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This week: fresh water, pizza robots, rapid delivery, Coca-Cola acquisition, and Indian farm management.

| View in browser November 11, 2021   In the news 🍔 Beyond Meat stock tumbles to 52-week low, CBNC reported. 🏍 Uber Jumps Into Europe's Rapid Grocery Delivery Market With 15-Minute Service in Paris, Newsbreak reported. 🦍 Tesco gears up for ultra-fast delivery with Gorillas partnership via RetailWeek. 💧 The quality and quantity of global fresh water is declining. This poses threats to the Food and Agriculture industries, which use 70% of fresh water globally in their production process, a new report by Ceres finds out.   🍕 Hyper-Robotics Launches a Robotic Pizza Restaurant-in-a-Box via The Spoon.   💼 We're hiring! If you are interested in delivering industry-leading research (or working in product, sales or marketing), check out our jobs page, or reply to this email.   Latest foodtech deals Select deals from last week: 🇺🇸 Daring Foods, a plant-based chicken company, raised $65 million Series C.  Founded in 2018, the company has already raised $113 million in 3 funding rounds since September last year. The company also announced launching their products in 3,000 Walmart locations. This doubles Daring Foods' retail presence, Fooddive reported. Its products can already be found in Whole Foods, Sprouts Farmers Market, Korger and online retailers such as Gopuff and Imperfect Foods. There's now abundance of plant-based meat consumer products on the market. Find 170+ plant-based meat startups in this interactive landscape. 🇦🇪 Pure Harvest Smart Farms, a UAE-based vertical farming company, raised $64 growth equity to accelerate product development. The company currently operates three vertical farms in the desert in the UAE. It has two more vertical farms under development in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The company claims their technology is 7x more efficient than typical greenhouse farms in the desert and 30x more efficient than traditional field farms. Following this round, Pure Harvest Smart Farms is one of the most funded vertical farming startups globally.   Other notable foodtech deals from around the globe:  🇮🇳 DeHaat, an India-based end-to-end farm management company, raised $115 million Series D. This is the largest agritech funding in India in 2021.  DeHaat helps farmers source inputs such as fertilizers and seeds, and find buyers for their produce 🇺🇸 California-based Shiru secured $17 million Series A to develop plant-based food ingredients. It is one of the 166 startups that enable alternative protein consumer products. 🇺🇸 RealEats, a NY-based meal kits delivery service, raised $16 million Series A to expand across the US and move in a new facility. Explore how it compares to other meal kits delivery startups in this interactive landscape.  Read up on all the latest foodtech deals in Dealroom.co Foodtech exits:  🇧🇴 The food delivery and ride-sharing app Yummy acquired Yaigo, a Bolivia-based logistics services company, to accelerate its international expansion. Yummy, which raised $18 million 11 days ago, operates in Venezuela, Peru and Chile. It is now expanding to Paraguay and Bolivia, where Yaigo already operates.   🇺🇸 Coca-Cola acquired BodyArmor, a sports drink producer, for $5.6 billion. This is the Coca-Cola's largest acquisition ever. BodyArmor has sales in excess of $1.0 billion, Fooddive reported. The acquisition fits with Coca-Cola's strategy to become a "total beverage company".  Read up on all the latest foodtech exits in Dealroom.co   Tip of the week   The European foodtech ecosystem is now worth €185 billion, a 45% increase since December last year. However, 76% of the value comes from food logistics and delivery startups.    Dive in   🗺️ Foodtech investment heatmap 🎓 Foodtech university spinouts 🦄 108 Foodtech unicorns and $1B+ exits 📈 Fastest hiring Foodtech companies founded by serial entrepreneurs     Ivan Draganov Senior Innovation Analyst Dealroom About this newsletter This is Dealroom's weekly Foodtech newsletter.  You can subscribe here to get more industry-specific intelligence on the evolving world of Foodtech, emerging trends, and game-changing startups. Delivered on Tuesdays.   Dealroom.co, Cornelis Dirkszstraat 27-2, 1056 TP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Manage preferences |
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