Alternate Futures, a fund-backed innovation centre, has been launched during the Singapore International Agri-Food Week. This initiative, formed through a strategic alliance with Agrifood Futures, seeks to address climate, food, and energy challenges across Asia and beyond by integrating venture investment with innovation orchestration. The centre aims to create deployable, system-level solutions by investing in interlocking portfolios of innovations rather than isolated startups.
Keith Loo, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Alternate Futures, emphasised the need for a new kind of innovation architecture, stating, “The world doesn’t need another green fund. It needs a new kind of architecture for innovation.” The centre combines capital investment with hands-on deployment programmes to accelerate early-stage startups into market-ready ecosystems.
The alliance with Agrifood Futures allows Alternate Futures to collaborate with a global network, including Farmers2Founders, to accelerate the commercialisation and scaling of agrifood and climate innovations. Joshua Soo, Co-founder and Director of Agrifood Futures, highlighted the partnership’s potential, saying, “By linking Alternate Futures with our global ecosystem, we’re unlocking capital, capability and markets to enable solutions that regenerate entire systems, not just individual sectors.”
As part of its launch, Alternate Futures will raise a new fund to support founders in Agri-Food, Materials, Energy, and Data Infrastructure. This fund will back integrated “solution stacks” to drive system-level progress in Southeast Asia. The centre invites institutional investors, family offices, corporates, and ecosystem partners to join its mission in building sustainable systems for the future.
