The Corvinus-founded startup is now expanding internationally as well
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In the middle of the pandemic, in the summer of 2020, four students — three of whom were studying at Corvinus at the time — launched the Munch food-saving service. Their business model is built on connecting supply and demand through a mobile app: that is, linking restaurants, bakeries and grocery stores with potential buyers to save products left over at the end of the day. Customers essentially purchase a “mystery box,” since it’s impossible to know in advance what will remain at the end of the day. In return, they can buy these items at a significant discount.
The four founders of Munch (Kirill Perepelica, Bence Zwecker, Albert Wettstein and Botond Zsoldos) kept building the company with steady commitment throughout the Covid period. In just five years, it has become one of the key platforms for sustainable consumption among young people. Munch is now available in more than 200 Hungarian cities, and they have also launched their Munch Market service, which enables delivery-based food saving for near-expiry, damaged-packaging or seasonal products supplied by manufacturers and wholesalers.
In 2022 they entered the Czech market, then the Romanian market in 2024, and they are now present in Slovakia as well. They currently have 6,000 partners and 3.5 million users in the region, and they employ nearly one hundred people. Their growth is dynamic: while their revenues reached 307 million forints in 2023, one year later the two companies operating the service — Munch Hungary Ltd. and Munch Europe Services Ltd. — jointly achieved almost one billion forints. According to their plans, Southeast Europe will be the next direction for their international expansion.
Recent news also revealed that an investment fund supported by Thomas Peterffy — the Hungarian-born founder and CEO of Interactive Brokers, known as the richest Hungarian — has also invested in Munch.
Source: Telex.hu / G7