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At both IFA last fall and this year’s CES in Las Vegas, there was one big trend everyone seemed to be talking about: the rise of humanoid robots from science fiction fantasy to a powerful, multifunctional tool for work and home. Whether it was folding clothes, pouring drinks, or cooking a meal, the past year…
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Food companies trying to understand how consumers feel about a new product have relied on surveys, focus groups, and sensory panels for decades. But according to Mario Ubiali, founder and CEO of neuroscience company THIMUS, these approaches often elicit misleading (and sometimes completely wrong) responses from consumers. “One of the most interesting discrepancies we’re seeing…
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No matter who you talk to in the world of food or ag innovation, if you ask whether they know Rob Trice, chances are the answer will be yes. That’s only partly due to Rob’s seeming omnipresence at nearly every food or ag innovation event across the globe over the past decade. I know he…
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If you’ve ever stopped for food in a one-exit town along the freeway, there’s a good chance your choices primarily consisted of chips, beef jerky, and days-old sandwiches. But what if convenience stores offered tasty, fresh food cooked in-house instead of salty snacks or days-old sandwiches made off-site? That’s the vision of Danish food entrepreneur…
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For most people, the smart home is about convenience: lights that turn on automatically, thermostats that learn schedules, and voice assistants that respond to simple commands. But over the last couple of years, a few companies have been experimenting with something different: homes that respond not just to routines and schedules, but to signals from…
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Jay Lee and Springhouse want to help us figure out what’s for dinner. Not only that, but they want to do so by keeping an up-to-date inventory of what’s in our fridge, so we can plan around the food we already have and know what we may need to run to the store for, or…
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Almost a decade ago, back in the early days of the Smart Kitchen Summit (SKS) — the event I created about the future of cooking and food — Ashley Colpaart was nice enough to travel out to Seattle and talk about how shared kitchens, a still niche corner of the food world, fit into the…
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When The Spoon first wrote about Nuritas in 2021, the Dublin-born startup had just raised $45 million to scale its peptide discovery platform. At the time, the company was positioned as early entrant of computational biology startups targeting the ingredients supply chain. Now, almost five years later, and with an additional $42 million Series C…
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For years, Tom Raviv thought he was being careful about what he put in his body. Working long hours in mergers and acquisitions, he’d read the ingredients on snack or protein bar wrappers as he grabbed them between meetings. One product, however, escaped his scrutiny entirely. “I’d grab a pack of gum at the checkout,…
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When Impossible Foods announced that CEO Peter McGuiness would step down after nearly four years, the company framed the move as a transition “from a position of strength.” For Rachel Konrad, the former head of communications at Impossible Foods, it felt more like the inevitable endpoint of a long strategic detour. “I would never have…
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For years, Alex Shirazi has helped tell the story of the cultivated meat industry through conferences, podcasts, and public-facing education. But as these once science-fiction-y products slowly moved from labs toward early commercialization, he began to feel that something was missing. “While there is plenty of discussion about cultivated meat, very little attention is paid…
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For more than a decade, startups have built online marketplaces in hopes of turning home kitchens into legitimate food businesses. Unfortunately, for most of that time, while demand existed, the regulations permitting these businesses did not. The first serious attempt came more than a decade ago with Josephine, a startup that gave home cooks a…
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