Nomatech

What Nomatech does

Nomatech is a Malaysian agtech company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bangi that engages in researching and commercializing new breeds of rice. The company operates at the intersection of agricultural biotechnology and seed commercialization, with its functional focus on rice cultivar development, an area typically monetized through proprietary seed sales, licensing arrangements, or contracted offtake with rice growers and millers. The firm is privately held and structured as a for-profit entity, with a stated headcount of 1-10 employees, placing it firmly in the micro-cap, R&D-stage segment of the agtech industry.

The public information surface around Nomatech is unusually thin. Its corporate domain (nomatech.com.my) currently resolves to a default LiteSpeed Web Server index page with no product catalog, pricing, customer references, team information, partnership disclosures, patents, certifications, or marketing material. The only documented capital event is a single funding round dated 2020-11-22 in which 144 Ventures participated as an investor, with the round size undisclosed. There is no available data on revenue, customer segments, distribution channels, geographic markets beyond the Malaysian domestic base, regulatory registrations (e.g., plant variety protection), or proprietary technology stack, and no management team is identified in the source data. The combination of a 10-year operating history, a sub-10 employee footprint, a single small funding event, and an effectively empty public web presence indicates a company that has neither built visible commercial scale nor attracted repeat institutional capital since 2020.

Name

Nomatech

Website

https://nomatech.com.my

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bangi

HQ country

Malaysia

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Core offering

Nomatech is an agtech company that researches and develops new breeds of rice, with a focus on commercializing these rice varieties. The company operates from Bangi, Malaysia, and is structured as a small private for-profit firm with 1–10 employees. Its core output is proprietary rice seed varieties intended for cultivation and sale within agricultural markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Proprietary Rice Seed Varieties Proprietary rice cultivars developed through in-house agricultural biotechnology research, intended for sale to rice farmers, agricultural cooperatives, and seed distributors in Malaysia for commercial rice cultivation.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• International Rice Research Institute (IRRI): IRRI is the global reference organization for rice research and varietal development, headquartered in the Philippines. While much larger and non-profit, it is the most directly comparable organization in terms of developing improved rice varieties for tropical Asia.
• SL Agritech Corporation: SL Agritech is a Philippines-based hybrid rice seed developer and producer, one of the few Southeast Asian commercial players developing proprietary rice varieties for regional markets. Directly comparable as a regional rice breeding and commercialization company.
• Origin Agritech: Origin Agritech is a Chinese agricultural biotechnology company focused on developing genetically enhanced crop seeds, including hybrid and GM rice varieties. Comparable as an emerging-market crop genetics company developing proprietary seed varieties.

Emerging players

• Inari Agriculture: Inari Agriculture is a US-based seed technology company using computational design and multiplex gene editing to develop improved crop varieties. Comparable as a tech-enabled crop improvement company, though focused more broadly than just rice.
• Pairwise: Pairwise is a US-based crop genetics company using CRISPR-based gene editing to develop new varieties of fruits, row crops, and other plants. Comparable as an emerging crop genetics company applying modern biotech tools to variety development.
• Cibus: Cibus is a US-based agricultural biotechnology firm developing non-GMO gene-edited crop traits, primarily in row crops like canola, soybean, and rice. Comparable as a gene-editing crop trait developer with rice in its portfolio.
• Tropic Biosciences: Tropic Biosciences is a UK-based agricultural biotechnology company applying gene editing to improve tropical crops including bananas, coffee, and rice. Comparable as a biotech-driven crop improvement company with rice as one focus area.

Broad incumbents

• Syngenta (Bayer): Syngenta, now owned by Bayer, is one of the world's largest crop science companies with a global rice seed business. Comparable as a broad incumbent operating in rice seeds, though with much wider crop and geographic scope.
• Corteva Agriscience: Corteva Agriscience is a major global seed and crop protection company with an active rice hybrid program, particularly in Asia. Comparable as a broad incumbent with significant rice breeding operations in ASEAN markets.
• Bayer Crop Science: Bayer Crop Science is the global agribusiness leader with extensive rice seed operations across Asia through its Dekalb and other brands. Comparable as the broadest incumbent with the resources to outpace smaller rice breeding competitors.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/nomatech
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nomatechsdnbhd

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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