THE FUTURE FOOD ASIA PLATFORM

The Future Food Asia Platform aims to accelerate open innovation in AgriTech and FoodTech across Asia Pacific, with the goal to catalyze and align an ecosystem to cope with the challenges of food.

A first-of-its-kind platform for AgriTech and FoodTech innovations in Asia Pacific

Partner with multinationals, governments, start-ups and research teams, to build an integrated innovation network for the sector

We assist start-ups innovating and disrupting our food value-chain connect with corporations, investors, media, advisors and government agencies across the region.

SECTORS OF INTEREST

Soil & Crop Technology

Companies developing agrochemical and biological inputs, seed and crop-related technologies.

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.

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.

Decision Support Tech

Companies developing software to collect and analyze data, improving decision-making process in agriculture production.

Drones & Robotics

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

Smart Equipment & Hardware

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

Indoor Agriculture

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

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.

Agri-Finance

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

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.

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.

Decarbonization technologies and practices

A provider of innovative carbon reduction technologies or practices that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and/or generates carbon credits.

Carbon Marketplace

Companies building an online platform to connect carbon credit providers to various stakeholders that require carbon offsetting, ensuring better matching of supply and demand.

Carbon Measurement

Companies offering accurate emissions assessments, enabling reliable carbon credit generation and compliance within the market.

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.

Next-Gen Nutrition & Food Fortification

Companies innovating in efficient, scalable, and economical food fortification or personalized nutrition solutions that enrich staple foods with essential nutrients and empower consumers to make informed dietary choices.

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.

START-UPS

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Note: This is not the application form for Future Food Asia Award. Click here to register your interest for FFA 2025.

CORPORATE & INNOVATION PARTNERS

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STARTUP ELIGIBILITY FOR PLATFORM:

Operates within the 21 Future Food sectors of interest
Technology beyond proof-of-concept
Preparing to raise Series A

Capital invested to date approx. USD 100 K
Team has good English proficiency
Existing operations in Asia Pacific

Invaluable exposure to multinational companies

Meet targeted investors and strategic partners

Part of an sectoral integrated innovation network

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Note: This is not the application form for Future Food Asia Award. Click here to access the FFA2022 form.

BENEFIT TO PLATFORM PARTNERS

BOOST GROWTH STRATEGY

Accelerate business growth through corporate innovation and investing the latest innovations

INJECT INNOVATION

A novel way to transform the way your employees approach innovation and product development

EMBRACE DISRUPTION

Mentor and collaborate with talented entrepreneurs in your industry and lead advocacy initiatives

BUILD A RELEVANT REGIONAL NETWORK

Join a regional network of mentors, entrepreneurs, sector leaders and investors

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