Rize Sustainable Rice Platform with Digital MRV

Rize is a Singapore-based agtech company founded in 2023 as a joint venture of Temasek, Wavemaker Impact, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and GenZero. It combines fintech, AI-driven agronomy and market access to make rice farming in Southeast Asia more profitable and less resource intensive, targeting methane emissions, water use and pesticide residues.

The platform supports practices such as Alternate Wetting and Drying, site-specific nutrient management, low-pesticide rice and crop residue management. Its digital stack includes an Agronomist Cockpit mobile app, digital MRV that verifies AWD and residue limits with GPS- and time-stamped field photos, a farmer digital footprint with biometric verification, operations tracking from sales leads to harvest, and a dashboard for monitoring and audits. Partners include cooperatives, input providers, offtakers, carbon credit companies and financial institutions.

• Agronomist Cockpit: mobile app giving agronomists data-driven guidance in the field.
• Digital MRV: verifies AWD and residue compliance with GPS- and time-stamped photos.
• Farmer Digital Footprint: records ID, verified phone, GPS farm location and farming history with biometrics.
• Operations tracking: follows sales leads, input purchases, deliveries, tractor scheduling and harvest.
• Dashboard: consolidated real-time view of operations and MRV data with drill-down audits.
• Sustainable practice packages: AWD, site-specific nutrient management, low-pesticide rice and residue management.

• Rice exporters in the Mekong Delta sourcing verified low-emission, low-residue rice for European and Australian buyers.
• Banks financing rice cooperatives using verified farmer profiles and practice records.
• Input suppliers and carbon project developers deploying AWD programs with digital MRV for carbon certification.

• AWD irrigation cuts water use by 30% and methane by 1.4 tons per hectare per season, according to the company.
• Low-pesticide practices are stated to reduce farmer costs by 20-30% per season while meeting maximum residue limits for export.
• Verifiable field data from digital MRV supports sustainability claims, carbon certification and buyer audits.
• A traceable farmer digital identity helps lenders and input providers extend financing to smallholders.

Rice drives a large share of Southeast Asia's methane emissions, and food buyers, lenders and governments increasingly require verifiable low-emission and low-residue rice. Vietnam's program for one million hectares of high-quality, low-emission rice in the Mekong Delta and growing carbon markets are creating demand for field-level MRV, traceability and green financing.

Founded in 2023 in Singapore as a joint venture of Temasek, Wavemaker Impact, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and GenZero. Raised a 31 million US dollar Series B in July 2026, bringing total funding to 47 million US dollars; debt lenders include Vietnam's BIDV. Reports more than 17,000 farmers onboarded and 50,000 hectares covered; partners include IRRI, IPB University and Grow Asia.