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As meat prices soar to record highs, The Better Meat Co. (BMC) announced this week that it has closed an oversubscribed $31 million Series A round to scale its patented mycoprotein fermentation platform to commercial levels. The West Sacramento–based company plans to bring its Rhiza mycoprotein to market at prices lower than U.S. commodity ground…
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Below are the full session from SKS 2025. The State of Consumer Kitchen Innovation Speakers: Scott Heimendinger (Seattle Ultrasonics), Kai Schaeffner (Former CEO of Thermomix North America), Michael Wolf (The Spoon) What is the state of innovation in the consumer kitchen? How will new technologies change things? Watch on Vimeo The Future of Food Innovation…
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If you ask Steve Statler, our current supply chains are essentially the equivalent of an old-school combustion engine (at best), and at worst something akin to a horse-drawn carriage. “We’re running our supply chains with 19th-century visibility,” said Statler, the CEO and cofounder of AmbAI and host of the Mr Beacon Podcast. “The future is…
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On July 28, some owners of the Anova Precision Oven woke up to bricked appliances. According to posts on Reddit and a Facebook group for the company’s high-tech combi-oven, customers reported “black screens of death” and non-responsive ovens after an overnight firmware update. After a flood of inbound requests for support, the company acknowledged the…
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For those of you who are skeptical about whether drone delivery will ever become a common way to deliver your pizza or groceries, I’m there with you. Several key factors need to be in place to ensure drones can deliver items quickly, at low cost, and, perhaps most of all, safely. One of the key…
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With this week’s news that Little Caesars pizza is partnering with Serve to deliver pizza, it’s clear that robotic delivery, whether on sidewalks, underground, or in the air, is fast becoming more mainstream. Despite many of these startups working on technology for close to a decade, the robot food delivery process still has a cumbersome…
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Last week, I sat down with Mark Cuban at the Smart Kitchen Summit to talk about how he sees AI changing innovation and medicine, his motivation for starting Cost Plus Drugs, and why he decided to step away from Shark Tank after this upcoming season.’ Below are five takeaways from my interview with Cuban. Cuban’s…
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As far as my family’s small Pomeranian, Zeus, is concerned, I’m a very distant second banana when it comes to the humans in his life. Sure, he’ll let me feed him and pay the cheese tax, but the reality is he’s only got eyes (and a nose) for one person in his life, which happens…
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For the past five or so years, the emails have landed in my inbox on a steady basis, nearly every month. They’ve included updates on a small startup building a countertop cooking robot named Posha. The emails, almost always written by the company’s CEO and co-founder, Raghav Gupta, detail progress, both big and small, ranging…
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Zach Rash wanted to be a professional surfer. So much so, that in high school, there was more surfing than academics. That all changed when Rash reached UCLA and met Brad Squicciarini. It wasn’t long before the two spent every waking hour together in a small room building robots. “We spent like our entire life…
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Smart Kitchen Summit 2025 officially kicks off today! Over the next two weeks, we’re bringing together some of the brightest minds at the intersection of food, cooking, and technology for a virtual global summit exploring what’s next for the kitchen. This year’s event explores how AI, robotics, new appliances, and sustainability are transforming the way…
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When kitchen tech inventor Scott Heimendinger started prototyping his latest hardware product, he knew that much of it would need to be built overseas. Still, he was curious whether he could rely on local Seattle-based shops to produce some of the parts. “I contacted local shops here in Seattle. There are a couple of machine…
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