The food distribution industry is not as consolidated as many others. There are 25,000 food distributors that operate warehouses and deliver food every day to restaurants, grocery stores and convenience stores, and more than half of the industry is powered by local wholesalers, Pepper Co-Founder...
eCommerce platform Pepper has raised $16 million in a Series A round, which will boost ordering for distributors that work with over 25,000 restaurants and grocery stores, the company announced Tuesday (Nov. 30). The round will come with more enhancements to the food distribution platform....
Los Angeles-based Pepper has raised $5.6 million in seed funding from Upfront Ventures, Lerer Hippeau and Manta Ray Ventures, as reported on Tuesday (Dec. 17). The funds will be used to help grow Pepper’s mission to assist direct-to-consumer (DTC) startups and digitally native businesses. Pepper...
Imagine you were traveling on business and you just arrived into town and had an emergency. Your luggage was sent to the wrong city or you were late for a critical meeting and you needed directions to the convention center. The check-in counter has a...
July 30, 2018
Imagine you were traveling on business and you just arrived into town and had an emergency. Your luggage was sent to the wrong city or you were late for a critical meeting and you needed directions to the convention center. The check-in counter has a dozen guests waiting and the concierge is busy. Well, you […]
November 30, 2021
eCommerce platform Pepper has raised $16 million in a Series A round, which will boost ordering for distributors that work with over 25,000 restaurants and grocery stores, the company announced Tuesday (Nov. 30). The round will come with more enhancements to the food distribution platform. Bowie Cheung, co-founder and CEO, says the idea is to […]
December 17, 2019
Los Angeles-based Pepper has raised $5.6 million in seed funding from Upfront Ventures, Lerer Hippeau and Manta Ray Ventures, as reported on Tuesday (Dec. 17). The funds will be used...
June 27, 2018
Pepper, a robot developed by SoftBank and robotics firm Aldebaran, is entering the retail banking market with the robot’s debut at HSBC’s main bank branch in New York City. According...
June 28, 2017
Bank Leumi has launched Pepper, a digital banking venture that will initially offer current individual accounts and later move into securities and mortgages, as well as joint banking options. According to...
