Best Online Grocery Companies in Shanghai, China
The 47 best Online Grocery companies in Shanghai, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Pinduoduo.
Ranked: Best Online Grocery companies in Shanghai
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pinduoduo Innovative e-commerce platform connecting consumers with a wide range of products | $3.2B | 67 mo ago | Public | Lei Chen CEO | — | SentryNode.jsJava+7 | — | — |
| 2 | Dingdong Maicai Online retailer of grocery products | $1.3B | 63 mo ago | Public | Liang Changlin Founder & CEO | 3,363 | TurbopackNode.jsReact+8 | — | — |
| 3 | Yiguo Online retailer offering grocery supplies | $300M | 108 mo ago | Series D | — | 310 | — | 5 patents Agricultural mechanized trench‑digging/fertilizing equipment and marine wastewater treatment systems | — |
| 4 | Fruitday Online B2C platform for imported fruits | $205M | 120 mo ago | Series D | — | 900 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Anlaiye Mobile app for students on campus to order groceries from local businesses | $124M | 49 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 54 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Oh Plus Network Technology Checkout-free convenience store and snack bar | $71M | 98 mo ago | Deadpooled | Michael Lv Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Zhai Online grocery store focused at college students | $45M | 131 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 6 | — | 8 patents Smart electronic lock cores powered and reset by key energy; plug‑and‑play intelligent keys | — |
| 8 | Yesmywine Online wine retailer (mostly imported) | $43M | 183 mo ago | Acquired | — | 17 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Freshfresh Online platform to order farm fresh groceries | $40M | 95 mo ago | Series A | Adrian Fang Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Magic Box Citybox Smart vending machines for offline retailers | $40M | 99 mo ago | Series B | Shen Bowei Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | 59Store Online grocery store providing night delivery to college students | $36M | 131 mo ago | Deadpooled | Zhou Kunpeng CEO | 1,000 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Tony's Farm Organic farm providing fresh produce, delivery, and agritourism experiences | $30M | 146 mo ago | Series C | — | 23 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Loukou On-demand grocery delivery | $24M | 137 mo ago | Deadpooled | Zhang Jianhong Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Gfresh Online global marketplace platform for users to sell seafood in China | $20M | 117 mo ago | Series A | — | 53 | — | — | — |
| 15 | Wochacha QR-code based price comparison app | $12M | 94 mo ago | Series A | LIxin Zhao Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Huoquanquan Online platform to compare prices of wholesale grocery products | $10M | 109 mo ago | Seed | Zhang Ze Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | BottlesXO Wine delivery service | $6M | 105 mo ago | Seed | Thilo Fuchs Co-Founder & CIO | 13 | — | — | — |
| 18 | Haishen Technology Developer of artificial intelligence systems for automated security baggage screening | $6M | 85 mo ago | Series A | Jianbin Dai Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | 8 patents Patents concentrated in its core technology | — |
| 19 | Fields China Online grocery store for food products | $5M | 154 mo ago | Acquired | Bruno Mercier CEO & Chairman | 16 | — | — | — |
| 20 | 500jia Asset heavy platform for farm fresh groceries | $5M | 130 mo ago | Deadpooled | Wang Gaoxiang CEO | 31 | — | — | — |
| 21 | Saohuo Mobile-first platform for buying imported groceries | $4M | 109 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 49 | — | — | — |
| 22 | Incake Online private label premium confectionery brand | $3M | 134 mo ago | Deadpooled | lin xu CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Zaijiadd Logistics, marketing and ordering platform for hyper-local groceries | $2M | 122 mo ago | Deadpooled | Zhou Yufeng CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Xinwei Cook Provider of ready to cook meals | $2M | 146 mo ago | Deadpooled | Steve Ge Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | Mktou Online platform to order food items for university students | $2M | 135 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 200 | — | — | — |
| 26 | 51Ludou Provider of semi-autonomous smart vending machines | $1M | 98 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 30 | — | — | — |
| 27 | Egg Xiao Er Developer of a platform for trading eggs | $1M | 81 mo ago | Deadpooled | Li Yulan CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 28 | Coffee Exchange Online B2B coffee trading platform | $510K | 83 mo ago | Seed | Dragos Olaru Co-Founder | 12 | — | — | — |
| 29 | Tappal Internet based confectionery shop | $500K | 145 mo ago | Deadpooled | Yang Jianling Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Online Grocery companies in Shanghai
#1
Public · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2015$3.2Braised▾
Innovative e-commerce platform connecting consumers with a wide range of products. It is a dynamic online marketplace facilitating transactions between buyers and sellers. The platform emphasizes value and accessibility, offering a diverse selection of goods through its website and mobile application. It focuses on social commerce, encouraging users to share and discover products through their networks. The company provides services for merchants, including onboarding, support, and tools to manage their online stores. It also offers customer service and dispute resolution to ensure a positive shopping experience. The platform is committed to consumer protection and intellectual property rights. It operates a B2C model, leveraging technology to create a seamless and engaging shopping experience.
- Dec 2020Post IPO$500M
- Mar 2020Post IPO$1.1B
- Sep 2019Post IPO$875M
- Apr 2018Series D$3B
#2
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2014 · 54 employees$124.3Mraised▾
Operator of an integrated on-demand delivery platform designed specifically for college students in China. The company partners with retailers, restaurants, media companies and other social media platforms popular in universities to create a local life service platform, delivering a variety of products including food, hygiene products and other daily necessities to college students.
#3
Public · Pudong, Shanghai · founded 2017 · 3363 employees$1.3Braised▾
100.me is an online retailer of grocery products. It offers vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, seafood, kitchen supplies, and others. Claims to deliver orders within 29 minutes after placing the orders. The mobile application is available for Android users.
- May 2021Series D$330M
- Apr 2021Series D$700M
- May 2020Series C$300M
- Jul 2019Series B—
#4
Series D · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2009 · 900 employees$205Mraised▾
Online B2C platform for imported fruits. It main products are mid and high end fruits, including imported fresh fruits and domestic fresh fruits. It has built a direct platform between suppliers and consumers with self-built cold storage and cold-chain logistics. It has multiple ordering channels, such as website ordering, telephone ordering, TV ordering, direct supply to company, and physical store service.
- Aug 2016Series D$15M
- Mar 2016Series D$100M
- May 2015Series C$70M
- Mar 2014Series B$10M
#5
Series D · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2005 · 310 employees$300Mraised▾
Online retailer offering grocery supplies. The product catalog includes fruits, vegetables, snacks, wines, chocolates, biscuits, meats, milk, bread, eggs, yogurts, frozen foods, and more.
- Aug 2017Series D$300M
- Nov 2016Series D—
- Mar 2016Series C—
- Mar 2014Series B—
#6
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017$71.4Mraised▾
Checkout-free convenience store and snack bar. It offers drinks, biscuits, and instant noodles through kiosks installed at office buildings. The company has an app-based platform that customers can use in order to pay by scanning. Once the payment is done, the order gets processed and they can collect the meals from the chosen outlets. It allows customers to pay via mobile payment options.
- Jun 2018Series A—
- Nov 2017Series A$57.4M
- Sep 2017Series A$15M
#7
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2013$40Mraised▾
Freshfresh is an online platform to order fresh farm to home groceries. The firm purchases directly from farmers and eliminates the middle men thereby giving better prices to consumers. Handles end to end supply chain from procuring to delivery. Raised $20M from Tripod capital.
- Sep 2018Series A$20M
- Mar 2016Series A$20M
#8
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2016$40Mraised▾
Magic Box Citybox provides smart vending machines for offline retailers. The machines can be programmed by store owners to carry out loyalty programs including discounts and other incentives, display targeted user ads and carry out upselling activities. Each machine is equipped with mobile payments, task management and control facilities.
- May 2018Series B$25M
- Sep 2017Series A$15M
#9
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2010$11.7Mraised▾
Wochacha is a QR-code based price comparison app. It stores & monitors the product description & price information of groceries and local commodities available in online & offline supermarkets. It also offers statistical early warning function for the management department to improve the timeliness, coverage and monitoring ability of food sampling. Some of its partners include GS1 China, Newland, Highsun, Honeywell, and more.
- Oct 2018Series A$1.7M
- Jan 2011Series A$10M
#10
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2014 · 6 employees$45Mraised▾
Zhai.me operates an online-to-offline (O2O) mobile platform that allows students to order snacks and other consumer goods online and get them delivered on demand. Claims to cover 800 colleges and universities in nearly 70 Chinese cities. It partners with consumer brands and wholesalers to sell stocks online. It also hires college students as sales representatives, who in turn use their dorms for warehousing. It's also collaborating with Fenqile, one of the major players in the Chinese consumer finance sector to explore lending opportunities
- Sep 2015Series B$35M
- May 2015Series A$10M
- Mar 2015Seed—
#11
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2011 · 1000 employees$36.1Mraised▾
59store.com sells and delivers groceries such as drinks, snacks and other college supplies across 1,700 colleges. It claims to receive more than 200,000 daily orders. Claims to provide delivery within 1 hour. Takes orders between nine o'clock and eleven o'clock at night, the peak demand time for students. Hires college students as sales representatives. Received Series B funding in Aug 2015, which it plans to use for developing its supply chain, increasing recruitment and foraying into consumer finance platform through its partnership with 9Fbank. com
- Aug 2015Series B$31.3M
- Mar 2015Series A$4.8M
#12
Seed · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2014 · 13 employees$6.4Mraised▾
BottlesXO is a wine delivery startup that caters to mid-range wine market and features high resolution images of each bottle along with icons of suggested fruits, vegetables, cheeses, and meats to pair it with. Each wine is also accompanied by a lengthy description, a history of that type of wine, and photos and descriptions of the vineyard where the grapes were grown. Has a fleet of 25 drivers who after accepting an order drive to the closest wine storage location (it has set up locations throughout Shanghai), grab the order, and deliver it. As of Sep 2015, the app is English-only and the company has expanded to another city, Suzhou
- Nov 2017Seed$3.4M
- 2015Angel$1.5M
- 2015Seed$100K
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