AI-Powered Grocery Startup Vori Raises $22M Series B Funding Round

AI-Powered Grocery Startup Vori Raises $22M Series B Funding Round

Brandon Hill has raised millions in funding guided by the mission of ensuring “every supermarket in America autonomous,” he said on LinkedIn. For many founders, their lived experiences help shape the ventures they go on to create. Hill is a third-generation grocer with grandparents who owned a small store in Oklahoma and parents who’ve had careers in the grocery industry, Fortune reports. In 2020, Hill first stumbled upon the grocery industry’s…

Vori Raises $22M to Help Small Retailers Compete with Walmart and Amazon

San Francisco-based AI grocery startup Vori has raised a $22 million in Series B funding to help independent stores take on Walmart and Amazon. Stacy Brown-Philpot’s Cherryrock Capital led the round, with participation from Greylock Partners and The Factory, Stanford AI researcher Chris Ré’s fund. The capital will be used to bring AI to an industry that, in many cases, still runs on fax machines, paper invoices, and a patchwork of point-of-sale,…

AgriFood Signals: Corteva names seed spinout, Vori bags $22m for AI grocery, FMC sells India biz

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇺🇸 AI grocery startup Vori raises $22 million to help independent retailers compete with Walmart and Amazon Fortune 🇬🇧 Meatly raises £10.4M to build Europe’s largest cultivated meat bioreactor facility in London Tech.eu 🇬🇧 Corvera lands $4.2M to automate CPG operations with AI agents Vest Bee 🇬🇧 Suga…