InnoPhytoTech crowned as Grand Winner of TECH PLANTER in Thailand 2025!
On 19th July 2025, Leave a Nest Singapore conducted TECH PLANTER in THAILAND 2025 at CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL of INTEGRATED INNOVATION, CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY. This is our 10th consecutive year of TECH PLANTER since 2016.
This year, 9 finalists were chosen from 35 applications to pitch their core technology, business model and issues that they want to solve in front of a panel of judges from Leave a Nest Singapore, UntroD Capital Asia, AIT Entrepreneurship Centre, Chulalongkorn University Business Incubator, ExpresSo NB, Fuji Electric, Japan Tobacco, Kirin Holdings, Soken Chemical & Engineering, and Ezaki Glico. The finalists were from three categories: Bio Wellness, Chemistry Impact, and Green Shift.
The award recipients, selected for outstanding contributions and impact, are detailed below.
TECH PLAN Demo Day in Thailand 2025 Awardees
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| Grand Winner: InnoPhytoTech
Technology Theme: Revolutionary enzyme technology to convert fruit sugar into prebiotics. Award Inclusions: THB 50,000 Cash Prize and an Invitation to present at the TECH PLANTER Asia Final 2025 Reason: InnoPhytoTech's technology and application would not just preserve the flavors of the fruits but also reduce the sugars. Thailand, being a major fruit producer, need not discard the excess fruits but turn them into healthy treats. This application can be brought to other countries within Southeast Asia. |
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| Leave a Nest Award: Enable Earth
Technology Theme: Valorizing agricultural wastes using AI logistics and industrial continuous pyrolysis Award Inclusions: Invitation to present at the TECH PLANTER Asia Final 2025 Reason: Enable Earth's innovation and solution is not just for a Thai issue, but is applicable across agricultural areas in Southeast Asia. Burning of argicultal waste is a common practice and with Enable Earth's solution can reduce the burning or halt it in the future through the value that is created for the farmers. |
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| UntroD Capital Asia Award: Riffai
Technology Theme: Next-generation Earth observation through AI and hyperspectral satellite imaging Award Inclusions: THB 30,000 Cash Prize Reason: UntroD has been investing in space-related technology and is excited to see that in Thailand, the use of satellite imagery and successful use case by Riffai would increase the development Space tech in Thailand. |
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| Fuji Electric Award: Enable Earth
Technology Theme: Valorizing agricultural wastes using AI logistics and industrial continuous pyrolysis Award Inclusions: THB 30,000 Cash Prize Reason: Fuji Electric looks forward to working with Enable Earth to tackle the contributing factor to Northern Thailand's air pollution issue. |
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| JT Award: Scentory
Technology Theme: Smart aroma release technology transforms every meal into an unforgettable sensory journey. Award Inclusions: THB 30,000 Cash Prize Reason: Scentory's innovation fits very well with Japan Tobacco's vision. And look forward to working with Scentory to develop use case for their innovation and conduct further research with Scentory. |
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| Kirin Award: Nanozeree
Technology Theme: Enhancing targeted probiotic and prebiotic deliveries through nanoencapsulation Award Inclusions: THB 30,000 Cash Prize Reason: Kirin is interested in using Nanozeree's technology to encapsulate other active ingredients that can be beneficial to people by consuming the new products. |
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| Soken Chemical Award: Rebonding
Technology Theme: SalvaStory: Bio-coating solution for paper preservation Award Inclusions: THB 30,000 Cash Prize Reason: The coating technology that Re-bonding uses is interesting to Soken Chemicals and Soken Chemicals would like to work with Re-bonding to produce Salvastory in larger quantities. Bring the benefits to the society. |
For more details related to all the Finalist and Lightning Talk teams who pitched during the event and all the Judges who participated in the program, you may check out this related news article: https://techplanter.lne.st/2025/07/18/tpth25_demoday/
FINALLY, CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO ALL THE WINNERS, PARTICIPANTS, AND APPLICANTS OF TECH PLANTER IN THAILAND 2025!
The TECH PLANTER Asia 2025 season continues! The Vietnam and Thailand legs are complete, and we have Indonesia this week. Stay tuned to our website and social media channels for more details!
As a result of TECH PLANTER in Thailand, Enable Earth and InnoPhytoTech will be at TECH PLANTER Asia Final held in MALAYSIA on AUGUST 23, 2025. And for all the teams, we are deeply committed to advance these changemakers' deep tech innovations! Next year's TECH PLANTER in Thailand 2026 program is in the works, please reach out regarding partnerships and applications here. For any inquiries or questions, feel free to contact us at info-asia “@” lne.st (attention Ambrose & Dr. Kihoko)