Insectta

09/02/2024

The Insectta Team wishes all our collaborators, friends, and stakeholders a very Happy Dragon Year! 🐉

As we celebrate with friends and family, we're reminded that we're working for a future where sustainability and circular make the world a healthier place for everyone. 🧨

Soldier on! 💪

17/01/2024

Harnessing fresh ideas and inquisitive minds through our internship programmes has brought us to where we are today! 💪 We'd like to thank ACE.SG - Action Community for Entrepreneurship for supporting our internship programmes and providing both us an our interns an equally rewarding experience.

Looking to further your career in the sustainability industry? We're looking for fresh talent to join The Insectta Team! 🔍 Drop us a message at [email protected] to learn more

06/11/2023

✨ LAST 2 DAYS to vote Insectta for the TOP 5 in the EQT Impact Challenge! - https://lnkd.in/g8R5P9J6 ✨

We've made it to the TOP 10, yes! We're so thankful for the opportunity to share Insectta's work via the e27 community. Please help us to turbocharge our impact on the circular economy by voting for us into the TOP 5 via the link above. 💪 Our dream is to see all that icky food waste clogging up our supply chain be transformed into pharmaceuticals that heal bodies or electronic parts powering sustainable devices - all via the power of the amazing black soldier fly.

The Top 5 startups will have the chance to pitch at the Grand Finale of the EQT Impact Challenge in the hope of securing an investment from EQT Foundation. 📢

Soldier on!

29/05/2023

Mistakes are powerful teachers, and this article on the Vulcan Post with co-founder Kai sheds light on how Insectta's journey from the first insect farm in Singapore to the first insect biotech company with proprietary biomaterial extraction processes wasn't as straightforward as most might think. Check it out and we'd love to hear some of your significant life lessons gained from mistakes in the comments. 💬

"Insectta may have started as Singapore’s first insect-focused company, when Chua Kai-Ning and her co-founders saw Black Soldier Fly’s ability to grow efficiently on organic matter and would valorise agricultural and food waste into animal feed and fertiliser.

However, with limited space, expensive manpower, a lack of experience in agriculture, coupled with the challenges of supplying animal feed and fertilisers at the price point farmers required, the team quickly realised running an insect farm in Singapore is not an easy task.

Kai-Ning and her co-founders were left with two choices: move the farm out of Singapore, or pivot the business."

Soldier on! 💪

Four startup founders shared what they've learnt from the biggest and costliest mistakes they've made in their respective business journeys.

02/05/2023

The Insectta Team is proud to announce the success of our 2nd funding round! 🏆 Insectta’s focus for this raise is to scale our technology by completing our first BSF chitosan and melanin extraction plant in Singapore.

In a market brimming with insect protein, oil and fertilizer startups, Insectta stands out as a game-changer with our patented extraction process, allowing us to derive highly sought-after functional products, including chitosan and melanin, from the black soldier fly. 💊

Read our full press release here: https://lnkd.in/gdQdSFVy

As always, soldier on! 💪

For Enquiries:
Insectta:
Attn: Chua Kai-Ning (Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer)
[email protected]

Singapore, 26 April 2023 - Insectta, a leading company in the insect industry, announced today that it has raised $1.4 million in a funding round led by the Trendlines Group, with participation from 3 other investors: Glocalink SG, Paragon Ventures I and SEEDS Capital. The funds will be used to set....

29/04/2023

It's been a buggy bit since we were last on MONEY FM 89.3 sharing about our progress at Insectta - and we were so excited to be back this time with amazing updates on the commissioning of our new pilot plant in Jurong West!

We're looking forward to more exciting firsts - learn more about our journey here: https://www.insectta.com/our-history

Soldier on! 💪

21/02/2023

Join us on 8th March at the HER® Impact Forum organised by HER Entrepreneur where corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and innovators come together to discuss about Breaking Boundaries For Change In Sustainability, Diversity & Innovation.

Hear from Insectta co-founder Kai, plus an amazing line up of diverse entrepreneurs in-person over high tea at at Straits Chinese Restaurant, Esplanade from 2:00-6:00pm. Expect to hear about what's going on in the sustainability industry, women in tech, and one-on-one insights.

You can get early bird tickets before 3 March 2023! Register at https://bit.ly/herImpactMarch with code "HERImpactSPKR10" for $10 off.

See you there! 💪

20/02/2023

We had a great time at the Sustainable Food Camp 2023 last week!

Co-Founder Kai headed down to Cyberjaya and engaged in a quick fire pitch session, multiple roundtables discussing how we can make our food systems healthier and greener. 🍃

To end the event, we teamed up with AgriData Portal and Ecologgie Japan (株式会社エコロギー) for the business pitch competition on Day 2. Our "MSIA1TRILLION" concept was all about value multiplication via multi-industry integration and won us the grand prize of $10,000RM - sweet! 🏆

A big thanks to Leave a Nest Singapore, for the invitation, and all who participated and made it possible.

Soldier on! 💪 Learn more at www.insectta.com

14/02/2023

Looks like weve caught a couple of love bugs! ❤

Show your love for our startups making a difference by sharing their impact with your friends and family, giving them some words of encouragement on their socials, or simply giving them a virtual pat on the back. 🐛

Happy Valentines Day! 💝

11/01/2023

It's with great excitement that the Insectta Team is announcing a MAJOR update in our journey! 🐛

We've successfully commissioned Singapore's first facility manufacturing our high-value insect biomaterials. From day one, we've envisioned insects helping us create more than just feed and fertilisers. We know they can play a HUGE role in our biomedical, organic electronics, and personal wellness industries too! 💊

We're saying a grateful goodbye to our site at 60 Jalan Penjara, which has hosted thousands of people from all across the world in their learning of the amazing black soldier fly. ✋ Our new pilot facility in Jurong will be producing biomaterials like chitosan and melanin slated to one day be in your cosmetics, food, and more!

Keep following for updates as we renovate, retrofit, and begin operations for Insectta's next chapter. Soldier on! 💪