to other countries, while the rest are sold domestically,
- 2021 $1.4m seed, TechCrunch
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