Category: Podcasts
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It’s another weekly food tech new wrap-up. The stories we discuss this week include: The food brand metaverse trademark landgrab A new NFT restaurant in San Francisco copies the Flyfish playbook The questionable business model for 15-minute grocery startups Roku invests in food content as it spins up shoppable TV capabilities on its platform The…
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Can the design of your kitchen change how and what you eat? Electrolux thinks so. In this week’s episode of the Spoon podcast’s food tech news wrapup, we discuss Electrolux’s new kitchen concept called GRO. Other stories discussed on the show include: Taco Bell’s restaurant of the future has an elevator for food The Shrooly…
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It’s been a while, but we’re cranking up the podcast machine to bring you a weekly food tech news wrap-up. In this week’s show, cohost Ashley Daigneault and I talk about: Circle K’s Big Bet on Cashierless Checkout Tesla’s Drive-In Restaurant Ambitions Taking Restaurants Into the Metaverse The Politicization of Alt-Meat You can listen to…
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NourishedRX provides meals, groceries, and meal kits to individuals, tailored for their individual needs and preferences. The company, which recently raised $6 million in seed funding, has developed an AI platform that matches members with personalized meal and grocery offerings. It works with healthcare providers to incorporate food as part of an individual’s long-term health…
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Imagine you’re a culinary student with dreams of owning your own restaurant. In days past, that journey towards restauranteur would take 10 to 20 years as you cut your teeth, gained experience, and saved enough money. But imagine if you could build a restaurant today or in the near future leveraging automation and software? There…
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While the fast growth of the ghost kitchen industry is exciting, it has some downsides. The industry’s rapid expansion has often meant low-quality food, a lack of transparency, and, even health code violations. Kristen Barnett wants to change all that with her newest venture, Hungry House. Barnett, who was formerly with Zuul, wants to be…
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Last week, Kingdom Supercultures, a company that assembles new novel combinations of naturally-occurring microbes into a new class of ingredients called supercultures, announced a $25 million funding round. The new funding round comes after a $3.5 million round the company raised in 2020. Unlike many computational biology startups that have emerged in recent years, Kingdom…
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Over the past few years, a number of startups have popped up to develop new and more sustainable alternatives to animal-derived collagen. The reasons are obvious: Collagen is used everywhere, from cosmetics to food to health and wellness applications, and because animal-derived collagen is a by-product of the animal farming industry, it has all the…
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In the mid-eighties, Adam Lloyd Cohen was in Paris working on a documentary about ancient robots as a project during his senior year in college. After steeping himself in the history of automation during the day and dining on French cuisine at night, he began to think about how we might use robots to make…
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Scott Heimendinger was ready to talk about his plan. I’d just spent a half hour talking to the longtime culinary innovator who’d spent much of the past decade bringing some of the first consumer sous vide and steam oven products to market, and after telling me about his journey through starting a company, working for…
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This week I caught up with Innit CEO Kevin Brown to talk about his deal with Google Cloud. Like a lot of Innit’s deals as of late, the partnership is focused on the grocery space. Late last year, Innit inked a deal with Carrefour to power a personalized nutritional score for 40 thousand products sold…
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Something was bothering Yaakov Nahmias. The longtime bioengineer had been sitting alongside the Charles River near MIT drinking coffee when he got a call from an investor in Israel who wanted to know what he thought about Mark Post’s famous quarter-million euro hamburger. “I told him, it’s probably the silliest idea I’ve ever heard,” said…
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