BOverview
Beanstalk AgTech helps leaders, startups, investors and governments in the Asia-Pacific region to build and scale sustainable, ethical food systems. It acts as an innovation agency and advisory partner that guides clients in adopting best practices and new technologies in agriculture through their deep domain expertise, open innovation mindset, and a broad regional network. The team from Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, and Singapore provides agriculture, innovation, strategy, and operations know-how to connect industry players, run programs, and facilitate collaboration across the supply chain. Unlike general consulting firms, Beanstalk emphasizes a purpose-driven approach with a regional focus and a multi-stakeholder network to accelerate practical, responsible advancements in food systems. Its goal is to unleash the potential of agriculture to be the leading force for good by advancing sustainable, ethical, and responsible practices across the industry.
Work here?Claim your company
About Beanstalk AgTech
Industries
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Founded
2018
Get referred to Beanstalk AgTech
See people who can refer or advise you
Simplify's take
What believers are saying
- Gates Foundation granted $1.688 million in September 2026 for India translational systems.
- Beanstalk hired four Delhi roles in October 2026, signaling India expansion.
- October 2026 posts show active AI and dairy programs, indicating diversified demand.
What critics are saying
- Monsoon Ventures depends on Enterprise Singapore and Rabo Foundation; follow-on capital remains unproven.
- Drought initiative ended April 2026; renewed Australian government funding is not guaranteed.
- If venture studios stall at pilots, Beanstalk's commercialization model loses credibility quickly.
What makes Beanstalk AgTech unique
- Monsoon Ventures in Singapore targets six Southeast Asian markets with blended finance and commercialization.
- Drought Venture Studio raised A$22 million and launched 15 products in two years.
- Beanstalk combines venture building, landing pads, and government-backed commercialization across Australia and Asia.
Help us improve and share your feedback! Did you find this helpful?
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Options
Company News
Elevate Dairy roadshow mini update. Last week Beanstalk AgTech and Gardiner Foundation finished a ten day tour of Victoria's dairy regions as part of the inaugural Elevate Dairy Innovator Roadshow. The Roadshow brought seven leading innovators to Victoria for industry briefings, farm visits, a processor visit and three public Innovator Showcases in Morwell, Shepparton and Warrnambool. The seven agtech innovations that were showcased were selected because of their relevance to Victorian dairy operations, spanning herd management, farm operations, energy, fertiliser and on-farm safety. Across the three showcase locations the innovators met with over 170 farmers and industry representatives, offering them the chance to engage with the technologies in a relaxed setting and share their thoughts directly to the business. Following the Beanstalk Landing Pad methodology, the Innovator Roadshow is designed to meet farmers and industry where they are at, while introducing them to new, but proven, technologies in a non-commercial and approachable way. Picking up on the animated conversations between farmers and innovators filling the venues, Beanstalk Agtech heard farmer appreciation for the variety of technologies in the showcase and the opportunity gain exposure to new solutions they otherwise wouldn't have considered. It doesn't stop here though, because successful adoption needs more than a Roadshow - it needs dedicated support to set up in a new market. The next step for the Elevate Dairy program is to choose the best pathway to support to the innovators to set up in Victoria with a mixture of cash and in-kind support. Stay tuned! As the delivery partner for the Elevate Dairy program, the Beanstalk team is looking forward to sharing more about the behind the scenes experience of planning and executing the roadshow in an upcoming longer blog post. Until then, enjoy some snaps from the road and direct farmer feedback from the showcase events.
Beanstalk AgTech launches Monsoon Ventures to build Southeast Asia's agtech pipeline. India and Australia have become successful tech hubs in food and agriculture. Can the strategy be replicated across Southeast Asia? Beanstalk's new agtech venture building studio, Monsoon Ventures, is building on the trials, errors and, crucially, wins of its Australia-focused counterpart Drought Venture Studio to develop deep tech and science-based innovations aimed at improving the climate resilience of Southeast Asia's smallholder farmers. "Where great science typically gets stuck is at the pilot stage - that gap between proof of concept and commercial launch," says Beanstalk's Justin Ahmed. That's as true in Australia as in Singapore or Indonesia, he tells ImpactAlpha. With Drought, Beanstalk has raised more than $22 million and helped launch 15 products for commercialization in the past two years, including GrazeMate's drone powered pasture monitoring and ResonAg's soil sensing tech. Monsoon Ventures, based in Singapore, will follow the same model: bring promising science innovations in-house, then put scientists and entrepreneurs on the path to commercialization by matching them with capital, corporate partners and offtakers. "We're focusing on the bio-physical challenges that are critical to climate resilience - biotechnology, equipment and automation - for smallholder agriculture systems," rather than digital and software solutions, Ahmed explains. The studio plans to incubate 30 ventures over the next five years. It is selecting eight for its first cohort. Beanstalk has grant funding from Enterprise Singapore, the city-state's enterprise development agency, and Netherlands-based Rabo Foundation to get the program up and running. Ecosystem approach. Agriculture is responsible for 15% of Asia's GDP and 40% of livelihoods in the region. Both digitization and agtech adoption could unlock more than $90 billion in annual GDP gains in the region by 2033. Monsoon Ventures is focusing on Southeast Asia's more mature markets, including Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia. Beanstalk is looking to India's thriving agtech ecosystem for guidance and inspiration for Monsoon Ventures. India's food production is dominated by roughly 130 million smallholder farmers. The country's agriculture technology market has seen a major market correction - as many venture sectors have - with capital flowing at about one-third the level of its 2021 peak. Signs of market maturity: funding is moving into later-stage companies, and early-in investors agtech investors like Omnivore andAnkur Capitalare notching exits and raising new funds. Those seeds are beginning to germinate in Southeast Asia's agtech ecosystem as well. "Agribusinesses and financial institutions in Southeast Asia are more actively engaging in this space," Ahmed observes. There's also interest from philanthropic family offices "that can play a derisking role and create flexibility in the capital structures these technologies need." Beanstalk's ecosystems approach "is what makes this interesting," and different to traditional incubator and accelerator models, says Rabo Foundation's Bram Spann. The philanthropic arm of Rabo Bank, the agriculture-focused Dutch bank, deploys tens of millions of euros every year in grants and low-cost loans to support sustainable and resilient farming worldwide. Last year it approved €66 million for impact projects and enterprises in 20 countries; 40% had "no access to alternative financing," Rabo Foundation states. Most of the foundation's funding comes from its parent bank and is disbursed as working capital loans. In Asia, Rabo Foundation has supported a number of early-stage ventures and project in India, Indonesia and Vietnam, including Rize, an Indonesian tech startup focusing on sustainable rice cultivation, life sciences company Pandawa Agri Indonesia, and agri-processing company Dato in Vietnam. The foundation sees Monsoon Ventures as a potential source of pipeline. "With this commercialization angle," Spann says, "we will hopefully see some companies that we can finance."
Beanstalk AgTech, an Australia-based agriculture advisory firm, launched Monsoon Ventures in Singapore on 11 August. The venture studio is backed by Enterprise Singapore and Rabo Foundation, the corporate foundation of Dutch bank Rabobank. Monsoon Ventures received S$1.2 million in seed funding and will support agritech startups across Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. The studio targets funding up to eight ventures within two years. Over five years, Monsoon Ventures aims to build a portfolio of more than 30 scalable ventures across South-east Asia. The studio focuses on commercialising agritech solutions that improve farmer livelihoods, environmental outcomes and regional food security. Beanstalk AgTech previously launched Drought Venture Studio in Australia in March 2024, which helped raise over A$22 million.
Beanstalk AgTech announces the launch of Monsoon Ventures to accelerate agtech commercialisation in Southeast Asia. New venture studio backed by Enterprise Singapore and Rabo Foundation Malaysian smallholder farmer tends to crops in her greenhouse. Monsoon Ventures has been founded to build the resilience of smallholder farmers across Southeast Asia by supporting local founders to commercialise agtech solutions that can improve smallholder farmer livelihoods, environmental outcomes and regional food security. Agri-technologies can include innovations for seeds, soil and fertilisers, as well as agrochemicals, robotics, sensors and digital farm software. Photo Credit Marcus Chung/ iStock. SINGAPORE-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Beanstalk AgTech today announced the launch of Monsoon Ventures, a new venture studio in Singapore, backed by Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG) and Rabo Foundation. Monsoon Ventures will support founders from Southeast Asia to commercialise agtech solutions that can improve smallholder farmer livelihoods, environmental outcomes and regional food security. Monsoon Ventures will initially focus on six priority markets including Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore, and initially invest SG1.2m. The studio is targeting up to eight ventures in its first two years of operation, with plans to attract and deploy significantly more capital and build over 30 scalable ventures within five years. An estimated 100 million smallholders across Southeast Asia are the backbone of regional food production, facing mounting pressure from climate shocks, input cost volatility, and supply chain fragmentation. The most practical near-term lever to improve smallholder resilience is validated technology reaching them at scale. These technologies exist across Southeast Asia but rarely make it to market due to a lack of commercial translation infrastructure. Monsoon Ventures has been founded by Beanstalk specifically to address this commercialisation gap in Southeast Asia. The studio will invest capital, recruit complementary commercial expertise, map value chain pathways, and help ventures attract the right investors or strategic partnerships with regional players. After running the agtech-focused Drought Venture Studio in Australia and working across Southeast Asia's innovation ecosystem for eight years, Monsoon Ventures is Beanstalk's first venture studio in Southeast Asia. QUOTE: Justin Ahmed, Director, Beanstalk AgTech: "In the last two years, Beanstalk's Australian venture studio helped innovators to raise over AU$22M and launch 15 commercial products. In Southeast Asia, the challenges facing science commercialisation are even more magnified, which is exactly why Business Wire, Inc. is launching Monsoon Ventures here. "Breakthrough science for smallholder resilience in this region so often dies between proof-of-concept and commercial launch. Monsoon Ventures will bring the strategy, team, and capital to help innovation cross this chasm and reach the smallholders who need it." Supported by EnterpriseSG and Rabo Foundation, Monsoon Ventures will draw on a blended finance model of philanthropic, public, and private capital that is suited to support both impact and commercial success outcomes. EnterpriseSG has provided foundational support for the studio to develop targeted solutions that can address the region's food resilience challenges. This is aligned with the agency's goal to establish Singapore as the agrifood solutions hub for the region. Rabo Foundation have further provided catalytic capital to support Monsoon Ventures' mission to improve smallholder resilience. QUOTE: Sharon Tay, Director Food Manufacturing and Agri-Technology, Enterprise Singapore: "Strengthening regional food resilience requires more than breakthrough innovations - it requires a strong ecosystem that can translate promising ideas into solutions adopted at scale. Singapore is well positioned to play this role, drawing on our strengths as an innovation, financing and commercial translation hub for Southeast Asia. Through our support for Monsoon Ventures, EnterpriseSG hopes to help resilient food innovations move from the lab to the market, while reinforcing Singapore's position as the region's agrifood solutions hub." QUOTE: Bram Spann, Regional Lead Asia, Rabo Foundation: "Southeast Asia's agtech landscape holds both enormous potential while experiencing persistent challenges. While promising start-ups continue to emerge, many still struggle to reach sustainability or scale. This is why its focus on blended finance and innovation is critical: bringing together catalytic capital, knowledge, and partnerships to strengthen the ecosystem. "Through this venture studio model, founders can access the structured, long-term support they need to iterate, validate, and build resilient business models. Our ambition is to help translate these efforts into strong companies that deliver tangible impact for smallholder farmers by improving productivity, resilience, and livelihoods." Monsoon Ventures welcomes conversations with funders and agribusinesses working in Southeast Asia. Visit www.monsoon-ventures.com for more information. Monsoon Ventures is a venture studio headquartered in Singapore that commercialises science-led agtech innovations to improve resilience for smallholders in Southeast Asia. Monsoon Ventures is founded by Beanstalk AgTech. Monsoon Press Kit. Beanstalk AgTech is an innovation and commercialisation firm with offices in Singapore and Australia. For eight years, Beanstalk has worked across the Indo-Pacific agrifood ecosystem at seed, scale and systems level to accelerate the technologies and ideas transforming food production. Beanstalk delivered the Beanstalk Drought Venture Studio, raising over AU$22m and bringing 15 agtech products to market in just two years. Enterprise Singapore is the government agency championing enterprise development. The agency partners committed companies to build capabilities, innovate, and go global. It drives growth - empowering local businesses and shaping industries, anchoring Singapore as a trade and startup hub, and establishing trust in products through quality and standards. Enterprise Singapore is here for wherever businesses are growing. Visit www.enterprisesg.gov.sg for more information. Rabo Foundation, the corporate foundation of Rabobank, is an impact financier that invests in the self-sufficiency and resilience of smallholder farmers and farming communities worldwide. Active in more than 20 countries, it strengthens farmer organisations, inclusive financial institutions, and agribusinesses through financing, knowledge, networks, and partnerships. Through initiatives such as Monsoon Ventures, the foundation helps scale solutions that support sustainable agriculture, resilient food systems, and improved livelihoods. Contacts. Klara Kalocsay Head of Marketing Communications, Beanstalk AgTech [email protected] | +61 414 401 994
Beanstalk Agtech has announced the launch of the Drought Venture Studio.
There are no jobs for Beanstalk AgTech right now.
Find jobs on Simplify and start your career today
We update Beanstalk AgTech's jobs every few hours, so check again soon!Browse all jobs
About Beanstalk AgTech
Industries
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Founded
2018
There are no jobs for Beanstalk AgTech right now.
Find jobs on Simplify and start your career today
We update Beanstalk AgTech's jobs every few hours, so check again soon!Browse all jobs