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A night-time walk around Sungai Rengit - and our food system
Originally shared on Linkedin - a blog post by Founder & CEO, Leo Wein Memory from a few months back while on a short weekend-getaway to...
Nov 23, 2022


Meet Our Team: Suhaila, Breeding Supervisor
From Kindergarten Teacher to Insect Caretaker to Breeding Supervisor; our team member, Suhaila, has a lot to share about her experience...
Oct 26, 2022


Protenga in JETRO - Japan External Trade Organization
The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) visited us recently to introduce us to Japanese pet food, feed, fertiliser, and other...
Jul 21, 2022


Protenga x Yumgrubs on NHK
We welcomed an NHK TV Producer to our site recently and yumgrubs was officially introduced on air in Japan! It’s great that a mainstream...
Jul 5, 2022


Protenga at Insects Feed World 2022 - World’s Largest Insect Scientific Conference
Protenga, with the Singapore Delegation from Enterprise Singapore, was at Insects Feed World 2022 in Quebec, Canada - the largest insect...
Jun 20, 2022


Yumgrubs at Interzoo - World’s Leading Trade Fair for the Pets Industry in 2022
Our pet food brand, yumgrubs, made its first global presence at Interzoo, the world’s leading trade fair for the pet industry in Germany....
May 31, 2022


Yumgrubs sold out at Malaysia’s Largest Pet Expo 2022!
Our pet food brand, yumgrubs, recently launched Southeast Asia’s first insect-based wet pet food for dogs at Malaysia’s Largest Pet Expo...
May 20, 2022


Protenga in the Press - March 2022
We’re onboard building our next generation farms and our pet food facility to disrupt the food system and feed pets better food. If you...
Mar 25, 2022


Protenga raises $2m to scale Smart Insect Farms and launch sustainable pet food
Protenga, a leading innovator in the transition towards a sustainable, circular, and regenerative food system, recently closed a US$2m ventu
Mar 10, 2022


Happy International Women's Day 2022
From farming grubs to fixing bugs, to formulating feed, to ensuring quality, and to making sure our products can fly to our customers,...
Mar 8, 2022


Excess Seedling Larvae - Getting Ready for Farm Expansion!
Our Breeding Team has consistently been achieving an excess seedling larvae production, running a reliable and significant surplus of...
Mar 2, 2022


Protenga 2022: Sustainable Pet Food Made From Insects
We’re building natural, healthy, and affordable dog food that doesn’t cost our Planet. Read on what our CEO, Leo Wein has to share about...
Mar 2, 2022


Hermet Frass on Fruit Plants (Papayas)
Malaysia is home to many tropical fruits such as papaya, pineapple, guava, bananas, durians, and more that are not only nutritious but...
Sep 29, 2021


Meet Our Team: Ain Sufi #INWED21
Happy International Women in Engineering Day! #INWED21 Today, we celebrate our colleague Ain Sufi Baharozaman, who is in the Engineering...
Jun 22, 2021


Hermet Frass on Leafy Vegetables
Read on about the outcome of our farm trial results on local green leafy vegetables bayam (spinach).
May 29, 2021


Meet our Team: Atif Nabil
Introducing Atif Nabil, who is leading the Engineering and IOT of Protenga. He joined us late last year remotely and is currently working on
May 20, 2021


The Science of Sustainable Insect Protein with Roslin Technologies
We're happy to be in the webinar: The Science of Sustainable Insect Protein with Roslin Technologies, hosted by Milltrust International &...
Nov 3, 2020


Aquaculture Webinar Week: Insects as Feed - An Overview of Insect-based Nutrition in Aquaculture
We were in Aquaculture Webinar Week: Insects as Feed - An Overview of Insect-based Nutrition in Aquaculture organised by Informa Markets...
Oct 28, 2020


Protein Shift Innovation Scan
We're excited to be in the Singapore-Netherlands Protein Shift Innovation Scan that was launched at Foodvalley Summits, with Enterprise...
Oct 14, 2020


Feed Navigator Interview
Protenga: Making Insects Work For You We were interviewed by Jane Byrne at Feed Navigator. We shared our origins and how we ran on...
Sep 1, 2020
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