Category: Deep Dives
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Apeel just raised $250 million from investors including celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Katy Perry. I spoke with Rogers a few days before they announced the funding to learn more about how he, a materials scientist, got the idea to switch from creating solar panels to developing produce technology. We also got into bigger discussions…
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Up through February, the company had been trucking along, seeing robust growth for a product that it had largely sold through corporate food service channels. Then came COVID-19 and everything changed. I talked with Kreisberg about how a young consumer food brand focused on office workers has dealt with the pandemic. He was very clear…
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And I have to say, that’s how I felt the other day hearing Johnny Grey describe how he thinks about design. We got together over Zoom and he walked me through his latest design concepts, called “The Evening Kitchen,” and I was pulled in as Johnny described a kitchen design process that worked to summon…
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Since Nourished lies at the intersection of two burgeoning food tech trends — personalization and 3D printing — I reached out to Snover to learn more about Nourished. In our interview she clued me in on how they settled on 3D printing (fun fact: she actually invented the first ever 3D food printer!), why she’s…
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This includes Japan. To learn more about what’s going on in that country, I caught up with Taichi Isaku, the CEO of CoCooking. I’d met Isaku in 2018 when I was in Tokyo for the second Smart Kitchen Summit Japan. Speaking to me in flawless English, Isaku told me about CoCooking’s online marketplace called TABETE which…
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