Venture Exchange Program

[Music plays and image appears of a people looking at hydroponics, and then the images move through to show people walking in a display centre, and then CSIRO pamphlets, and text appears: Australia-Singapore Venture Exchange Program Future food cohort, The Venture Exchange Program 2024 Future Food Cohort offered a three-month opportunity to engage with the Australian and Singaporean agrifood ecosystem through first-class events and mentoring and coaching sessions. This allowed participants to allows complementary research capabilities to accelerate industry development]

[Images move through to show Siobhan Coster presenting to an audience, Siobhan talking to the camera, Siobhan presenting, and then a photo of Siobhan with colleagues around a table, and text appears: Siobhan Coster, Founder & CEO, Eclipse Ingredients, Roundtable with Mondelez AMEA – Open Innovation Team and Consumer Insights]

Siobhan Coster:  I'm loving the program so far. It's been insanely valuable, not only the mentorship that we've received, but also the networks that have been facilitated and the introductions that have been made.

[Images move through to show a group of colleagues posing for a photo, a medium view of the audience applauding, and then a medium view of Amelia Fyfield presenting, and text appears: Pitching to Kellanova Research & Development ANZ, Amelia Fyfield, Director of Southeast Asia, CSIRO]

Amelia Fyfield:  I'm in particular excited by the opportunity that this program represents for startups who are participating to better understand market opportunities in both countries.

[Images move through to show Tan Shu Yee talking with colleagues, a medium view of the audience listening, and then Tan Shu Yee presenting to the audience, and text appears: Tan Shu Yee, Deputy AgriTech, Enterprise Singapore]

Tan Shu Yee:  Our companies provide solutions to the whole value chain of farm to fork.

[Images move through to show a medium view of Tan Shu Yee presenting, Tan Shu Yee with colleagues posing for a photo, and then a phone photo of cooked meat beside uncooked plant meat, and text appears: Site visit to Singapore Institute of Technology Foodplant]

Most of our startups are also in the deep tech space and adding to the vibrancy and capabilities of our research ecosystem.

[Images move through to show Max Sim talking to the camera, Max with colleagues posing for a photo, and then a male presenting to the audience and the camera pans in to the male, and text appears: Max Sim Senior Manager Research Partnership, CSIRO, Facility tour at Buhler-Givaudan Protein Innovation Centre, Showcase and exhibition at FHA- Food & Beverage 2024]

Max Sim:  I'm really pleased that we managed to get a good cohort of not just diverse technologies and also offerings, but more importantly higher TRL, which actually what both consumers and collaborators are looking for.

[Image changes to show Max talking with a female colleague, and then the image changes to show a close view of Simon Davis talking to the camera, and text appears: Simon Davis Founder & Managing Director, Seadling]

Simon Davis:  The program has been absolutely fantastic and it has really exceeded my expectations.

[Images move through to show various views of presenters presenting to audiences, colleagues talking around a table, and then colleagues and locals talking together, and text appears: Kick-off event at the Australian High Commission Singapore, Regulatory Discussion with Singapore Food Agency, Breakfast with Founders at Cliftons]

You know, the quality of both the other startups on the program and the quality of the introductions to the government agencies, to the corporates that we've met so far has just been absolutely fantastic.

[Image changes to show Simon Davis talking with a colleague, and then the image changes to show Jonathan Ho talking to the camera, and text appears: Jonathan Ho, Co-founder & CEO, Allium Bio]

Jonathan Ho:  I'm always looking for kind of new knowledge, right?

[Images move through to show Jonathan presenting to an audience, and then Jonathan posing for photos with colleagues at the presentation and then at NURASA, and text appears: Pitching and participating in CSIRO Protein Futures conference, Site visit to NURASA]

Getting to meet with and bounce ideas off of other brilliant people around the world and I think obviously the cyber community is famous for that in the food tech ecosystem, so that's really one of the big draws for us.

[Image changes to show a group of colleagues standing outside with drinks, and then the image changes to show Jeannine Malcolm talking to the camera and text appears: Visiting the Michael Crouch Innovation Centre, Jeannine Malcolm Co-founder & Managing Director, Mobius Farms]

Jeannine Malcolm: So this has been a fabulous chance to meet some great people, it’s been very condensed.

[Images move through to show Jeannine Malcolm posing with staff for a photo, a female presenting to an audience, colleagues talking together, and then Jeannine talking to the camera, and text appears: Meet and greet with Mandai Wildlife Group, Touring of Sydney Knowledge Hub, Visiting UNSW Maker Space]

But there's going to be lots of opportunities outside of the program to further those relationships and really grow, hopefully, some collaborative partnerships in research, maybe product development and commercialisation. So it's really exciting.

[Images move through to show Jeannine presenting to an audience, Allaster Cox presenting to an audience, a close view of the audience listening, and then various colleagues talking together, and text appears: His Excellency Allaster Cox, Australian High Commissioner to Singapore]

His Excellency Allaster Cox:  We have to really forge a new set of partnerships and collaborations based on genuine capabilities and complementarities.

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I'm really excited about this kind of collaboration and think this is really the future of the Australia-Singapore relationship.

[Music Plays and image changes to show a blue screen with text: Our Venture Exchange program assists and strengthens the innovation ecosystem connectivity between Australia and Singapore, The program offers the chance to engage with actors across the value chain, scope out cross-border partnerships and leverage their unique capabilities, Our 2024 Future Food Cohort gained a deeper understanding of the Australian and Singaporean markets and identified opportunities to collaborate within the agrifood tech and research ecosystem, Acknowledgements, The venture Exchange Program – Future Food Cohort was assisted by- Agrifood Futures, Food Futures company, Site Visits, Meetings, and Support from- Australia High Commission Singapore, A*STAR, Buhler Protein Innovation Centre, Cargill, CSIRO Black Mountain, CSIRO Werribee, Food Innovation Centre, Enterprise Singapore, Fresh Select, Food and Hotel Asis (FHA), FoodXervises, Haleon, Kellanova ANZ (previously Kellogg) Mandi Wildlife Group, Mondelez AMEA, NURASA, Republic Polytechnic, ScaleUp Bio, Acknowledgements, Site Visits, Meetings, and Support from- Singapore Food Agency, Singapore Institute of Technology FoodPlant, Singapore Polytechnic – Food Innovation and Resource Centre (FIRC), Singapore Polytechnic – Future Food Lab, St John’s Island National Marine Laboratory – NUS, University of Sydney – Startup Programs, University of Sydney – Sydney Knowledge Hub, UNSW – SynBio Program, UNSW – Makerspace, UNSW – The Michael Crouch Innovation Centre (MCIC), V2 Foods, Participating Startup Companies, Allium Bio (SG), Cellular Agriculture (UK), Eclipse Ingredients (AU), Evolve (AU), Grainstone (AU), Just Meat Co (AU), Mobius Farms (AU), Seadling (SG)]

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