Eight Hawaiʻi companies participated in the 27th International Food Ingredients & Additives Exhibition, held from May 17-19, 2023, at Tokyo’s Big Sight venue.
IIT Bombay graduates
Kiran Patil and Pritesh Mittal founded Nearfox, a discovery platform that helps citizens make discoveries across categories like food, shopping, beauty, fashion, fitness, entertainment, and local travel, in 2015. However, the startup shut shop in 2016.
Pritesh says, while the startup was shutdown in just a year, they realised the guidance and values of companies like Coverfox and Toppr through SEO consulting. “Hence, we decided to start an agency specialising in SEO services,” he says.
In 2016, the duo launched
Growisto. The Mumbai-based startup is a
retail ecommerce marketing and technology company, which focuses on leveraging technology and data to drive online retail growth.