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DECODING
FOODTECH
Shivansh Mehendiratta
CONTENTS 1
Introduction ...............................................2
Funding .......................................................3
Value Chain Analysis ……………………………….4
FoodTech Trends Matrix………………………….6
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Introduction
“All the big players in the industry So far technology has been the solution all the
face the challenge of how to thrive in a human problems, yet again we lie our eyes on
technology to come in place.
landscape where consumers are
hungrier and more impatient than With such enormous consumer desires, food-
ever. Either give the consumers the tech needs massive technological disruption,
perfect experience or forget them because the current value chain does not seem
forever, this is the severity of the to satiate the human desires.
‘impatience’ of consumers, especially
All the big players in the industry face the
when it comes to food.”
challenge of how to thrive in a landscape
” where consumers are hungrier and more
Evolution of food is happening and it is impatient than ever. Either give the consumers
happening at an unprecedented rate. This has the perfect experience or forget them forever,
been possible because of the fusion of food this is the severity of the ‘impatience’ of
with technology giving birth to a new industry consumers, especially when it comes to food.
all together, the food-tech.
Businesses will need to have the right
With major chunk of disposable income of an capturing strategy, with the operating model
individual being spent on food and and technical architecture to realize it.
conglomerates trying to capture that chunk,
startups lay their eyes on food-tech to make
the experience better than ever before despite
the competitive landscape.
Funding
Alcoholic Beverages
Bottling & Distribution
Candy & snackfoods
Canned and frozen foods
Dairy products
Food safety & preservation
Foodservice
Fresh foods
Health & Wellness (non-internet/mobile)
Ingredients, flavoring & condiments
Meat, Fish, Seafood & Alternative Proteins
Non-alcoholic beverages
Wholesale food distributors
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Value Chain Analysis
Lab prepared meat, this has long way 3. Food Preparation: Traditionally, the
to go since this is a very recent restaurants were the point of food
accomplishment. As demand for meat preparation and food consumption, both.
is expected to rise by 70 percent by the With increasing popularity of food
delivery platforms like Zomato and
year 2025, the mass production of lab
UberEats, they have become mere point of
prepared meet can help meet the
food preparation.
requirements. According to a research,
lab prepared meat can reduce Eventually this gave rise to the concept of
greenhouse emissions by up to 96 ghost kitchens (or cloud kitchens).
percent and free up land used for
feeding and slaughtering those animals
by 99 percent.
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