London-based Winnow, an AI-powered food waste solution provider, has acquired Singapore’s Lumitics, a food waste technology company operating in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, the former said in a statement on Thursday, without any financial details.
Lumitics, founded in Singapore in 2017, combines hardware, computer vision, and customer support to track food waste in commercial kitchens. The company was backed by Velocity Ventures, a hospitality technology venture capital firm led by Nicholas and Jonathon Cocks, alongside impact angel investors including Franck Courmont and PropertyGuru founder Steve Melhuish.
Lumitics customers will gain access to Winnow’s VisionAI platform, including its “Throw & Go” system, which uses AI to automatically identify and weigh food waste for removal without any scanning or manual input. Service will continue without interruption and customers will be supported through a phased transition to Winnow’s platform and hardware.
Winnow, founded in 2013, operates in more than 3,500 kitchens across nearly 100 countries and counts IKEA, Hilton, Accor, and Marriott among its clients. The company said its platform helps kitchens collectively save over $100 million in food costs per year and avoid more than 128,000 tonnes of CO2e emissions. It has offices in London, Chicago, Dubai, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca.
Marc Zornes, Co-founder and CEO of Winnow, said Asia-Pacific is a critical market in addressing food waste. The acquisition brings Winnow closer to its goal of preventing $1 billion in food waste, the executive added.
Rayner Loi, Co-founder and CEO of Lumitics, said the company had developed deep technical and operational insight into how food waste manifests across different cuisines, kitchen formats, and hospitality environments across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. Loi said combining that regional knowledge with Winnow’s platform would strengthen its capabilities for Asia-Pacific use cases.
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