FoodTech

Foodpanda Malaysia’s statement came after local media reported that several vendors on the platform have called for protests against ‘hidden’ or promotion charges which caused them to incur losses.

Funds raised in this round will be utilized to scale CloudEats’ proprietary smart kitchen technology, open cloud kitchens in more markets across the region, and develop new champion brands like Burger Beast, which has now become one of the top recognized burger brands in the Philippines, CloudEats said in a statement.

WTH Foods launched a research and development (R&D) facility to enhance the texture and taste of its plant-based products. It will use the facility to hone its plant-based versions of popular Filipino dishes and products to target more than 2.2 million Filipinos living away from home with expansion plans to Singapore, other markets across Southeast Asia and…

The biggest challenge in opening Korean restaurants overseas is educating people on the cultural differences within Asia and explaining that each country is different with its unique culture and culinary traditions and flavors. All of Asia should not be grouped together on one plate--each country and its cuisine should be celebrated as its own.

With this fresh funding, ESB will further expand its proposition including tech-enabled upselling features, enhanced business intelligence (BI) platform, delivery solutions, payment solutions, financing, and human resources information system (HRIS) to become the dominant end to end F&B business operating platform.

Africa Eats is a novel investment holding company that takes 27 graduates from the Fledge accelerator and which answers the question of "how do you build out the food/ag supply chain across Africa to end hunger and poverty?" The answer is a mashup of venture capital, business accelerator, and Berkshire Hathaway.

Lever VC is also actively speaking with investors interested in Lever VC Fund II, which will begin raising early next year.

Growth is expected to be fastest in emerging markets such as Myanmar, Vietnam and the Philippines, with the total regional online food delivery Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) to more than triple from $9 billion in 2020 to $28 billion in 2025.

With the rise of delivery, the importance of a strong digital marketing plan becomes vital. Digital marketing will be the key to push your grand opening, promote your restaurant and get customers excited and ordering. Customer insights can then be leveraged to maximize customer acquisition and retention.

Fresh off a US$350 million Series C round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, Chicago-based fungi protein startup Nature’s Fynd is bypassing typical alt-protein markets in Europe to expand across Asia Pacific aggressively in 2022. Nature’s Fynd Chief Marketing Officer Karuna Rawal tells TechNode Global why.