Startup news and deals
๐จ๐ญ๐งฌ Cradle, a Swiss startup, raised โฌ69.5M for its protein engineering platform, leveraging generative AI to design novel proteins for various applications (among which food).
๐ฆ๐บย ๐ฝ๏ธ Fresho, an Australian startup, raised $17M to empower fresh food wholesale with AI-enabled ordering.
๐ต๐ฑ๐ฒ Foodsi, a Polish startup, raised โฌ1.2M to combat food waste in restaurants and stores through a platform that allows ress to sell surplus food to consumers at discounted prices.
๐ฉ๐ชย ๐ค Foodji, a German startup, secured up to โฌ25M to expand intelligent food vending machines.
๐ฌ๐ง๐ฅฆ Allplants, a UK-based vegan meal kit startup, has moved to appoint administrators due to financial difficulties.
๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฅ Doodhvale Farms, an Indian dairy startup, raised $3M to enhance its operations and expand its fresh dairy product delivery services. Indian โrealโ dairy brand startup are quite interesting to follow: they use the startup growth framework to create brands in a very traditional space.
๐ซ๐ท๐ณ Ekip, a French startup, raised โฌ1.5M for its employee benefits solutions covering meal expenditures.