Winnow, a London company that sells AI systems for measuring food waste in commercial kitchens, has acquired Lumitics, a Singapore startup that built similar technology for hotels and restaurants across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. The deal was announced in July 2026. The companies did not disclose the price or other financial terms.
Lumitics' employees are joining Winnow, according to Pulse 2.0. Lumitics customers will keep their current service and data and will be moved in phases to Winnow's own platform and hardware over the coming months, Winnow said.
Winnow said the acquisition strengthens its position in Asia-Pacific, which it described as one of its key growth regions, and brings it closer to its stated goal of preventing $1 billion in food waste.
What Lumitics built
Lumitics was founded in Singapore in 2017. Rayner Loi, a co-founder, led it as chief executive, and Winnow's chief executive also credited Adriel Tan as part of the team behind it. It applied artificial intelligence, computer vision and data analytics to food waste in commercial kitchens, identifying what is thrown away so operators can change purchasing, preparation and menus. Winnow's announcement described it as one of the first Asian companies to commercialise this kind of technology.
The company had deployments in more than 20 countries across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. Its customers included the hotel groups Accor, Hyatt, Marriott and Four Seasons, according to the announcement and TTG Asia.
"When we started Lumitics in Singapore in 2017, our belief was simple: kitchens could not reduce what they could not see," Loi said. He said that working across the region had given the company detailed knowledge of how food waste differs between cuisines, kitchen formats and types of hospitality business.
“Asia-Pacific is one of the most critical frontiers in the fight against food waste, and Lumitics has built a strong regional platform through its customer relationships, technical know-how and deployment experience.”
Why Winnow is buying
Winnow was founded in 2013 and is led by co-founder and chief executive Marc Zornes. Its systems are used in more than 3,500 kitchens in almost 100 countries, with customers including IKEA, Hilton and Accor, and it has offices in London, Chicago, Dubai, Singapore and Cluj-Napoca. Winnow says kitchens using its technology together save more than $100 million worth of food waste each year.
The two companies sold to the same kind of customer, and both counted Accor and Marriott among their clients. Buying Lumitics gives Winnow a larger local team, more regional expertise and an established base of hospitality customers in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
"Asia-Pacific is one of the most critical frontiers in the fight against food waste, and Lumitics has built a strong regional platform through its customer relationships, technical know-how and deployment experience," Zornes said, according to TTG Asia. Winnow said a larger combined customer network would also give kitchens more opportunities to compare results and share practices.
What happens to customers
Winnow said Lumitics customers would see no interruption in service and would keep access to their existing data. During the transition they will get access to Winnow VisionAI, including expanded plate waste tracking and a feature called Throw & Go, which identifies and weighs discarded food automatically, without staff having to scan or enter anything.
Existing Winnow customers in the region will gain from larger local teams and more regional expertise, the company said. Zornes described the approach for Lumitics customers as continuity first, with service, data and relationships kept intact through the move to VisionAI.
The backers
Lumitics was backed by Nicholas and Jonathon Cocks of Velocity Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in hospitality technology, and by the impact angel investors Franck Courmont and Steve Melhuish, the founder of the property portal PropertyGuru, according to Winnow's announcement.
The amount Lumitics raised over its life was not disclosed in the announcement, and neither was the number of employees moving to Winnow.
