Cloud kitchen brand Hygiene BigBite raises $15-M from Falcon Edge

Bengaluru-based Hygiene BigBite, a cloud kitchen backed by serial entrepreneur K Ganesh, has raised USD 15 million from Falcon Edge. Hygiene BigBite is part of Ganesh's entrepreneurship platform GrowthStory. Founded in 2016 as business-to-business (B2B) delivery startup BikeNinja, the Hygiene BigBite pivoted to a multi-brand cloud kitchen model in 2017. It currently operates 10 brands — including Gunpowder and Biryani Trip — across 50 kitchens. The company had scaled from five kitchens before the second wave of the Covid pandemic to 50 kitchens in Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai. It intends to expand to 100 by next year.