Category: Education & Discovery
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Yesterday, venture fund SOSV announced a partnership with Mayfield to create the Genesis Consortium, which will invest alongside SOSV into pre-seed-state companies participating in SOSV’s IndieBio accelerator. IndieBio is perhaps best known for helping startups with extremely disruptive concepts and technologies across multiple industries, including food. Memphis Meats, for example, was one of the earliest…
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With so many people taking pictures of their meals, why not put that to good use and make those pics part of a pathway to healthier living? That’s the gist behind Feast, a new iOS app that officially launched today. Feast is basically a photo diary for everything you consume, from full breakfasts to cans…
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Singapore Food Bowl, a food-focused startup program backed by AgFunder’s GROW accelerator, today announced the 12 startups chosen for its first-ever cohort. While those companies vary in terms of what they do and offer, all of them are working towards the same underlying goal: to build a more sustainable food system that’s more decentralized and…
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Aryballe, which makes a “digital nose” capable of identifying smells, announced today that it has raised €7 million ($7.89M USD) in new funding. The round featured new investors Samsung Venture Investment Corp. and Seb Alliance as well as existing INNOVACOM, CEMAG INVEST, Asahi Kasei, and HCVC. This brings the total amount of funding raised by…
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Singapore-based Karana announced today it has closed a $1.7 million seed round to further develop its plant-based meat products, the first of which are derived from jackfruit. The round was led by Big Idea Ventures, Monde Nissin Corp CEO Henry Soesanto, and Germi8, along with angel investors Kevin Poon and Gerald Li. Karana says it will…
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SideChef has gone premium. The recipe app and smart kitchen platform startup announced last week they were launching a new premium subscription tier to go along with the company’s free app. The new subscription offering is $49.99/year or $4.99/month. SideChef Premium includes 750 enhanced recipes that feature instructional guidance from the partner chefs, cooking techniques…
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Food ingredient innovator Motif FoodWorks announced today it has struck partnerships with two universities to further research the properties of plant-based foods and develop technologies to improve elements like texture. For the research, Motif will work with the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana. Today’s announcement comes on the…
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Singapore agtech is about to get an investment shot in arm, one that could give the whole world a clearer vision of alternative farming’s role in our future food system. Enterprise Singapore, the government agency committed to startups, said last week it will invest roughly $40 million USD into agtech and aquaculture companies, according to…
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Two things we love here at The Spoon: space food and indoor farming tech. So I got pretty excited to come across a HoritDaily article today about Jacob Torres, who works at the Space Crop Production Lab at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and is currently researching how to grow chile peppers in space. The idea…
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Agtech startup AppHarvest this week announced a partnership with the Dutch government, the state of Kentucky, and several other organizations including universities to turn Appalachia into an “ag-tech epicenter,” according to the Louisville Courier Journal. The partnership comes just as AppHarvest is building out its massive 2.76-million-square foot indoor farming facility in Morehead, KY that’s…
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“Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous.” So said Max Elder, Research Director at Food Futures Lab for the Institute for the Future. Elder joined The Spoon yesterday for a virtual workshop on how to think like a food futurist during these uncertain times, and he had a wealth of tools…
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Asia-based food tech startups, take note. SPACE-F, an accelerator and incubator program in Thailand, is now taking applications for Batch-II of its program (h/t Green Queen). The program works with Southeast Asian startups working to improve a number of areas across the the food and be industries. Batch-II, which officially kicks off in October 2020,…
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