Brief: Gates Foundation leads $707m investment in Dutch e-grocer Picnic
September 17, 2021
Picnic dispatches groceries from strategically located, automated hubs to its customers’ doorsteps using electric minivans.
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Brief: Chinese e-grocery giants Dingdong, Missfresh file for US IPOs
June 11, 2021
Both companies source fresh produce from farmers and agribusinesses and deliver it to consumers, who can order groceries through a mobile app.
Brief: Walmart, Tencent join $2.2bn funding for Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten
March 15, 2021
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.
Why AgFunder invested in URB-E
March 8, 2021
It’s environmentally clean, growing at double digits, and able to increase the convenience of doorstep grocery delivery, writes Manuel Gonzalez.
Brief: Rakuten, KKR buy into Walmart’s Japanese supermarket giant Seiyu
March 3, 2021
“We are excited to accelerate Seiyu’s digital transformation […] to become Japan’s leading omnichannel retailer,” said new CEO Tsuneo Okubo.
Last we heard from Good Eggs, it was in a multi-city retreat. Now it’s expanding with $100m in funding
February 4, 2021
Bouyed by booming demand for e-grocery amid Covid-19 and some promising unit economics, Good Eggs is expanding beyond the Bay Area.
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