Delivery Hero will also participate in Zomato’s latest funding round by investing USD 50 MM into Zomato’s global business to become a Top 10 shareholder and also enter into a material operational partnership agreement. Delivery Hero, one of the leading global online food ordering and delivery marketplaces has announced that[Read More…]
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Purple Carrot Introduces New 5-Minute Plant-Based Breakfast and Lunch Options
Purple Carrot’s Extras are designed to ‘prep and go,’ each taking just five minutes to prepare. With a focus on delicious, simple, and healthy ingredients, these meals provide the right nutrients to power customers throughout their day. Purple Carrot, the first and only 100% plant-based meal kit company, is announcing[Read More…]
Ecozen wins Rabobank Food Loss Challenge Asia
The company is enabling the farm-to-fork movement of perishables by providing solar-based cold rooms at the farm level. Indian start-up Ecozen Solutions has won the inaugural Rabobank Food Loss Challenge Asia, which was launched to highlight agri-tech solutions to the growing global problem of food loss and wastage from farm-to-market.[Read More…]
Rabobank Food Loss Challenge Asia announces 20 Startups
The shortlisted start-ups are in the running to win $15,000 Jury’s Prize and/or the $5,000 Audience Prize at the Finale. Food Loss Challenge Asia announces the 20 start-ups who will take centre stage on Pitch Day, 26 October 2018 in Singapore with the Top-5 going to the Finale on 15 November 2018. Through[Read More…]
Alchemy FoodTech raises funds for tackling diabetes
The funding will fuel its next stage of technology and product development, talent acquisition and manufacturing capabilities. Singapore based foodtech startup, Alchemy FoodTech, has secured a seven-digit investment in a pre-series A round led by Heritas Capital Management, and co-led by Seeds Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore. According[Read More…]
MATCh Selects 2018 Finalists
Top agritech startups to showcase their solutions at Greater Mekong Subregion Leaders Summit in Ha Noi The Mekong Agritech Accelerator (MATCh) has announced that 23 startups have been invited to join its 2018 program. The cohort includes 13 startups from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet Nam, as well 10[Read More…]
Dahmakan acquires Polpa to enter Thailand
Dahmakan recently received a $2.6 million round of funding earmarked for its expansion into new markets. Dahmakan, a vertically-integrated Malaysian meal delivery startup, has acquired Polpa to enter Bangkok. Dahmakan was the first Malaysian startup to participate in Y Combinator and recently received a $2.6 million round of funding earmarked for its expansion into[Read More…]
Cargill launches new food startup initiative
The Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator will be based in Minneapolis–Saint Paul. Cargill has collaborated with startup accelerator network Techstars, and water, hygiene, and energy technology provider Ecolab to launch a new initiative to identify and support entrepreneurs and startups that offer unique concepts and products involving agriculture, food-oriented digital technology, food[Read More…]
Singapore firm uses plants to develop meat alternative
Tentatively called Veego, it is possibly the closest made-in-Singapore product to clean meat, which has generated excitement abroad among high-profile investors. With a protein-rich offering derived from plants, but which tastes like chicken, a local start-up has set its sights on pleasing meat eaters while incurring a smaller environmental footprint.[Read More…]
Flying Spark joins IKEA startup camp
The mission is to encourage start-ups that are working to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. Flying SpArk Ltd., a new insect-protein producer, will join the first “IKEA Bootcamp” start-up accelerator. The launch of this unique boot camp generated more than 1,200 applications from 86 different countries, but[Read More…]
