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36 Kr Exclusive: CAYE Secures Nearly RMB 400 M in Series B Financing, Largest Single Funding in Commercial Automatic Coffee Machine Track
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (808+ words) Author | Zhong Yixuan CAYE is a company that 36 Kr has been continuously following. The company was established in December 2022. Centering around its self - developed Bionic Barista system, CAYE has redesigned core processes such as coffee grinding, powder weight control, powder…...
Young People Don't Fancy "Moutai", They Need Their Own "Laocunzhang"
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (1682+ words) As night falls, the newly trendy liquor shops this year light up their warm yellow lights. Groups of young people gather around the wooden tables in front of the shops. There are no elaborate etiquettes of clinking glasses, no sense…...
Native Wheatfield Crafts Suburban Cultural and Tourism Scenarios; Wheatfield Coffee Seeks One Million Yuan in Seed - Round Financing
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (446+ words) 36 Kr Native Wheatfield creates cultural and tourism scenarios in the suburbs, and Wheatfield Coffee is seeking one million yuan in seed round financing. The compound consumption project, Wheatfield Coffee, which focuses on the rural cultural and tourism track in the…...
The Birth of the Richest Woman in Her 90s
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (926+ words) The wealth - creating power of AI is astonishing. In the newly released "Hurun Global Rich List", Lucy Guo, with a net worth of 9 billion yuan, made it onto the list and became the world's richest self - made female entrepreneur among…...
From "Ugly Vegetable Blind Boxes" to a Fresh Food Empire: What Enables the "Chinese Hema" in the US to Conquer the Father of Starbucks?
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (951+ words) The time for change is right: "From purchasing inventory to establishing a fulfillment center and then delivering to customers' doorsteps," said Abhi Ramesh, CEO of Misfits Market, "every aspect of the grocery industry can be reimagined." Image source: GUERIN BLASK…...
Fourth Domestic Coffee Brand with Ten Thousand Stores Secures Financing
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (443+ words) At the beginning of 2026, the coffee industry received its first investment. NOWWA COFFEE announced yesterday (the 26th) that it has completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series C financing. This round of financing attracted multiple institutions such as Legend Capital,…...
Struggled to Get a Cup of Coffee After the Coffee Machine Turned Smart
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (1114+ words) So far, no one has truly solved the problem of how to make LLMs know when to be precise and when to be random. It was really a morning that made one feel utterly defeated. A tech journalist from The…...