Top 20 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Philippines in November 2024

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) Philippines investments
Artesian VC	2
Artesian VC	2
TheVentures	1
Ocean Impact Organisation	1
OSK Group	1
GrainInnovate	1
IP Group	1
Kristoffer Pulumbarit	1
Johanne Lim	1
Atlas Ventures	1
TheVentures	1
OSK Group	1
Ocean Impact Organisation	1
Jimenez family	1
Atlas Ventures	1
IP Group	1
Plug N Play Ventures	1
Johanne Lim	1
GrainInnovate	1
Kristoffer Pulumbarit	1

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
Sova Health — Sova Health is a precision nutrition platform that guides users towards a healthier lifestyle with personalized nutrition advice based on accurate blood biomarker analysis. Understand what is stopping you from achieving your nutritional goal and get your personalized nutrition plan.

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
Sova Health — Sova Health is a precision nutrition platform that guides users towards a healthier lifestyle with personalized nutrition advice based on accurate blood biomarker analysis. Understand what is stopping you from achieving your nutritional goal and get your personalized nutrition plan.

TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jikida — Jikida is an online compliance solution that allows businesses and organizations to monitor, manage, and supervise their compliance with personal information protection rules in real time.
Hyphen — Hyphen has developed 'Yugwanggi', a YouTube ad search engine that categorizes advertising videos using generative Al technology. Hyphen aims to evolve from referencing work to a hub that integrates collaboration in PR/marketing work, It focuses on the marketer work process after referencing.
Outcome — Outcome is an AI-powered solution that streamlines and improves the process of locating and engaging potential clients for B2B sales and marketing professionals.

Ocean Impact Organisation’s purpose is to transform ocean health through inspiration, innovation, and good business.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, CleanTech
Seed, Grant
Philippines, United States

Portfolio highlights

MAYANI — Transforming the Lives of Filipino Farmers through Technology Mayani is on a mission to uplift the lives of Filipino farmers and fisherfolk by harnessing the transformative power of technology. Our innovative solutions empower our local communities and enable them to thrive in a rapidly evolving agricultural landscape.
Ecospears — ecoSPEARS is an environmental technology company ushering in the net-zero future of environmental remediation. ecoSPEARS develops green technologies to eliminate PCBs and other POPS from the environment. ecoSPEARS is the exclusive licensee of sustainable environmental technologies developed by NASA.

OSK Group operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, E-Commerce Platforms
Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

MAYANI — Transforming the Lives of Filipino Farmers through Technology Mayani is on a mission to uplift the lives of Filipino farmers and fisherfolk by harnessing the transformative power of technology. Our innovative solutions empower our local communities and enable them to thrive in a rapidly evolving agricultural landscape.

AgTech Venture Capital Fund - GRDC & Artesian delivering innovation for the Australian grians industry

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
Series A, Seed
Spain, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.
Verge Ag — Verge Ag was founded with the mission to accelerate the transition to autonomous farming. Verge is building simple and interactive tools that allow growers around the world to gain operational control of their infield operations. Our core products Path Planner and Equipment Explorer are redefining how operational decisions are being made.
SwarmFarm Robotics — Global crop protection specialists ADAMA and Australian ag-tech company.

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
Microbiotica — Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers. The company's therapeutics identify gut bacteria linked to phenotype with unprecedented precision, enabling researchers to phenotype before testing of candidate bacteria in advanced human in vitro and invivo models.
MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas

Kristoffer Pulumbarit

Investment focus

Wholesale, Agriculture, Consumer Goods
Pre-Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Pelago Inc. — Pelago is a technology-enabled distribution company focused on providing quality products and services worldwide.

Johanne Lim - CEO and Co-Founder @ MoveForward Inc.

Investment focus

Wholesale, Agriculture, Consumer Goods
Pre-Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Pelago Inc. — Pelago is a technology-enabled distribution company focused on providing quality products and services worldwide.

Atlas Ventures is an early-stage venture fund based in Singapore. Atlas Ventures is affiliated to Atlas Asset Management Pte. Ltd., a diversified asset manager regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a holder of a Capital Markets Services licence.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Priam Cyber AI — Measure and improve your security operations with Priam AI.We are combining decades of experience in incident response, data science and machine learning.
PHINXT Robotics — PHINXT Robotics enables warehouses of any size to deploy autonomous robots as needed, with no expertise required.
Mariana Oncology — Mariana Oncology is a biotechnology research industry.

TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

Textiley — Textiley is an environmental deep-tech firm developed to address environmental issues caused by landfilling and incineration of waste textiles.
Factosquare — Factosquare develops goods and brands, manufactures them in-house, and innovates the factory manufacturing process.
Hyphen — Hyphen has developed 'Yugwanggi', a YouTube ad search engine that categorizes advertising videos using generative Al technology. Hyphen aims to evolve from referencing work to a hub that integrates collaboration in PR/marketing work, It focuses on the marketer work process after referencing.

OSK Group operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, E-Commerce Platforms
Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

MAYANI — Transforming the Lives of Filipino Farmers through Technology Mayani is on a mission to uplift the lives of Filipino farmers and fisherfolk by harnessing the transformative power of technology. Our innovative solutions empower our local communities and enable them to thrive in a rapidly evolving agricultural landscape.

Ocean Impact Organisation’s purpose is to transform ocean health through inspiration, innovation, and good business.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, CleanTech
Seed, Grant
Philippines, United States

Portfolio highlights

MAYANI — Transforming the Lives of Filipino Farmers through Technology Mayani is on a mission to uplift the lives of Filipino farmers and fisherfolk by harnessing the transformative power of technology. Our innovative solutions empower our local communities and enable them to thrive in a rapidly evolving agricultural landscape.
Ecospears — ecoSPEARS is an environmental technology company ushering in the net-zero future of environmental remediation. ecoSPEARS develops green technologies to eliminate PCBs and other POPS from the environment. ecoSPEARS is the exclusive licensee of sustainable environmental technologies developed by NASA.

Jimenez family operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, E-Commerce Platforms
Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

MAYANI — Transforming the Lives of Filipino Farmers through Technology Mayani is on a mission to uplift the lives of Filipino farmers and fisherfolk by harnessing the transformative power of technology. Our innovative solutions empower our local communities and enable them to thrive in a rapidly evolving agricultural landscape.

Atlas Ventures is an early-stage venture fund based in Singapore. Atlas Ventures is affiliated to Atlas Asset Management Pte. Ltd., a diversified asset manager regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a holder of a Capital Markets Services licence.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Priam Cyber AI — Measure and improve your security operations with Priam AI.We are combining decades of experience in incident response, data science and machine learning.
PHINXT Robotics — PHINXT Robotics enables warehouses of any size to deploy autonomous robots as needed, with no expertise required.
Mariana Oncology — Mariana Oncology is a biotechnology research industry.

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Microbiotica — Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers. The company's therapeutics identify gut bacteria linked to phenotype with unprecedented precision, enabling researchers to phenotype before testing of candidate bacteria in advanced human in vitro and invivo models.
MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas
Enterprise Therapeutics — Enterprise Therapeutics is a drug discovery company dedicated to the researchand development of novel therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases.In diseases such as cystic fibrosis, asthma and COPD the lungs become congested with mucus leading to difficulty in breathing. New disease modifying therapies that target the underlyingmechanisms of mucus congestion will reduce the frequency of lung infections and improve patient quality of life.

Plug N Play Ventures is an early-stage investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed
United States, Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
About:Energy — Looking to upgrade your battery technology? About:Energy offers a user-friendly platform that provides powerful battery modelling tools for optimising battery design and extending battery life.
Brilliant Labs — Pocket-sized AR for imaginative hackers. At Brilliant Labs, we're building an open-source ecosystem to support developers and creatives reimagining the future.

Johanne Lim - CEO and Co-Founder @ MoveForward Inc.

Investment focus

Wholesale, Agriculture, Consumer Goods
Pre-Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Pelago Inc. — Pelago is a technology-enabled distribution company focused on providing quality products and services worldwide.

AgTech Venture Capital Fund - GRDC & Artesian delivering innovation for the Australian grians industry

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
Series A, Seed
Spain, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.
Verge Ag — Verge Ag was founded with the mission to accelerate the transition to autonomous farming. Verge is building simple and interactive tools that allow growers around the world to gain operational control of their infield operations. Our core products Path Planner and Equipment Explorer are redefining how operational decisions are being made.
SwarmFarm Robotics — Global crop protection specialists ADAMA and Australian ag-tech company.

Kristoffer Pulumbarit

Investment focus

Wholesale, Agriculture, Consumer Goods
Pre-Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Pelago Inc. — Pelago is a technology-enabled distribution company focused on providing quality products and services worldwide.