The Growing Business of Foodtech

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United States

Ahmad AlZaini: Revolutionizing the F&B Industry in the GCC

Revolutionizing the F&B Industry in the GCC: A Digital Transformation Story

FoodTech

The Evolving Landscape of FoodTech: Challenges and Opportunities

Foodtech's on a Mission: The Dynamic Forces Fueling Foodtech's Rise

The Dynamic Forces Fueling Foodtech's Rise

Charting the Foodtech Frontier and Its Influence on the Value Chain

The Foodtech Frontier & Foodtech Along the Value Chain

Saudi Arabia

Demystifying Foodtech: Why It Matters

2023 Foodtech Revolution: Emerging Industry Trends

Revolutionizing the Foodtech Industry: Emerging Trends in 2023

Now, Let’s Meet Some of the Biggest Foodtech Unicorns That Are Making Waves in the Foodtech Industry, from around the World

Meet Some of the Biggest Foodtech Unicorns Making Waves in the Global Foodtech Industry

Six Graphs that Map Out Foodtech in MENA (including Israel)

6 Graphs that Map Out Foodtech in MENA

Unveiling Data Insights Behind the Rise of Foodtech

Data Points That Help Explain the Emergence of Foodtech

Global Foodtech Unicorn Success Stories

India

Foodtech Startups in the Middle East Raise over US $2.6 Billion in the past Two Years

Infobytes

Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Food Production Contribute to a Quarter of the Global Amount

Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Food Production

See How Food Technology Evolves Along the Value Chain

Foodtech Tech Along the Value Chain

A Brief History of Innovations in Food from Primitive Tools to Louis Pasteur's Discoveries in the Late 18th Century

A Brief History of Innovations in Food

Food Tech Constitutes a Vast Ecosystem of Technologies from Agricultural Tech to Surplus and Waste Management

Food Tech Constitutes a Vast Ecosystem of Technologies

Funding Type Splits and Average Funding Evolution for Foodtech and F&B Scaleups Across MENA from 2010 to H1 2023

Funding Type Splits & Average Funding Evolution for Foodtech and F&B Scaleups Across MENA

MENA Foodtech Is All about Food Delivery, Q-Commerce & Cloud Kitchens & B2B Marketplaces

MENA's Foodtech and F&B Industry: Scaleup Funding Splits by Sub-Sector & Country

More Food Security Issues We Face that Foodtech Could Help Address

Food Security Issues that Foodtech Could Help Address (2)

Global Foodtech Deal Activity by Quarter has Seen a Declining Trend Since Q1 2022

Global Foodtech Deal Activity by Quarter (2018-2023)

Global Foodtech Exit Activity by Year Showing the Foodtech Exits Slow Down in Q1 2023

Global Foodtech Exit Activity by Year (2018-2023)

Cumulative Number of Foodtech Unicorns Shows the World has More Foodtech Unicorns, Doubling in the Past Two Years

Cumulative Number of Foodtech Unicorns (to Q1 2022)

In the MENA Region, Foodtech & F&B Industry Number of Funding Rounds Split Between Scaleup and Startups

Foodtech & F&B Industry Number of Funding Rounds Split Between Scaleup and Startups

Pure Harvest's Entrepreneurial Journey as the Pioneer in the Sustainable Agriculture

Pure Harvest's Entrepreneurial Journey

UAE & Saudi Startups Dominate the Top 5 Most Funded Foodtech Scaleups in MENA List

Top 5 Most Funded Foodtech Scaleups in MENA (2023)

Over the Past Decade, Restaurant Management Software VC Deal Activity Has Seen a Significant Rise

Restaurant Management Software VC Deal Activity

The Top 10 Saudi-Born Startups That Have Been Funded to Date Plus Honorable Mentions

Top 10 Funded KSA-Born Startups to Date + Honourable Mentions

Foodics has Been the Region’s Most Prominent Foodtech-Meets-Fintech Player Since 2014

Foodics Growth Story in Numbers (2014-2023)

Which MENA and GCC Countries Account for Largest Funding Raised by Foodtech Scaleups?

Which MENA Countries Account for Largest Funding Raised by Foodtech Scaleups?

Foodtech & F&B Industry Total Scaleup Funding has Secured a Total of $2.93 Billion in Funding Between January 2021 to June 2023

Foodtech & F&B Industry Total Scaleup Funding by Year

Global Foodtech Funding Deal Activity by Sector

Global Foodtech Deal Activity by Sector

Global Foodtech Deal Activity by Year (2018 to First Quarter of 2023)

Global Foodtech Deal Activity by Year (2018 to Q1 2023)

Food Security Issues that Foodtech Solutions Could Help Address

Food Security Issues that Foodtech Could Help Address

Top 10 Most Funded Foodtech Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region to Date

Top 10 Most Funded Foodtech Scaleups in MENA to Date

Special Reports

Special Report: "The Growing Business of Foodtech"

Special Report: "Opportunities in Web3"

Opportunities in Web3

Crypto, Blockchain & Web3

Dubai's Venture Capital Ecosystem

Entrepreneurship

The Future of Fintech in Africa

Fintech

Diriyah and the Giga Projects: Defining the New Saudi Arabia

Tourism

Saudi Arabia's Startup Ecosystem Evolution 2010-2022

The Evolution of Saudi Arabia's Startup Ecosystem 2010-2022

Dubai's Digital Economy and Its Growing Startup Ecosystem

Dubai’s Digital Economy and Its Expanding Startup Ecosystem

MENA's M&A Landscape 2017-2022: A Comprehensive Review

The Middle East & North Africa’s M&A Landscape 2017-2022

Sustainable Innovations and Startups in the MENA Region

Sustainability & ClimateTech

Innovations In International Trade

Economies

Egypt's Burgeoning Start-Up Ecosystem

Dubai’s Roadmap to Becoming the Digital Economy Capital of the World

The Electric Vehicle Revolution: Growth & Challenges Ahead

The Electric Vehicle Revolution Has Arrived

Bringing The World to Saudi

Shaping the Future of Fintech in MENA

Shaping The Future of Fintech

An ultimate guide to fintech in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The Crypto Universe: Insights into Blockchain & DeFi

The Crypto Universe

Primed for Growth Cloud Kitchens in the GCC

Primed for Growth: Cloud Kitchens in the GCC

<a href="https://lucidityinsights.com/">Lucidity Insights</a> in partnership with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/en-ae" target="_blank">Entrepreneur Middle East</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foodics.com/">Foodics</a>&nbsp;recently published a Special Report titled &ldquo;The Growing Business of Foodtech,&rdquo; which sheds light on the global foodtech industry and its unicorns, and details the hot up-and-coming trends in the sector according to the latest funding data. &nbsp;

Globally, <a href="https://lucidityinsights.com/topics/food-tech">foodtech</a> hit an all-time-high in 2021, when the sector raised a landmark US $46.8 billion across 1,987 deals. 2022 saw a market stabilization back to the US $21.4 billion invested, which was typical of years before. Time will tell if the VC winter has taken hold of the sector in 2023, but preliminary data for the year show a slowdown in foodtech exits. By the end of Q1 2023, there were only 15 exits for VC-backed foodtech startups worth a combined US $1 billion. There were no IPOs and only one buyout, leaving M&amp;A deals to make up the majority of exits during the quarter, indicating a period of consolidation has begun. &nbsp;

<img src="https://cdn.lucidityinsights.com/uploads/foodtech-2/infobytes/03.jpg" />&nbsp;Due to the popularity of food delivery marketplaces, aggregators and q-commerce players feeding consumers&rsquo; appetites for quickly delivered groceries and ready-to-eat meals, e-Commerce still dominates Foodtech&rsquo;s deal activity around the world; but it is alternative protein or Alt-Protein players that have been steadily growing their share of investor funding in the past 18 months. If it&rsquo;s lab-grown meat via cell cultivation, or plant-based or insect-based meat, it seems investors are hoping the reduced ecological footprint and lower time and resource cost will mean efficiencies to meet the world&rsquo;s ever-growing demand for protein. As the global human population grows from 8 billion to 10 billion by 2050, there will be much work to be done to ensure all mouths are fed, and little food produced is wasted. &nbsp;

Other hot trends discussed in the Special Report include predictive analytics used in Agtech, 3D printing food, personalized nutrition, restaurant SaaS, artificial intelligence minimizing food wastage, creating efficiencies in the supply chain, and new fintechs delivering quick financial aid to f&amp;b establishments, based on algorithm&rsquo;s which determine ability to pay, based on daily customer orders and POS data. &nbsp;

<img src="https://cdn.lucidityinsights.com/uploads/foodtech-2/articles/launch/2.jpg" />&nbsp;Beyond the global data, the report highlights the regional heavy-weights in the Foodtech scene, from unicorn <a href="https://lucidityinsights.com/spotlights/kitopi-dubais-latest-foodtech-unicorn">Kitopi</a>&nbsp;to expected soonicorns, <a href="https://lucidityinsights.com/spotlights/foodics-the-regions-most-prominent-foodtech-meets-fintech-player">Foodics</a>&nbsp;and Pure Harvest; each of which have made the region&rsquo;s most funded foodtech startups list. Others like KLC Virtual Restaurants, Yango Tech, KASO, and Yango Delivery are carving out market leading roles for themselves, and expanding methodically across the region. These are just some of the 356 foodtech startups from across the MENA region that have raised some kind of capital since January 2010. &nbsp;

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<h3>Read the full <a href="https://lucidityinsights.com/reports/the-growing-business-of-foodtech">Special Report</a> to get all the market data, insights and up-to-date stories on these remarkable entrepreneurial journeys. &nbsp;</h3>

Spotlights

Pure Harvest Smart Farms: MENA’s Next Agtech ‘Uni-Camel’

KASO Is Reshaping the Food Procurement Industry, Looking To Achieve $1 Billion GMV by 2024

KLC Virtual Restaurants: Cloud Kitchens Re-Imagined

Yango Tech: Tech Stack for Profitable E-Grocery

Yango Delivery: The First Choice for Last Mile Delivery

Foodics: The Region’s Most Prominent Foodtech-Meets-Fintech Player

Videos

Foodtech's average funding round sizes continue to rise across all stages

Venture Funding in Restaurant Management Software have surged in the last decade

VC investments in Restaurant SaaS have skyrocketed in the last decade

Israel

Which countries lead MENA Foodtech, securing 80% of startup funding?

Israel and UAE dominate MENA Foodtech, securing 80% of startup funding

MENA Foodtech Scaleups have raised more than $2.9 billion in the last 3 years

MENA Foodtech Scaleups have raised more than $2.9B in the last 3 years

6 Foodtech Sectors Attracting Investors in the Middle East and North Africa

Which foodtech sectors are attracting investors in MENA?

How Many FoodTech Scaleups Are Located in the MENA Region?

MENA is home to 138 Foodtech Scaleups

What is the Current Number of FoodTech Unicorns Worldwide in 2023?

How many foodtech unicorns are in the world today?

Alternative Proteins in the MENA region: Already sizzling with over $200 Million raised in Q1 2023!

Alt-Proteins: Already sizzling with over $200 Million raised in Q1 2023!

How Can FoodTech Help Reduce Environmental Impacts?

Foodtech's Untapped Power in Reducing Environmental Impacts

Is the VC Winter Affecting Foodtech Sector?

Is the Funding Winter Affecting Foodtech?

Could Foodtech Innovation Be the Answer to Food Security Challenges?

How could Foodtech Help Solve Food Security Issues?

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