Data Snapshot: Online Restaurant & Mealkit investment was a $326m variety pack in H1 2021
The category continues to evolve as digital tools blur the lines between mealkits, virtual restaurants, and dark grocery stores.
The category continues to evolve as digital tools blur the lines between mealkits, virtual restaurants, and dark grocery stores.
It’s on a mission to help India’s 100 million dairy farmers and workers get access to formal banking and other financial services.
The Shanghai-based firm has also signed Adisseo, Temasek, and UAE government-linked investor ADQ as LPs for its new China-focused fund.
The Singapore-based startup plans to launch into neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia during Q1 2022.
The Asia Sustainable Foods Platform will co-invest $22.2 million alongside Singapore’s national R&D agency into the new Food Tech Innovation Center.
The Singaporean salad chain sees digitalization, cloud kitchens, and plant-based proteins as the way to get there.
The e-commerce platform — which is reportedly exploring an IPO in the US in 2022 or 2023 — said it recently reached 20 million registered users.
US on-demand delivery service DoorDash is set to acquire Finnish startup Wolt while, multiple companies around the world raised funds for their food-waste-fighting technologies.
It leans on the community group-buying model popularized in China, allowing consumers to form teams in order to make bulk buys on its platform.
Pre- and post-production supply chain processes are already the main contributor to agrifood-related GHG emissions in advanced economies, a new study says.
Swedish company Nick’s grabbed the biggest funding round of the week, while India’s cloud kitchen market grew and Twiga Foods got $50 million to expand across Africa.
Cutting-edge Australian plant biosecurity research has delivered a revolutionary non-toxic and long-acting alternative for controlling stored-grain insect pests.
Green Rebel Cheeze is made is from “locally and sustainably sourced” cashew, potato, and rice, according to the Jakarta-based startup.
TurtleTree said it will use the capital to move closer towards the commercial launch of its first cell-based milk protein products.
The Bangkok-based startup makes pet food products out of black soldier fly larvae, feeding them “a diet from pre-consumed food waste” and other “food surpluses.”
The Melbourne-based startup has combined an easy-to-use handheld scanner with machine learning analytics to make non-destructive fruit testing and future quality predictions as easy as picking up cheap mangoes in summer.
The Abu Dhabi-based company will add over 100 crops to its portfolio, as well as new CEA technologies, through its collaboration with PlanTFarm.
The Australian startup inoculates crops with symbiotic microbial fungi that boost plants’ natural ability to sequester carbon in the soil they grow in.
The top three destination countries for agrifoodtech investment remained the same in H1 2021 – but there were a few surprises further down the list.
The Patna-based startup says it serves 650,000 smallholders and collaborates with 3,000 rural micro-entrepreneurs.
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