Deals this week: Seafarms Group, OPER, Kitchnza Foods And Hospitality

Australia-based aquaculture prawn producer Seafarms Group will raise A$7.1m ($5.40m) through a private placement transaction that is expected to be closed by 29 August.

The company will issue 78.48 million shares in the private placement at a price of A$0.09 ($0.06) each.

The firm also plans to issue 43.89 million shares in a second tranche of private placement to raise A$3.9m ($2.96m). The shares will be priced at A$0.09 ($0.06) each.

Online mobile food ordering, payment and rewards platform OPER will raise $1.5m in funding from Serra Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Illinois, US.

The funds will be raised through convertible debt offering.

Indian food start-up Kitchnza Foods And Hospitality (Zzungry) has raised an investment through a round of seed funding.

Satish Vasudeva and Madhusudhan Jujare participated in the funding round.

Australian food maker Beston Global Food Company has formed a joint venture with Singapore’s MindChamps Holdings to offer fresh and nutritious food to preschool children.

The Singapore-based joint venture will be known as Beston MindChamps Kids Nutrition. The food and beverage products of Beston Global Food will be distributed by Mindchamps Holdings as part of the transaction.

MindChamps Holdings operates education training centres for children.

Japanese seafood and food products producer Nippon Suisan Kaisha plans to raise CNY16.8bn ($167.88m) through public and private offering of shares.

The company will offer 5.07 million new shares in private placement in addition to 30.15 million new shares that will be issued through a public offering.

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Image: Seafarms Group is a leading Australian aquaculture prawn producer. Photo: courtesy of Mate Marschalko via Flickr.