Unveiled during Singapore International Agri-Food Week (SIAW), a bold new innovation architecture is emerging from Southeast Asia. Alternate Futures, a fund-backed Innovation Centre was officially launched through a strategic alliance with Agrifood Futures, marking a decisive move to shape how climate, food, and energy challenges are addressed across the region and beyond.

At its core, Alternate Futures blends venture investment with innovation orchestration by integrating capital, technology, and ecosystems to design deployable, system-level solutions. Unlike traditional venture models that fund isolated startups, Alternate Futures invests in interlocking portfolios of innovations designed to operate together in the real world.

“The world doesn’t need another green fund. It needs a new kind of architecture for innovation,” said Keith Loo, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Alternate Futures. “Our goal isn’t to pick winners. It’s to build systems that work, where technologies reinforce one another and drive scalable, measurable impact”.

A fund and an innovation centre, engineered for real-world adoption

Alternate Futures combines capital investment with hands-on deployment programs that accelerate early-stage startups into market-ready ecosystems. 

Through a strategic alliance with Agrifood Futures, the Innovation Centre will work closely with its global network, including the related company, Farmers2Founders. Together, these partners form a connected ecosystem of innovation enterprises headquartered in Singapore and Australia, led by Joshua Soo, Dr Christine Pitt, and Skye Raward. This alliance allows AFIC to collaborate across borders, combining deep regional expertise and market access to accelerate the commercialisation and scaling of agrifood and climate innovations.

“This alliance brings together three complementary forces: investment, innovation and impact”, said Joshua Soo, Co-founder and Director of Agrifood Futures. “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.”

Raising the Alternate Futures Innovation Fund

As part of its launch at SIAW, Alternate Futures will be raising a new fund to back founders working across Agri-Food, Materials, Energy, and Data Infrastructure, which are the four pillars of a regenerative economy. The fund will support integrated “solution stacks”: purpose-built combinations of startups, technologies, and financing models that interlock to drive system-level progress beginning in Southeast Asia.

An invitation to build systems of the future

Alternate Futures invites institutional investors, family offices, corporates, and ecosystem partners to join its mission in architecting alternate futures worth living in, where capital doesn’t just fund innovation, but orchestrates it.

Register your interest in the Alternate Futures Fund at www.alternatefutures.io 

About Alternate Futures

Alternate Futures is a Singapore-based fund-backed Innovation Centre that invests in systems, not silos. Its model integrates venture funding, startup acceleration and ecosystem orchestration across Agrifood, Materials, Energy and Data Infrastructure to build regenerative solutions that scale globally. www.alternatefutures.io 

About Agrifood Futures

Agrifood Futures and its affiliated company Farmers2Founders is an integrated, global business advancing innovation and technology. Headquartered in Singapore with operations across Asia, Australia and Europe, they connect innovators, investors and industry partners to accelerate commercialisation, scale adoption to build climate-ready food systems. www.agrifoodfutures.co | www.farmers2founders.com