What's happening at Forte Biotech.
Awards, press coverage, publications, conference appearances, and company announcements.
Forte Biotech named finalist for the Responsible Seafood Innovation Award 2026
Forte Biotech was one of the finalists for the Global Seafood Alliance's 2026 Responsible Seafood Innovation Award in the aquaculture category.
Read more→Forte Biotech Vietnam co-hosts shrimp disease diagnosis workshop with Can Tho University
Forte Biotech Vietnam (Công ty TNHH Forte Biotech Việt Nam) co-hosted a workshop with the College of Aquaculture at Can Tho University on the morning of 30 September 2026.
Read more→Kit Yong from Forte Biotech discusses field-ready diagnostics on the Nucleate Singapore Pulse podcast
Our teammate Kit Yong was a guest on the Nucleate Singapore Pulse podcast, where he spoke with host Aakash Naresh Kumar for about 43 minutes on field-ready diagnostics for aquaculture.
Read more→Forte Biotech selected for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2025
Forte Biotech was selected for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2025. Thousands of companies applied and 200 were chosen.
Read more→The Business Times features Forte Biotech in a report on Singapore agritech firms in Southeast Asia
The Business Times published a report on how Singapore agritech companies are finding markets in the region. Forte Biotech appears as an example alongside Polybee and AgriG8.
Read more→Người Lao Động reports on Forte Biotech's progress after the Net Zero Challenge
The Vietnamese newspaper Người Lao Động published a follow-up on Forte Biotech on 10 July 2025, after the company's win at the Net Zero Challenge in December 2023.
Read more→Kit Yong from Forte Biotech scheduled to speak at London Tech Week 2025
Our teammate Kit Yong was listed as a speaker at London Tech Week on 9 June 2025.
Read more→Forte Biotech joins Diagnostics For Animals
Forte Biotech joined Diagnostics For Animals (D4A), the France-based industry association for animal-health diagnostics, which announced the new member on 15 May 2025.
Read more→Aqua Culture Asia Pacific reports on RAPID use on farms in Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines
Aqua Culture Asia Pacific published a feature on 4 April 2025 on how farms in three countries use RAPID.
Read more→The AlumNUS features Forte Biotech's work on prawn farming diagnostics
The AlumNUS, the NUS alumni magazine, published a feature on 20 February 2025 on how our teammates Kit Yong and Michael Nguyen went from NUS to building diagnostics for prawn farms.
Read more→Forte Biotech listed in the FoodTech 500 in 2024 and 2025
Forte Biotech was listed in Forward Fooding's FoodTech 500 in both 2024 and 2025, in the Food Safety & Traceability category.
Read more→Forte Biotech pitches at the Hatch Blue investor session at Seafood Expo Asia
Our teammate Kit Yong pitched at Hatch Blue's investor session at Seafood Expo Asia in Singapore on 4 September 2024, and SeafoodSource reported on it the next day.
Read more→Vietnamese trade press reports on farmer trials of RAPID in 2024
In mid-2024 three Vietnamese outlets reported on farmers testing their own shrimp with RAPID.
Read more→Forte Biotech and Action on Poverty receive a P4G partnership grant for the Mekong Delta
P4G (Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals) supports a partnership between Forte Biotech and Action on Poverty to bring on-farm disease testing to shrimp farms in the Mekong Delta.
Read more→NUS Enterprise features Forte Biotech in its startup stories
NUS Enterprise, now NUSX, featured Forte Biotech in its series of startup stories about companies that came out of the National University of Singapore.
Read more→Kit Yong from Forte Biotech named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2024
Our teammate Kit Yong was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2024, announced on 15 May 2024. He appears in the Industry, Manufacturing & Energy category of the list's ninth edition.
Read more→e27 reports on Forte Biotech's early detection tests for prawn farms in Vietnam
e27 profiled Forte Biotech's work in Vietnam on 21 March 2024.
Read more→Forte Biotech wins the Food Systems track of the Net Zero Challenge 2023
Forte Biotech won the Food Systems and Sustainable Agriculture track of the Net Zero Challenge 2023, for its on-site RAPID diagnostic tests for early detection of prawn diseases.
Read more→SWITCH Singapore interviews Forte Biotech on food security and farm diagnostics
SWITCH Singapore, run by Enterprise Singapore, published a Q&A with Kit Yong and Michael Nguyen from our team, first published on Startup SG on 1 March 2023.
Read more→Forte Biotech takes third prize at Techfest Vietnam 2022
Forte Biotech won third prize at Techfest 2022, Vietnam's National Innovative Startup Talent Search. The final was held in Binh Duong from 2 to 4 December 2022.
Read more→Hatchery Feed and Management reports on Forte Biotech's on-site diagnostic kit for shrimp farming
Hatchery Feed and Management published one of the first trade articles on Forte Biotech on 27 September 2022. RAPID had been developed through the NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme.
Read more→Forte Biotech named among the "50 Game-Changing Innovators" at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit 2022
The Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit announced its "50 Game-Changing Innovators" on 24 August 2022, and Forte Biotech was on the list.
Read more→Coverage we've missed?
If you've written about Forte Biotech or RAPID and we haven't listed it here, we'd love to know.
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