👨🏽🌾Mayani is an agri-fisheries value chain platform that directly sources fresh produce, seafood, and other agricultural products from over 139,000 organized smallholder farmers and fisherfolks and distributes to 20,000+ retail customers and 230+ commercial stores (supermarket giants Robinsons Retail, WalterMart, Puregold, and Merry Mart; hotel chains like City of Dreams and Hilton Hotel; and restaurant brands like Bon Chon and Max’s Group) 🏆ADB Innovation in Focus Awardee 2021 and Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Sinag Spark Awardee 2021 🌏Our global coalition of early-stage believers includes ADB, Silicon Valley VC firms AgFunder and Plug and Play Ventures, family behind Malaysian conglomerate OSK Group, the Singapore-based Atlas Ventures and Accelerating Asia Ventures, the Kakao-backed TheVentures of South Korea, Indonesian impact fund Terazura Investments, Philippine retail giant Waltermart, Australian blue investor Ocean Impact Organization, global impact investors, and Asian family offices. We envision to fully unlock the $9B agri-fisheries industry in the Philippines by making the agri-supply chain more efficient, equitable for farmers and fisherfolks, and more dependable for buyers. We are doing this through our end-to-end agri-fisheries value chain innovation, scale-driven market partnerships, and massive smallholder grassroots network. Join us as we continue this tech revolution in the agritechnology space.
Location: Philippines, Metro Manila, San Juan
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $1.7M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | GROW | gogrow.co |
| - | Ideaspace ... | ideaspace.... |
| - | Impact Ven... | impactvent... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 27.01.2023 | Seed | $1.7M | AgFunder |
Mentions in press and media 13
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| 22.04.2024 | Deals in brief: Temasek Trust entities fund five startups under Amplifier program, Pathgen scores funding, Diagnos acquires Asa Ren, and more | NewsDeals in brief: Jago Coffee raises USD 6 million in Series A round, Levelup merges with Zevero, Supabase acquires Oriole, and more Written by Jeff Chay Jago Coffee, Zevero, Supabase, and more led last week’s headlines: Jago Coffee, a Ja... |
| 02.02.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: Plant-based salmon reels in $12m, new funding for ag robots, Impossible layoffs | This week, Canada’s New School Foods snagged seed funding for its whole-cut plant-based salmon. In agtech, BloomX secured funding for its pollination tech and E-Terry for its farm robot. Meanwhile, KFC struck a deal to put robots in its kit... |
| 27.01.2023 | AgFunder impact fund leads Mayani’s $1.7m seed round to scale Filipino farm and fisheries produce marketplace | Filipino farm and fisheries produce marketplace Mayani has secured $1.7 million in seed funding. The round was led by AgFunder’s Singapore-based Grow Impact Fund; Mayani participated in the Grow Impact Accelerator in 2021. Multiple early-st... |
| 11.01.2023 | Apply to the 2023 AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator | Disclosure: AFN is the official media partner to GROW, which is backed by AFN’s parent company AgFunder. US-based VC firm AgFunder and Singapore-based ecosystem builder GROW are now taking applications for the fourth cohort of their Impact ... |
| 18.01.2022 | Apply for AgFunder & GROW’s 2022 Impact Accelerator | Disclosure: AFN is official media partner to GROW, which is backed by AFN’s parent company AgFunder. Silicon Valley VC firm AgFunder and Singapore-based ecosystem builder GROW are accepting applications for the third edition of the GROW Imp... |
| 17.11.2021 | Addressing the ‘cow in the room’: Applications open for 2022 GROW Impact Accelerator | Disclosure: AFN is official media partner to GROW, which is backed by AFN’s parent company AgFunder. It is now widely recognized that global food systems are both a key cause of greenhouse gas emissions, and stand to be deeply destabilized ... |
| 02.11.2021 | Accelerating Asia Announces Fifth Cohort Startups, Deploys First Investment From Fund ll Into High Growth Pre-Series A Southeast And South Asian Startups | Accelerating Asia, an international accelerator VC for pre-Series A startups, has unveiled its fifth cohort, deepening its presence in the region and increasing the percentage of impact and ESG startups in the portfolio, per a press release... |
| 09.09.2021 | Meet the GROW grads concocting climate-smart ag solutions with robots & seaweed | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company. After 20 weeks of workshops, mentoring sessions, and pitching practice, the GROW Impact Accelerator‘s 2021 program has now come to a close. The 10 startups graduating fr... |
| 03.08.2021 | Join us online for GROW Impact Accelerator Demo Day 2021 | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AFN’s parent company, AgFunder. After 20 weeks of coaching sessions, mentor networking, customer introductions and pitching practice, the GROW Impact Accelerator is drawing to a close. It’ll soon be time for De... |
| 16.07.2021 | GROW startups Mayani, Rubilabs & S4S show 3 different ways for tech to uplift smallholder farmers | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company. Last month we checked in with ANINA Culinary Art, Green Rebel, and Rainfed Foods – three startups in the GROW Impact Accelerator‘s latest batch which are focused on prod... |
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