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Nidou Bet 449 Dinars That Restaurants Are Tired of Ugly High Chairs
The Tunisian furniture brand turned an ignored corner of the dining room into a durability pitch: solid beech, an eight-centimeter fold, and a price designed to make plastic look expensive over time.
Sekilo
Sekilo is a Jakarta-based B2B company building an AI-powered halal protein supply chain for Indonesia's foodservice industry, starting with poultry. Formerly the quick-commerce grocery startup Dropezy (YC W22), it pivoted in 2023 to process and distribute chicken to caterers, restaurant chains, industrial buyers, and processed-meat factories. Sekilo unifies procurement, processing, cold chain, and delivery into a single asset-light operating layer, handling custom orders from 25kg for small caterers up to 10-20 tons for large buyers.
Glife Technologies Pte Ltd
Glife Technologies is a Singapore-based B2B food and agri-tech company that digitizes the food supply chain across Southeast Asia. It connects farmers and suppliers directly with restaurants, hotels, caterers and retailers through an app-based sourcing marketplace, its own cold-chain distribution network, and an in-house ERP platform called GlifeWare. By cutting out layers of middlemen and aggregating demand, Glife aims to lower costs for buyers, give farmers reliable access to end-buyers, and improve food safety and food security in the region.
Watermelon Ecosystem
Watermelon Ecosystem is a Dubai-based B2B platform for the food and beverage industry that connects restaurants, hotels, cafes and caterers with local and global suppliers. Founded in 2020 by former restaurateur Omar AlShamsi, it bundles a supplier marketplace, cloud POS, analytics and embedded financing into one system so F&B operators can consolidate ordering, cut purchasing time and paperwork, manage inventory and access working capital. The company raised a $4 million Series A in 2024 at a $29 million post-money valuation.