| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.10.2024 | Maybelline and Naomi Osaka: A Powerful Partnership for Mental Health Awareness | In a world where mental health often hides in the shadows, Maybelline New York is stepping into the light. The iconic cosmetics brand has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Naomi Osaka, the four-time Grand Slam tennis champion and ... |
| 10.10.2024 | Singapore tech startups amongst top 10 disruptors competing in the L'Oréal Big Bang Beauty Tech Innovation Program Grand Finale | Innovators from the region's dynamic startup ecosystem to compete for a L'Oréal-funded commercial pilot opportunity and a year-long mentorship programme
SINGAPORE, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Four Singapore startups are making their mark ... |
| 27.06.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: quick-grocery app Zepto bags $665m, Lululemon backs $66m round for recycled plastics | The eGrocery category may be down but it’s not out, and certainly not in India, where quick-commerce app Zepto just scored a massive funding round. Turkey’s Getir, also an eGrocery platform, also landed a mega round, while over in Australia... |
| 04.04.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aqua Capital closes $450m fund, Onego Bio ‘poaches’ $40m, BurnBot raises $20m | Agrifood private equity firm Aqua Capital this week announced the close of its $450 million Fund III, which will invest in sustainable agrifood solutions. Other noteworthy raises this week (and there are a bunch) include egg protein startup... |
| 13.03.2024 | Ai Palette Raises US$5.8M in Series A1 Funding | Ai Palette, a Singapore-based artificial intelligence and machine learning company for consumer packaged goods (CPG) development, raised US$5.8M in Series A1 funding.
Backers included Tin Men Capital, Exfinity Ventures and Pi Ventures.
The ... |
| 11.03.2024 | Deals in brief: Ai Palette, Rukita, and Thryve.Earth secure funding, Sunday and Carro complete acquisitions, nine China deals, and more | NewsDeals in brief: Dolbomdream, Prefer, and Lapasar secure funding, BlackRock-Temasek partnership leads investment in Antora Energy, six China and India deals, and more
Written by KrASIA Writers Dolbomdream, Prefer, Lapasar, and more led o... |
| 05.03.2024 | Ai Palette raises $5.7m to expand AI-powered insights platform, adds ‘FoodGPT’ chatbot | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Ai Palette.]
Singapore-based startup Ai Palette has raised $5.7 million in a series A1 funding round to expand its AI-powered platform to help food companies accelerate ... |
| 05.03.2024 | SG-based Ai Palette lands $4m to fuel global growth | Artificial IntelligenceBusiness-to-businessNews
Lokesh Choudhary · 23h ago · 1 min readSG-based Ai Palette lands $4m to fuel global growth
AI Palette’s leadership team / Photo credit: AI Palette
Consumer demand and behavior have been changi... |
| 07.09.2023 | Ai Palette Unveils FoodGPT, the AI Tool Set to Reshape Global F&B Product Development | SINGAPORE, Sept. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The future of the Food & Beverage (F&B) industry is embracing cutting-edge technology, and Ai Palette is leading the charge. In a groundbreaking announcement, Ai Palette introduces FoodGPT, a... |
| 20.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Canopy raises $60m to help forests, CropX nets $30m for farm management | This week, non-profit organization Canopy raised funds to help restore forests and farm management platform CropX landed $30 million. Restaurant tech platform Odeko secured $53 million, while a new CRISPR-based research project kicked off a... |
| 18.04.2023 | EXCLUSIVE: ‘Concept Genie, build me a beverage concept with milk and lemon…’ Ai Palette unveils generative AI tool to speed up new product development | [Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Ai Palette.]
Singapore-based startup Ai Palette is building out its capabilities to help food and beverage companies speed up their development process for new products with a n... |
| 09.09.2022 | Ai Palette Empowers Olam Food Ingredients (ofi) With Tools To Predict Consumer Trends for 2023 And Beyond | SINGAPORE, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovation driven by artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the food ingredient space like never before. Faster adoption of AI in this space leads to a deep understanding of consumer trends ... |
| 07.07.2022 | Startup Wire | Fakin’ the Funk | Hi everyone. Taro here.
I was recently on holiday in Bali. When I was wandering the sprawling streets, I passed by a crypto cafe. It was random—and completely empty. It made me think of how much effort is needed for crypto to gain widesprea... |
| 26.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Stable raises $60m, Galley gets $14m, World Bank’s $30bn food crisis response | Multiple restaurant tech companies made headlines this week, from Galley Solutions’ sizeable Series A fundraise to TRAY’s multi-year deal with IHOP. Meanwhile, a carbon initiative in Africa nabbed its first tranche of funding to restore lan... |
| 19.05.2022 | Ai Palette expands to the US, launches new tool for faster food trend predictions | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Ai Palette.
Food trend-spotting platform Ai Palette is expanding its business to the United States to help consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies better identify consumer prefer... |
| 25.08.2021 | Agrifoodtech Digest: Cargill, Microsoft & Rabobank get in on the ag carbon game | Two of the past week’s biggest stories were AFN exclusives from the ag carbon market, both involving Microsoft: verification platform Regrow’s $17 million Series A round, and agroforestry startup reNature’s successful ‘harvest’ in Brazil. I... |
| 24.08.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Ai Palette raises $4.4m to help brands predict the food trends of the future | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Ai Palette.
Food trend-spotting platform Ai Palette has raised $4.4 million in Series A funding, AFN can exclusively reveal.
Indian VC firms Exfinity Venture Partners and pi Vent... |
| 24.08.2021 | Ai Palette raises $4.4M to help companies react faster to consumer trends | Developing new packaged foods and consumer goods can take a couple years as companies research, prototype and test products. In a society that runs on social media, however, people expect to see trends land on store shelves much more quickl... |
| 24.12.2020 | 5 trends that shaped agrifoodtech in 2020 | 2020 has been a year like no other in living memory for the vast majority of us. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in China at the tail end of last year and gradually engulfed to entire world by the second quarter of this one, has brought ... |
| 26.11.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Plant-based, protein-rich & mind-nourishing: Asia’s food trends for 2021 as revealed by AI | New research from Ai Palette, a startup using artificial intelligence to keep track of consumer food preferences, has pinpointed what may be the hottest food trends in Asian markets next year.
[Disclosure: Ai Palette is an AgFunder portfoli... |
| 17.07.2020 | 5 ASEAN startups tackling the messy middle of the agrifood value chain | While the bulk of agrifoodtech VC funding in Southeast Asia went to downstream categories in 2019, startups sitting in the middle of the value chain are increasingly attracting interest from investors.
According to AgFunder’s first-ever ASE... |
| 02.07.2020 | Alibaba tie-up brings Beyond Meat to Chinese shoppers | Chinese shoppers will be able to buy Beyond Meat products off the shelf for the first time thanks to a tie-up between the US plant-based protein maker and local tech giant Alibaba Group.
It’s the latest partnership that NASDAQ-listed Beyond... |
| 21.05.2020 | New normal: Veteran egg processor and plant-based egg alternative upstart strike a deal | Many of America’s animal protein powerhouses have been on the lookout for ways to capitalise on rising consumer demand for plant-based products. So far, this has led to a pick and mix of three strategic choices. Some have loudly developed a... |
| 14.05.2020 | US plant-based protein investment in 2020 will surpass 2019 as Q1 brings in $741m | US companies creating plant-based alternatives to conventional animal-derived protein raised $741 million in the first quarter of 2020, according to new data from nonprofit alt-protein advocacy group The Good Food Institute and data provide... |
| 04.05.2020 | Cargill unveils PlantEver plant-based brand for Chinese consumers, expands B2B offering | Cargill will begin offering its plant-based meat alternatives directly to consumers in China next month, after trialling the products with enterprise customers in the country.
PlantEver is the name under which the US agribusiness giant’s fa... |
| 30.04.2020 | Plant-based proteins “didn’t benefit” from China’s Covid-19 meat shortages, study says | It appears that producers of plant-based proteins may have a lot more work to do in convincing Chinese consumers that their products are an adequate replacement for animal meat, the findings of a new study suggest.
Consumer interest in plan... |
| 22.08.2019 | Why AgFunder thinks Ai Palette will revolutionize $4tln FMCG industry | Michael Dean, founding partner at AgFunder, led the firm’s investment in Ai Palette – its first in Singapore and second in Asia. AgFunder invested as part of a $1.04 million seed round led by Decacorn Capital, an investor in Lyft, Snapchat,... |
| 22.08.2019 | Why AgFunder thinks Ai Palette will revolutionize $4T FMCG industry | Editor’s Note: Michael Dean, founding partner at AgFunder, led our investment in Ai Palette, our first in Singapore and second in Asia. We invested as part of a S$1.45 million ($1.04 million) seed round led by Decacorn Capital, an investor ... |
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