3 New Funding Opportunities - Tech for Good
Issue 70 - July 27, 2021
Happy Tuesday,
I hope your week is off to a great start! This week I am sharing a profile of a SaaS AgTech company based in India that has reached scale across most of SE Asia. A few months ago I spoke about AgTech to 500 Angkor’s cohort of young entrepreneurs and many of the messages I recieved after the talk were asking for more examples of startups working in the AgTech space. FarmERP is great example of SaaS products innovating in agriculture, a market that is ready for more players in Cambodia. Additionally, I also found three great funding opportunities for your startup or originization doing work in SE Asia.
As always if you would like me to share anything with this community of 800+ technology practitioners, please send me an email at: jesse@glean.net.
Have a great week!
Jesse
What’s interesting this week…
🚜 SaaS for agriculture: How FarmERP’s digital farming solutions manage 600,000 acres of farmland in 25 countries
A great profile on FarmERP who has been able to scale their ERP system for farmers across most of SE Asia. From the article: “FarmERP was among the first companies in the world to bring software to agriculture. In over a decade, it has served 1.3 million farmers directly and indirectly. Now, it is looking to tap into B2C growth channels like ecommerce and farm finance.”
💰 Startup Funding: Sequoia launches fellowship program for female founders in India and SEA
Sequoia Capital India has launched a fellowship program for female founders in Southeast Asia and India in an effort to encourage more women to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. As part of the Spark initiative, Sequoia India will offer a US$100,000 grant to each of the 15 women entrepreneurs chosen, whose startups are at the pre-launch or pre-product-market-fit stage.
💰 Startup Funding: UNICEF Funding Opportunity for Tech Startups
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking to make up to $100K equity-free investments to provide early stage (seed) finance to for-profit technology start-ups that have the potential to benefit humanity.
If you’ve got a startup using machine learning (ML), data science (DS), or artificial intelligence (AI), registered in one of UNICEF’s programme countries, and have a working, open source prototype (or you are willing to make it open source) showing promising results, the UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking for you.
💰 Grant Funding: Strengthening Media Literacy in the Mekong Region (PDF)
International Foundations for Election Systems has issued this Request for Applications for orginizations that can implement a project that will strengthen media literacy and improve access to information for marginalized groups in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. The objective of this project is to counter COVID-19 related disinformation through media literacy programs for their communities.