Bringing Five of the World’s Largest Food Ingredient Corporations Together as Investors
SINGAPORE, 11 AUGUST 2022 – Singapore’s ProfilePrint, a pioneering solutions provider to grade food ingredients using A.I. technology, has added U.S.-based Cargill (one of the world’s leading global food suppliers), to its panel of strategic shareholders through its Series A funding round. To date, the other strategic shareholders are Louis Dreyfus Company (Netherland-headquartered world leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods operating in 100 countries), Olam International (Singapore-headquartered major food and agribusiness company operating in 60 countries), Sucafina (Switzerland-headquartered multinational coffee merchant operating in 32 countries) and Sinar Mas (one of Indonesia’s conglomerates that operates in seven business areas including food and agribusiness), as well as institutional venture capital funds. Together they will accelerate the company’s vision of establishing a common digital standard based on its patented food fingerprinting technology. Cargill’s investment signals confidence in the Singapore-based deep-tech start-up, with its solution deployed in over 26 cities globally across five continents (North America, Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia).
ProfilePrint is an A.I.-driven predictive and prescriptive profiler, providing users with accessible, affordable, and portable solutions to ascertain and predict quality and profile of a food ingredient at the point of use, within seconds. Today, an enormous amount of resources are required to physically grade food samples across multiple stages of the global supply chain. ProfilePrint’s solution redefines transaction standards, and offers sellers and buyers an unbiased reference point, expediting existing quality assessment processes – from the farm all the way to end-buyers.
In June 2021, ProfilePrint was selected as the winner of the Cargill Health Through Nutrition Award at Future Foods Asia 2021 (Singapore). ProfilePrint also bagged numerous other awards, including winning the National Innovation Challenge for Supply Chain Resiliency 2020 (Singapore), International Grand Champion of Vietnam Startup Wheel 2021 (Vietnam), and 2nd runner up at the International Suzhou Jinji Lake Startup Competition 2021 (China).
The funds will be used to invest in product development, talent acquisition and team expansion.
ProfilePrint is an AI-driven ingredient quality platform powered by a patented digital food identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) technology. ProfilePrint synthesises complex molecular data of ingredient samples into digital fingerprints, rapidly predicting its identity and quality, empowering agribusinesses to make data-driven decisions to buy, manufacture and sell better. Backed by the world’s largest food ingredient conglomerates and international venture funds, ProfilePrint is a Singapore-based company with a global footprint.