It links suppliers and buyers of fresh produce across the country, opening up more buy and sell opportunities while also facilitating timely payments.
The Jakarta-based startup is relying on micro-fulfillment, refrigeration, and last-mile, ‘in-time’ delivery – as well as its 1,000-plus farmer partners – to do it.
The London-based startup allows foodservice clients to buy meat, seafood, and plant-based protein collectively and have it delivered sustainably and transparently.
GoFlux joins the growing number of startups that are streamlining antiquated aspects of the agricultural supply chain using digital technologies.
Pinduoduo served 788 million annual active buyers in 2020 – the first time it has overtaken Alibaba in user numbers.
The Buenos Aires-based startup helps commodities buyers to find growers that use certain sustainability practices – while getting growers a better price for their efforts.
The Chengdu startup can “grow into a benchmark enterprise in the industry” thanks to its tech-led approach to transporting farm produce, said one investor.
Spain’s Glovo and Turkey’s Getir are both targeting the boom in demand for so-called ‘q-commerce’ – ultra-quick, 30-minute-max delivery of groceries purchased online.
The UK-based startup aggregates data from cropfields, on-farm sensors, stores, shipments, and satellites to drive efficiency across the entire agrifood supply chain.
While the bulk of funding went to downstream categories in 2019, startups in the middle of the agrifood value chain are attracting more and more interest.
The Lagos-based startup seeks to bring some formality to Africa’s extensive, informal agrifood supply chain, by providing stakeholders with digital tools and mentoring.
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The Guangzhou-based startup raised a total of $29 million across two rounds last year. On-demand giant Meituan Dianping co-led the latest fundraise.
Sequoia Capital and Alpha JWC Ventures co-led the round, which brings the B2B marketplace’s total funding to $36 million in just 15 months.
Fulcrum raised the fund from a pool of high net worth investors to support early-stage upstream agriculture technologies in animal health, precision agriculture, food safety, and supply chain logistics
IntelloLabs is working to solve the logistical and potentially brand-busting challenge of quality control in the high-value crops industry using computer vision.
Europe’s agrifood tech ecosystem raised just 9% of the funding that went to foodtech and agtech startups globally in 2018. But deal activity increased 23% as agrifood tech startups in the region closed a similar number of deals as in the US.
Handheld near-infrared spectral imaging devices are giving cocoa farmers and processors a way to set fairer prices in a matter of seconds while also cutting
Startups in the category we call Midstream Technologies raised $1.35 billion in 2018, climbing from the third-best funded category to the second-best funded sector behind Ag Biotechnology.
It is possible for as many as one out of 15 containers to get rejected when they arrive at their destination, an expensive outcome when containers carrying high-value food can be worth as much as $500,000.
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