Beanstalk is a leading ventures and advisory firm dedicated to driving profitable and sustainable agrifood systems. We are a passionate ag-focused team with vast expertise across deep-tech, innovation, start-ups, commercialisation, strategy, insights, consulting, government, multinational agribusiness, not-for-profit and NGOs. We are positioned across Australia and Southeast Asia, offering our clients access to local knowledge, partners and pathways to scale across the region.

Founded in Australia, Media City Scientific is a biotechnology company developing chemically defined, animal-free alternatives to foetal bovine serum (FBS) for mammalian cell culture. The company’s mission is to improve scientific reproducibility, reduce ethical reliance on animal-derived inputs, and address structural limitations inherent in serum-based cell culture systems that underpin much of modern biological research.

Founded in Singapore in 2023, Buildables is an AI-powered industrial design and sourcing platform developed by Overhaul, focused on reducing the time, cost, and coordination complexity of hardware product development. The company’s mission is to democratise hardware manufacturing by enabling engineers and non-technical founders to rapidly prototype and prepare physical products for fabrication, while automating non-design engineering workflows that are traditionally manual, fragmented and error-prone.

Founded in Kuala Lumpur, Fugee School is a non-profit organisation providing education and holistic support to refugee and asylum-seeker children who face systemic barriers to accessing formal schooling. The organisation’s mission is to deliver safe, high-quality education and to improve long-term life outcomes for displaced students through academic instruction, community support, and pathways into further education and employment.