Bunny Maicai nets funding, Meituan expands group buying as China’s appetite for fresh produce grows
September 8, 2020
Bunny Maicai is one of several ‘group-buying’ startups in China to have pulled in big bucks lately.
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Google leads $28m Dunzo funding as Indian food e-commerce receives pandemic pickup
September 2, 2020
Delivery app Dunzo reported a tripling in demand amid the country’s continuing Covid-19 outbreak, while rival e-grocer BigBasket saw new customer numbers rise 84%.
Food4All is fighting farmers’ Covid-19 marketing burnout with technology
August 7, 2020
Food4All is using a $100k loan from the USDA’s Small Business Innovation Research program to help small and midsize farms tap into wholesale and institutional buyers.
Nice Tuan nets another $80m amid China’s fresh food group-buying hype
July 29, 2020
It’s one of several online group-buying platforms for fresh produce in China that has raised major funding from investors in recent months.
Chinese produce platform Tongcheng Life closes $200m Series C round led by livestreaming firm
June 11, 2020
The Suzhou-based startup allows customers to group-buy fresh produce directly from farmers by placing orders via WeChat or local stores.
Grab eyes Southeast Asia’s rural economy for post-pandemic growth
June 9, 2020
The Singapore-based unicorn is extending its order-anything ‘super app’ platform to the region’s farmers, fishermen, and food traders to keep things ticking as Covid-19 continues.
Will meal kits make it to the 10-year mark?
March 13, 2020
As meal kit companies struggle to secure customer loyalty and combat churn, online grocery is gaining traction. Could dedicated meal kits soon be extinct?
From AgFunder with love: Global agri-foodtech funding reaches $19.8bn in 2019
February 25, 2020
there are a few ways to interpret this $19.8 billion figure. Though it signals a 4.8% drop in funding and 15% decline in deal activity year-over-year, it also represents a staggering 250% growth in five years, and proves that the huge scale of investments in 2018 was no freak outlier.
evokeAG
February 18, 2020
evokeAG is the Asia Pacific’s largest agrifood tech event. Held in Melbourne on 18-19 February 2002, evokeAG brings together the industry’s brightest and boldest minds
Perdue launches direct-to-consumer e-commerce platform
January 14, 2020
The major poultry products producer hopes to eventually integrate the platform with grocery retailer’s ecommerce offerings to enable digital basket sharing.
Is every day Cyber Monday now?
December 2, 2019
As US consumers show more interest in online offerings, retailers are upping their digital game this holiday season — including food retailers.
Regen Ag Renegades: Blue Nest Beef is offering consumers “bird-friendly” beef
November 26, 2019
Could partnering with a nature conservancy like the National Audubon Society help define a domestic supply of regeneratively-raised beef amid a flood of meat imports parading as domestic products?
ChinaSF Food Export Roadshow
November 3, 2019
November 3-9 | Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing The ChinaSF Food Export Roadshow is an opportunity for food and beverage companies to form partnerships and access
ChinaSF Food Export Roadshow
November 3, 2019
November 3-9 | Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing The ChinaSF Food Export Roadshow is an opportunity for food and beverage companies to form partnerships and access
Skål!: €17 million more for Matsmart, Sweden’s surplus food marketplace
October 10, 2019
LeadX Capital Partners, which is backed by German retailer Metro Group, led the round, joined by the likes of Ingka Group (IKEA), Northzone, D-Ax, and Norrsken.
BRIEF: Vegetarian meal delivery startup Simple Feast raises $35m Series B to take on the US
September 20, 2019
Danish vegetarian meal delivery startup Simple Feast plans on taking on the US, after its latest funding round. But will Americans have the appetite?
Are Food Delivery Apps the Death Knell of Home Cooking? Gousto Says No with Extra £30m Funding
July 18, 2019
Gousto is a bet on people still finding enough joy and value in cooking their own meals at home — even those in big cities starved for time or charged a king’s ransom for every inch of rental space, writes Richard Martyn-Hemphill.
Is UK eGrocer Ocado’s $22m Vertical Farming Investment a Bargain? – updated
June 12, 2019
A $100m Series B round for Germany’s Infarm soon eclipsed Ocado’s deal with JCB and 80 Acres. But has the UK eGrocer got a good deal?
Asia Funding Frenzy: 5 Food & Farm Tech Startups Raise $40m
May 30, 2019
Five startups raised $40m in funding this week for a variety of tools primarily aimed at helping farmers capture better margins and bring consumers better offerings.
Future Food: How Whole Foods’ Walter Robb Thinks About Food Tech and The Future of Grocery
May 1, 2019
In this second edition of Future Food, I chat to Robb about his food preferences, his contrarian views of the plant-based meat trend, the role of big data in food, and how the Amazon deal came about.
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