Startup news and deals
🇨🇭🧬 Cradle, a Swiss startup, raised €69.5M for its protein engineering platform, leveraging generative AI to design novel proteins for various applications (among which food).
🇦🇺 🍽️ Fresho, an Australian startup, raised $17M to empower fresh food wholesale with AI-enabled ordering.
🇵🇱🍲 Foodsi, a Polish startup, raised €1.2M to combat food waste in restaurants and stores through a platform that allows ress to sell surplus food to consumers at discounted prices.
🇩🇪 🤖 Foodji, a German startup, secured up to €25M to expand intelligent food vending machines.
🇬🇧🥦 Allplants, a UK-based vegan meal kit startup, has moved to appoint administrators due to financial difficulties.
🇮🇳🥛 Doodhvale Farms, an Indian dairy startup, raised $3M to enhance its operations and expand its fresh dairy product delivery services. Indian “real” dairy brand startup are quite interesting to follow: they use the startup growth framework to create brands in a very traditional space.
🇫🇷💳 Ekip, a French startup, raised €1.5M for its employee benefits solutions covering meal expenditures.