Asia Pacific

The Yield Lab

Launched in November 2019, The Yield Lab Asia Pacific, based in Singapore, is the latest expansion of the global The Yield Lab branded fund. Structured as both a fund and accelerator, this fund will focus on driving Agtech innovation across the entire Asia Pacific region in a) Crop Production/Protection; b) Food Ingredients; c) Precision Agriculture; d) Supply Chain and Logistics; e) Animal Health and Nutrition and f) Agriculture Sustainability. .

The Yield Lab Asia Pacific Fund invests in two ways: 1) Funds are deployed to make investments in Series A opportunities; 2) Funds are deployed to operate The Yield Lab Asia Pacific Accelerator.

Series A investments are made into more established startups who are focused on scaling their business regionally and this includes investing in accelerator graduates who fit the Series A investment thesis. As an Enterprise Singapore, SEEDS Capital co-funding partner, The Yield Lab Asia Pacific is able to activate SEEDS Capital matching funds for a larger investment in pre-qualified companies.

The accelerator will invest US$100,000 into seed stage companies that revolutionize agricultural and food systems to sustainably provide for the world. These startups take part in tailored accelerator programming and receive one on one mentorship and access to The Yield Lab's global network of agricultural business, scientists, farmers, and investors. Programming operates on an annual cohort basis, and is customized to each cohort of companies and include topics fundamental to startups like customers, collaborations, and capital. Each company will be assigned a dedicated The Yield Lab Managing Partner to guide them through the course of programming and individualized one on one mentoring throughout the 12 months. Additionally, The Yield Lab has an extensive affinity network extending across the world to help each portfolio to expand its footprint across the region.

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Wittaya Aqua

Wittaya Aqua has developed an innovative software platform based on advanced modelling that will enable a Sea-Change in efficiencies throughout the global aquaculture production industry. These tools are able to predict farm and feed productivity, efficiency, and economics as well as key
sustainability metrics such as waste outputs, carbon footprint, and FIFO ratios. Wittaya Aqua was the winner of The Yield Lab Asia Pacific Global Aquaculture Challenge.

Umami Meats

Umami Meats is a food production company which outshines with its vision to create a new wave of sustainable and conscious ecosystem of seafood and meat, without any environmental and animal welfare impact. Their technology of producing cell-based seafood through serum-free media and edible aquatic organism cell lines is built on a circular and sustainable economic model. Umami has leveraged the right combination of innovation and technology to create affordable, cell-cultured products.

Bloomfield Robotics

Bloomfield Robotics is an innovative, easy-to-use and cost-effective combination of ground-based image capture and deep learning-based processing to help growers precisely, efficiently, and affordably assess every plant.

DiMuto

DiMuto is a Trade Technology Solutions Platform, catalyzing food products supply chain to global businesses with a thrust on informed, fair, and sustainable trade model. Its innovative platform based on AI and blockchain to trace food products emphasizes integrating smallholder farmers into global commerce. It is transforming the face of food products/agriculture trade by creating end-to-end visibility and providing sustainable solutions on trade financing, product marketing, and data analytics.

Peptobiotics

Peptobiotics is a biotech company which offers new class of pathogen management solutions - synthetic biology; as an alternate against resistant antibiotics to maintain animal welfare standards. They use nature’s most innovative anti-pathogen defense systems and re-engineers them with state-of-art technology for use as livestock health products.

Protenga

Protenga is a Singapore based biotech company developing insect technology to foster a sustainable, circular and regenerative food system. Protenga’s smart insect farm tech helps companies extract value from their waste biomass by converting it into sustainable protein.

Biotic

Biotic is an Israel-based start-up focused on developing a solution for the proliferation of plastic worldwide. The company has created an environmentally friendly process for producing PHBV (PHA) polymer, which can be used as a 'drop-in' fully biodegradable replacement for plastic. The biological polymer is produced from a ubiquitous and naturally grown sea algae.

CreditAI

CreditAI enables smallholder farmers to obtain right-sized, right-tenured loans using a holistic assessment of financial and agriculture-related factors. Loans are issued via CreditAI's cashless system that ring fences loan usage to farm inputs resulting in high loan repayment rates.

Fasal

Fasal provides farmers with crop specific real-time actionable insights, integrating agronomy knowledge and microclimatic data obtained from hardware agnostic sensors.

Tun Yat

Tun Yat is Myanmar’s first harvester and tractor machinery booking service which offers high quality farming machine at affordable rental with standardized services for farmers.

Archisen

Archisen designs and manages modular urban farm systems with start of the art indoor farm technology. This is developed through in-depth R&D built with commercial and off-the-shelf components, providing urban farm owners high production yield rate and short ROI.

TEAM

Ying Tsui Lim

Dhairya Sachdev

Mirzan Mahatir

Thad Simons

Michelle Chee

Michelle is the principal of The Yield Lab Asia Pacific responsible for investment selection, due diligence, transaction execution and portfolio support and maintenance. She has more than 13 years of fund management experience managing more than US$100m with a boutique private equity fund

Claire Pribula

Claire is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of the Yield Lab Asia Pacific. She is responsible for managing the day-to-day investments, fundraising, portfolio, and company operations for the Yield Lab Asia Pacific. Claire is a 30 year technology veteran, and has spent her last 20 years in Asia Pacific, where she has held leadership roles at IBM, SAP, and Acxiom, managing revenues in excess of $280M. Prior to the Yield Lab, Claire was one of the founding members of ActSocial, an Asia Pacific based technology start-up, where she drove investment, sales and marketing, which led to the accomplishment of a successful exit.

Larry Taylor

As the Asia Pacific Region Partner, Larry will focus on fundraising for the Accelerator and Growth Fund and leveraging Portfolio Companies in other regions into Asia, and recruiting General Partners across AP. An American born in Japan, Larry has forty years of experience as a Senior International executive building businesses in global markets. He founded Aziotics, a business development consulting firm, in 1997 after a corporate career with Monsanto and Union Carbide. Aziotics assists companies with solutions for International Markets including: Strategic Plans, Market Research, Competitive Intelligence, Marketing Plans, Partner Search, Site Selection, Negotiation Support and Economic Impact Analyses. Larry’s professional career has encompassed a wide variety of international experiences: A start-up in Indonesia; Marketing in Taiwan, China, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, & India. General management in Japan was of a USD 200 M Agriculture business. Global leadership included responsibility for commercialization of all new technologies coming out of R&D of a Fortune 50 agricultural company and identification of Global new-ventures in agriculture. Prior to his corporate career, Larry was a Peace Corp Volunteer and trainer in Malaysia. He has a B.Sc from Cornell University. He is fluent in Indonesian and able to speak ‘travel’ Japanese. Larry also teaches on related subjects. He has taught ‘Asian Business’ at Saint Louis University and short-courses for the World Trade Center and the University of Missouri at St.Louis. Larry is a certified cross-cultural trainer delivering training for executives on International assignment and teams working in International environs. Larry is active in volunteer leadership at the World Affairs Council of St.Louis, Cornell University, and the US-Indonesia Society.

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