Fashol, an agri-tech startup, recently announced that it raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to build the technology to optimize supply chain and connect farmers to the market.
It secured the funding from SOSV, South Asia Tech Partners, and angel investors such as Foodpanda Co-Founder and CEO Ambareen Reza and Foodpanda Co-Founder and Managing Director Zubair Siddiky, said a press release.
It also has the plan to build "Fashol Farmers Centres" and "Micro Distribution Centres" as well.
Fashol is committed to using recent investments to leverage data to minimize the supply and demand gap and bringing automation for seamless transactions from farmers to retailers, it said.
The startup was founded in 2020 by Sakib Hossain and Mamunur Rashid, who bring a combined 18 years of experience in multinational corporations and startups.
