We’re just five days away from SKS 2021, which means it’s time to preview another Startup Showcase finalist. Today’s featured startup is Blix, a company which makes a no-prep, no-cleanup smart food maker. The Blix food maker uses a patent-protected smart lid which incorporates an integrated blade and RFID tag to enable the user to…
If there’s one thing the world can use more of, it’s chocolate tech, and we have it for you with our latest Smart Kitchen Summit Startup Showcase finalist interview: ChocoMake. In this interview, Carlos Rodela talks with ChocoMake founder and CEO Liora Omer. ChocoMake is a countertop home chocolate making appliance that enables the amateur…
It’s time to meet Castiron, one of the Smart Kitchen Summit Startup Showcase finalists. So who is Castiron? Castiron is building a turnkey commerce platform for independent food entrepreneurs. The company’s solution gives food makers everything they need to run an online business, including website creation, product management, invoicing, inventory management, and marketing, as well…
We’re heads down in preparation for Smart Kitchen Summit 2021, but we couldn’t be more excited to showcase some of food tech’s more innovative startups as part of the 2021 Startup Showcase. To whet your appetite, The Spoon team is going to be rolling out almost-daily video interviews with the leaders of these startups over…
Every year, we put out a call for innovators who are using tech to disrupt and ultimately improve the way we eat, prep and interact with food. We receive Startup Showcase applications from all corners of the global food system and get to learn about the ideas that will spark change and help shape the…
If you are innovating and working to create the future of food and the kitchen, we want to see your product demo. Apply for a chance to pitch at the 2021 Smart Kitchen Summit by September 30, 2021.
Included below are videos from the following sessions: Same-Day Delivery’s Role in the Modern Kitchen, Grocery Store and Beyond – Wilson Rothman and Kelly Caruso The Tech-Powered Grocery Store – Chris Albrecht and Will Glaser Building Resilient Restaurants With Tech in the COVID Era – Chris Carr, Ian Christopher, Christine Schindler, Jennifer Marston Designing Consumer-Centered…
Included below are videos from the following sessions: Using Innovation To Reduce Food Waste – James Rogers (Apeel), Chiara Cecchini (Future Food Institute), Alexandria Coari (ReFED), Moderator: Jenn Marston (The Spoon) Doing The Impossible: In Conversation with Pat Brown Let’s Print Some Meat – a demo of Novameat’s 3D meat printer From The Reviewer: What…
At last week’s Smart Kitchen Summit, ten finalists made their case on the virtual stage why they should be chosen as winner of the Startup Showcase competition. The Startup Showcase, which started back in 2015 and is one of the longest running dedicated food tech startup pitch contests in the world, had its most diverse…
The sixth annual Smart Kitchen Summit concluded last week. And while the pandemic pushed the show online, it was still as exciting and informative as ever. There was far too much great stuff to fit into one recap post, so instead, the The Spoon team is each offering up their own highlights and trends spotted…
One of the highlights from the Smart Kitchen Summit week was we got to take a tour of the Modernist Cuisine kitchen with Head Chef Francisco Migoya. While there were lots of amazing things to see in the high tech kitchen behind Modernist Bread and the forthcoming Modernist Pizza, including the spice rack that would…
Grabango CEO Will Glaser said this week that because his company’s technology doesn’t use facial recognition, it can avoid some of the same types of racial biases found in other computer vision and machine learning algorithms. Glaser’s comments came during my fireside chat with him at our Smart Kitchen Summit this week. Grabango makes cashierless…