Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
A couple of years ago, Andrew Simmons had big plans for his restaurant subscription business. And why not? After experimenting with a wide range of technologies in a San Diego-area […]
Admit it: you’ve probably played around with making recipes using AI. At this point, most of us have. If you’re like me, the early results were… rough. But over time, […]
Back in 2017, I wrote a story exploring the idea of personalized food profiles. The piece explored whether, someday, we might walk into restaurants, shop at the grocery store, or […]
AI-powered restaurant forecasting startup ClearCOGS has raised $3.8 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by Closed Loop Partners, with participation from Myriad Venture Partners and Hearst’s Level Up Ventures. […]
Vow, the Australian-based startup making foie gras and parfait from the cultivated cells of Japanese quail, announced a couple of big milestones this week, including what it claims to be […]
During normal times, running a hardware business is tough. Throw in a tariff-driven trade war, and it becomes a full-blown crisis. Just ask Robin Liss. When the CEO of kitchen […]
Today, food recycler startup Mill disclosed (via Axios, scoop by my ex-Gigaom colleague Katie Fehrenbacher) that it has reached $20 million in trailing 12-month revenue. It also announced it is […]
Last week, weather forecasters warned of something rarely seen in the Seattle area—a tornado—which could have meant widespread power outages and property damage across the Pacific Northwest. The first place […]
Chef Robotics has raised $43.1 million in a Series A round to accelerate deployment of its AI-powered food assembly robots, the company announced today. The funding brings the San Francisco-based […]
What if the food system could be a climate solution instead of a climate problem? That’s the question Eva Goulbourne explores with Renée Vassilos, Director of Agriculture Innovation at The […]
It was a year ago that Keurig announced it had begun working with CoffeeB to create its next-generation compostable coffee pod. The new pod, a puck-shaped consumable called the K-Round, […]
Crisp, a New York-based retail data company, has acquired Seattle-based startup Shelf Engine. Founded in 2016 by Stefan Kalb and Bede Jordan, Shelf Engine specializes in using machine learning to […]
