How a pandemic survival strategy birthed Bengaluru D2C startup Deep Rooted.Co
When the pandemic brought a Bengaluru firm supplying fruits and vegetables to restaurants on the verge of closure, its founders started delivering to apartments instead. That led them to set up the D2C farm-to-fork startup Deep Rooted.Co.
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Until early last year,
Avinash R, and
Santosh Narasipura were managing 100 acres of greenhouses, supplying vegetables to 130 restaurants in Bengaluru, and were happy that their farm-to-fork business was growing, when the pandemic and the ensuing lockdown almost brought it to a standstill.
The founders had been using 15 sub-one tonne trucks to deliver 5,000 tonnes of vegetables every year. So, during the first few months of the pandemic, April-June 2020, the business made losses on at least 300 tonnes of vegetables because buyers hotels and cloud kitchens had shut down.
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