Growing past the hype: What does it take to produce Singapore's first agri-food tech unicorn?
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Is foodtech a bubble that will soon fizzle out, or will we see sustained interest and support that will see Singapore groom its first agri-food unicorn?
Yang En and Jayden ( SLICE and Audacity) hosts Matilda Ho (Bits x Bites), John Cheng (Innovate360) and Dr Dalal Alghawas (Big Idea Ventures) to discuss ins-and-outs of how local agri-food tech startups can succeed in the global arena.
Matilda Ho
Matilda is a serial entrepreneur and investor driving to create more sustainable food systems. She has founded Bits x Bites, China’s pioneer food tech VC investing in early-stage startups tackling global food system challenges.
John Cheng
John the co-founder and chairman of Feed 9 Billion, an open innovation ecosystem platform, that looks at promoting sustainability and innovation through collaboration to feed 9 billion people by 2050. He is a member of the Ministry’s of Trade’s Pro-enterprise Panel (PEP) that helps companies overcome regulatory hurdles and part of the Singapore Food Story (SFS) Thematic Scientific Evaluation Panel.
Dr. Dalal AlGhawas
Dr. AlGhawas is the Program Director at Big Idea Ventures. She helps to combine capital and partnership to grow the world’s most compelling alternative protein companies. Dalal established the first food technology accelerator program in Hong Kong and has worked with over 25 global technology startups.
About SLICE
An experimental food lab that supports innovative solutions across the full value chain of food and agriculture. A place where food meets innovation so that everyone – young or old, able or disabled – can enjoy a SLICE of the good life.
About Audacity
Audacity is a movement to catalyse a humanity-centric future supported by innovative technologies. With inclusivity as a core value, our initiatives are guided by a values-based culture to solve issues in communities, food, energy, work, education, healthcare and urbanisation.
