Founder Bobby Brannigan explains how the Mercato tech platform is keeping mom-and-pop stores in business while also serving food deserts.
Trigo will further deploy its cashierless checkout system across Europe and the US, and develop its store and inventory management software, StoreOS.
The deal strengthens the companies’ business model of selling surplus and ‘ugly’ foods to consumers at discounted prices.
The digital ag marketplace aims to bring fairer prices to restaurants and retailers and more profit to small and medium farmers.
Layoffs, redundancies, and cooling investor sentiment are the major themes for instant grocery delivery startups this week.
China’s Furong Xingsheng and rapid delivery services in the US, Germany, and Turkey made eGrocery the most funded agrifoodtech category of 2021.
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.
It closed its Series B round just three months ago – but says it needed more money for its aggressive expansion plans.
Dingdong Maicai has slashed its IPO pricing by 74% following its Chinese e-grocery rival’s rough debut last Friday.
Competitors Missfresh and Dingdong filed for New York IPOs earlier this month.
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.
Uber is set to announce its Q1 results this week as it continues the hunt for profitability by focusing on its core businesses: transport and food delivery.
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.
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 firm is buying two US startups, with CEO Tim Steiner seeing “significant opportunities” in robotic manipulation solutions for online retail and logistics.
Sun Art operates close to 500 stores across China which have been integrated with Alibaba’s food e-commerce platforms Taoxianda and Tmall Supermarket.
The Indian food delivery unicorn is planning to go public in H1 2021.
