
RootCamp is looking for agritech startups to join its latest batch & disrupt the food value chain
Are you an agritech startup that wants to scale its business to its full potential and have a positive impact in the agrifood industry?
Are you an agritech startup that wants to scale its business to its full potential and have a positive impact in the agrifood industry?
The Paris-based platform allows European farmers to browse and buy 150,000 products from 350 ag equipment manufacturers.
Having overtaken e-commerce behemoth Alibaba on the active buyers front, Pinduoduo’s looking upstream at alt-protein and logistics tech, its sustainability head tells AFN.
Both companies source fresh produce from farmers and agribusinesses and deliver it to consumers, who can order groceries through a mobile app.
It started out as a last-mile food delivery app in 2011 before branching out to become a ‘full stack’ logistics and fulfillment platform.
The deal will see VinCommerce partner with the Chinese tech giant’s Lazada platform to build an e-grocery service in the country.
Gojek edges Singapore-based rival Grab – which is in the midst of its own $40 billion SPAC merger – as Indonesia’s most popular food delivery app.
Dingdong Maicai said it will use the funding for regional expansion, enhancement of its fresh produce supply chain capabilities, and to hire more personnel.
The Singapore-based app claims to be the category leader for online food delivery, ride-hailing, and digital payments in Southeast Asia.
Rakuten, Japan’s top e-commerce company, entered into a strategic alliance with Walmart in 2018 which saw the pair launch the country’s leading e-grocery service.
The Toronto-based startup is hoping to digitalize an antiquated industry that relies on middlemen to broker deals between buyers and sellers.
TenderCuts is the first consumer-focused investment by the VC arm of state-owned agricultural bank NABARD, the fund’s CEO Rajesh Ranjan tells AFN.
“We are excited to accelerate Seiyu’s digital transformation […] to become Japan’s leading omnichannel retailer,” said new CEO Tsuneo Okubo.
Grofers is reportedly targeting a ‘reverse merger’ that would value it at around $1 billion after negotiations with prospective buyers hit a dead end.
The Mexican e-grocer announced its $65m Series A led by General Atlantic this week, the biggest Series A round in Latin America for a decade.
Drizly, which hosts thousands of merchants across 1,400 US cities on its alcohol delivery marketplace, will be integrated into Uber Eats.
The Iowan startup analyzes transactions involving second-hand farm equipment to provide price transparency through real-time sales comparisons.
The Changsha-based platform allows communities to band together to purchase fresh produce in bulk. But suppliers and supermarkets say the model’s stealing their business.
The e-grocer – which was China’s top-funded agrifood startup in 2019 – raised $495 million for its Series F round earlier this year.
It’s the fourth fundraise of 2020 for the Chinese startup, which allows end customers and businesses to team up and purchase produce in bulk from farmers.