Category: Industry Perspectives
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When you hear about new trends in the food and CPG space — plant-based, sustainable, snackable, etc. — they’re usually credited to younger generations: specifically millennials and Gen Z. But what exactly are younger eaters looking for, both in and out of the kitchen? And what will they demand next? That’s exactly what Michael Wolf asked…
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With its hot take-y headline, the TechCrunch blog post “Cloud kitchens is an oxymoron,” buzzed around my Twitter timeline yesterday. In the article, author Danny Crichton sets out to burst the bubble, or at least bubble thinking around the growing phenomenon of cloud (or ghost, or virtual) kitchens. We’ll just call them cloud kitchens here…
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Back in 2010, entrepreneur Naveen Jain co-founded Moon Express, a privately held company gunning for the Moon. “When you have literally taken the moon shot, what do you do for an encore?” he asked the audience at the Smart Kitchen Summit 2019. For Jain, the answer was, tackle healthcare. (No big, right?) To do so,…
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As kitchens get smarter, they also tend to get more cluttered and complicated, especially if the various connected devices involved don’t communicate with each other. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some sort of universal standard that allowed all smart appliances to be interoperable? That’s exactly what the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) is trying…
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I always feel a little guilty because I wake up a good hour before my roommates and one of the first things I do is make my morning smoothie. And our blender is loud. Maybe I should think about investing in a Millo. The startup makes a platform with a powerful motor run by magnets, which…
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When you think about things you can make at home — bread, pasta, juice — chocolate is probably not something that jumps to mind. It’s a complicated, time-intensive process that takes skill and special equipment to master. But what if there was a machine that could do it all for you? CocoTerra is a new…
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Periodically the Spoon publishes guest posts from those in the industries we cover. This post is from Zvi Frank, the Co-CEO and founder of Copilot (www.copilot.cx). Frank describes Copilot as “the first automated customer experience management platform for consumer electronics.” Lifetime Value (LTV) matters to every business, but in one-time transactional businesses like the kitchen appliance…
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It used to be, if you wanted a non-alcoholic drink you were basically stuck with water, soda, or maybe a virgin pina colada. Now, spurred by younger generations’ embrace of wellness, ‘mocktails’ are becoming a craft area all their own. Burden of Proof, a finalist of our Future Food competition for the Smart Kitchen Summit…
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You probably have a blender in your house. It’s probably… fine. But what if your blender could not only make you a really good smoothie, but do it silently — and look pretty dang cool in the process? That’s exactly what Millo, a new startup reinventing the blender, is trying to do. They’re one of…
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What if the food you ate could not only help you feel better and lose (or gain) weight, but also cure chronic health conditions, make you more alert, or even clear up your skin? That’s exactly what personalized nutrition company Viome is trying to do. Viome’s CEO Naveen Jain will be onstage at the Smart Kitchen Summit…
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This is a guest post written by Brita Rosenheim, Partner at Better Food Ventures. This Food Tech Industry Landscape and state-of-the-industry analysis are intended to help operators, entrepreneurs and investors in the food system to understand the quickly evolving themes and trends currently impacting the food tech industry. You can meet Brita at Smart Kitchen…
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The temptation of ice cream can be a killer for even the most devout dairy-abstainers and flexitarians. So much so that Perumal Gandhi and Ryan Pandya were motivated to create Perfect Day, a company that makes animal-free dairy products with the exact same proteins as the real thing, thanks to fermentation. Their debut product, a…
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