Global Food Ventures
Abu Dhabi, AE · 46 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
Global Food Ventures operates a platform that helps restaurants, hotels, and dark kitchens generate additional revenue by monetizing underused kitchens, creating and launching delivery-optimized food brands, and handling delivery logistics. It serves food operators across the GCC, Europe, the UK, and the USA in the foodtech sector.
Also known as GFV
Founders & leadership
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Global Food Ventures (GFV) is an Abu Dhabi-headquartered food-technology platform that connects underutilized kitchen capacity with delivery-optimized food brands. Its stated model lets restaurants, dark kitchens, hotels and cafes host virtual or store-in-store brands without new leases, buildouts, additional hires or capital expenditure, while brand owners plug into an existing partner-kitchen network to enter new markets.
The platform is organized around four offerings: virtual brands (delivery-first concepts activated inside a partner's existing kitchen), store-in-store concepts, brand expansion through the partner kitchen network, and performance tools providing data-driven insights, delivery optimization and pricing strategy across aggregators. The brand portfolio spans influencer- and creator-led concepts, brands owned and developed in-house by GFV, licensed partner brands, and retail/CPG products converted into delivery concepts. Hoxton Ventures describes the company as a capex-free cloud kitchen platform linking underutilized restaurants with online food delivery consumers.
GFV describes a four-stage customer journey — brand concept development (strategy, menu, packaging and food-safety compliance, platform integration), go-live across delivery platforms and the kitchen network, ongoing operations with smart tools and logistics support, and expansion into new locations and markets. Supporting back-end systems include live dashboards tracking KPIs and order volume, automated onboarding and order routing workflows, a matching engine pairing brands with idle kitchens, and demand forecasting.
Founding story
Founded in March 2024 by George (Georges) Karam, who had a background in food tech and experience raising capital for startups, and built the platform in response to barriers he encountered scaling food brands. Hoxton Ventures records the founding year as 2023.
Business model
GFV acts as an intermediary between kitchen operators and food brands: kitchen partners contribute idle capacity and cooking labor while GFV supplies the brand, menu, playbook, delivery-platform listings, operations and logistics support. The company states there are no fees, no real estate requirements and no capital investment for partners, and markets brand onboarding to food entrepreneurs as free; the specific commercial terms and revenue split are not detailed publicly.
Revenue is derived from operating and scaling food brands across a network of partner kitchens — including in-house owned brands, licensed brand partnerships, influencer-led concepts and CPG activations — rather than from fees charged to kitchen partners, whom the company tells it can add 20-40% incremental revenue. Exact pricing and commercial terms are not disclosed.
Traction
The company cites a partner kitchen network, brands launched across 8 markets, and a 20-40% revenue uplift for kitchen partners; the underlying counts are rendered as placeholder figures on the site. Institutional backing comes from Hoxton Ventures, which invested in 2024 through its Hoxton II fund.
Latest developments
The company operates offices in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the UK and the US, states it is live in 4+ countries with brands launched in 8 markets, and appears in Hoxton Ventures' active portfolio following a 2024 investment.
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Market position
Positions itself as an operating system for food expansion and aims to build the region's largest network of delivery-optimized food brands; its venture backer characterizes it as the world's first capex-free cloud kitchen platform.
Emphasizes no capital expenditure, no new real estate and no additional staffing for partners; an end-to-end offering spanning brand creation through delivery logistics on one platform; rapid time to market; operator-led rather than consultant-led execution; and pairing food concepts with creator/celebrity cultural reach.
Technology
A platform layer combining real-time dashboards for KPIs, order volume and cross-market performance; data-driven optimization of menus, pricing and customer targeting; automated workflows for onboarding and order routing; a matching engine that pairs brands with underutilized kitchens; demand forecasting for launch planning; and integrations with major food delivery aggregators.
Go-to-market
Direct partnership recruitment via the company website (partner sign-up and demo booking) targeting kitchens, brands, creators and technology partners, combined with aggregator marketing on delivery platforms and influencer/celebrity-backed brand launches. The company emphasizes launch speed, stating brands can go live across platforms within days or weeks.
Restaurants with spare kitchen capacity, dark/cloud kitchens seeking to fill downtime, hotels and cafes looking to extend F&B offerings, and food brands, entrepreneurs, creators/influencers and CPG companies seeking regional or global delivery expansion.
Geography
Headquartered in Abu Dhabi at Al Khatem Tower, ADGM, Al Maryah Island, with additional listed offices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Woking, United Kingdom; and Delray Beach, Florida, United States. The company states it is live in 4+ countries, with brands launched across 8 markets and a roadmap spanning the GCC, Europe, the UK and the USA (one page also cites Africa). Hoxton Ventures lists the headquarters as Dubai, UAE.
History
Founded by George Karam, with Hoxton Ventures recording a founding year of 2023 and the company's own about page stating March 2024. Hoxton Ventures invested in 2024 via its Hoxton II fund, with partner Hussein Kanji associated with the investment. The company has since established registered addresses in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsHoxton Ventures lists Global Food Ventures as a portfolio company, with the investment made in 2024 from its Hoxton II fund; Hussein Kanji is the associated Hoxton partner.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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primary sources listed
- Global Food Venturesglobalfoodventures.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Global Food Ventures do?
- Capex-free food-tech platform that turns underused kitchens into revenue by launching and scaling delivery-first food brands.
- Who founded Global Food Ventures?
- Global Food Ventures was founded by George Karam.
- Who are Global Food Ventures's investors?
- Global Food Ventures's investors include Hoxton Ventures.
- Where is Global Food Ventures headquartered?
- Global Food Ventures is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, AE.