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Zomato picks up stake in robotics firm Mukunda Foods


Bengaluru: Meals supply firm Zomato Ltd has acquired a 16.66% stake in Mukunda Foods Personal Restricted for $5 million, the corporate stated in a regulatory submitting on Tuesday.

In a notification filed with BSE, Zomato stated it has acquired a stake within the food robotics company, which designs and manufactures good robotic tools to automate meals preparation for eating places.

Within the submitting, Zomato stated Mukunda’s merchandise assist eating places scale quickly whereas sustaining consistency in meals high quality and buyer expertise throughout shops.

“Mukunda additionally helps eating places to grow to be extra environment friendly by decreasing manpower prices and wastage, and growing kitchen throughput. Our funding will assist Mukunda Meals scale sooner, scale back restaurant meals costs, develop margins, and improve buyer delight,” the corporate stated.

It added the funding was topic to the fulfilment of sure customary situations and different phrases and situations agreed upon by the events.

Mukunda Meals Personal Restricted was cofounded by Eshwar K Vikas and Sudeep Sabat in 2012. In line with the corporate’s web site, it has developed six merchandise which were put in in over 2,000 areas. It counts Wow Momo, Chaayos and Swiggy amongst its purchasers.

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Deepinder Goyal-led Zomato has beforehand backed startups similar to logistics expertise agency Shiprocket, discovery platform for offline retailers Magicpin, and health platform Curefit as a part of its technique to deploy $1 billion in younger firms. In February it dedicated an extra $400 million to construct the short commerce class in India.

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