| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.03.2021 | China single-handedly kept downstream agrifoodtech funding afloat in 2020 | AgFunder and AFN recently released the latest edition of our annual report on global agrifoodtech funding [disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company].
In past editions, we’ve regularly separated out US data, given that the country has be... |
| 25.02.2021 | 2020’s agrifoodtech investment story speaks of resilience, maturity and big bets on what comes next | Zero percent of us would choose to go through another year like 2020 (2021 isn’t exactly spectacular yet, either). But for the agrifoodtech sector, we pen 2020 as the year investors got serious. We could thank the pandemic… but then, why wo... |
| 25.02.2021 | 2020’s agrifoodtech investment story speaks of resilience, maturity & big bets on what comes next | Zero percent of us would choose to go through another year like 2020 (2021 isn’t exactly spectacular yet, either). But for the agrifoodtech sector, we pen 2020 as the year investors got serious.
We could thank the Covid-19 pandemic… but the... |
| 01.02.2021 | Farm-to-factory cold chain platform Xianshenghuo hauls in $93m for Series A round | Xianshenghuo, which provides cold chain solutions for the transporting fresh produce, has raised ¥600 million ($92.9 million) in Series A funding, according to an announcement it posted on its WeChat channel.
Funds affiliated with Beijing i... |
| 30.12.2020 | The 20 highest-funded agrifoodtech startups of 2020 | It safe to say that 2020 has been a difficult year for many of us – to say the very least. But as the global Covid-19 pandemic has rumbled on, agrifoodtech startups have continued to attract capital from investors.
They’ve had to work even ... |
| 18.12.2020 | Xingsheng raises $700m from JD as group buying faces food industry backlash | E-commerce giant JD, which claims to be “the largest retailer in China,” has agreed to invest $700 million into Xingsheng Youxuan — also known as Furong Xingsheng — a community group-buying platform for fresh produce and other groceries.
Ac... |
| 01.12.2020 | Farm produce platform Nice Tuan makes it $450m funding for the year with Alibaba-led tranche | Nice Tuan, a Chinese group-buying platform for farm produce and other groceries, has raised $196 million in a “Series C3” round co-led by Alibaba and Hong Kong’s Jeneration Capital.
Other investors to participate included CDH Investments, C... |
| 08.09.2020 | Bunny Maicai nets funding, Meituan expands group buying as China’s appetite for fresh produce grows | Chinese e-grocery startup Bunny Maicai has raised “tens of millions of dollars” in Series A investment, with the VC arm of real estate giant Country Garden joining the round alongside Joy Capital and ZWC Partners according to local media re... |
| 29.07.2020 | Nice Tuan nets another $80m amid China’s fresh food group-buying hype | Nice Tuan, a Chinese e-grocer that allows customers to group-buy fresh produce and other goods, has received $80 million in a ‘Series C2’ financing led by alternative asset manager CDH Investments.
California-based GGV Capital, China Minshe... |
| 11.06.2020 | Chinese produce platform Tongcheng Life closes $200m Series C round led by livestreaming firm | Tongcheng Life, an online portal that facilitates group-buying of fresh produce, has raised $200 million in Series C funding.
Half of the capital came from Joyy, a NASDAQ-listed, Guangzhou-based tech company that runs several social media a... |
