Category: Education & Discovery
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My fellow food tech enthusiasts: I hope your weekend involves lots of culinary adventures, of both the real and digital worlds. If you happen to be in Southern California, I really hope they involve cooking the newly released Impossible beef product, now selling at Gelson stores. If you were lucky enough grab some, let us…
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Fast casual salad chain Sweetgreen, known equally for tech-forward initiatives and its emphasis on fresh greens, wants to change young students’ relationship to their vegetables. The Washington, D.C.-based chain announced this week it has expanded its Reimagining School Cafeterias program, which it does in partnership with AmeriCorps entity FoodCorps. Sweetgreen has pledged $1 million to…
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My crystal ball tells me that come early 2020, we’ll get numerous announcements from startup accelerators and incubators opening the application process for their programs. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to wait another several months if you’re ready to start shopping your startup to a program right now. With that in mind, here’s…
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Ever since companies first started coming out with voice assistants, we’ve speculated over what their role will look like in the kitchen. Guided cooking? Grocery shopping? Or just simply setting a timer when your hands are dirty? That’s one of the questions we’ll dive into with speaker Ben McInnis, Senior Manager of Amazon’s Alexa Connect…
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If you’re shopping at Kroger, you have a plethora of plant-based meat and dairy options to choose from. Today the retailer announced that this fall, consumers will have one more — this one coming from Kroger itself. At the Good Food Conference in San Francisco today Gil Phipps, Kroger’s Vice President for Private Brands, announced…
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Greetings from the South, ground zero for sweet tea, land of unrelenting humidity, future home of a massive new vertical farming operation. This week, an Orlando, FL-based company called Kalera (formerly Eco Convergence Group), announced that it has broken ground on a semi-autonomous vertical farming facility that will produce 5 million heads of lettuce each year,…
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It’s August, so naturally it’s time to start thinking about the SXSW Festival in March of next year. No, really, you actually should; the conference is running its “Panel Picker” right now, so if there is a particular topic you want to see discussed on stage, now is the time to let your voice be…
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Several months after the launch of WeWork Food Labs in NYC, WeWork is launching a second location of its food tech facility and accelerator program, The Spoon has confirmed via an industry source. While WeWork hasn’t gone on record with information about this forthcoming San Francisco location, the company did leave a job posting on…
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The Princeton Vertical Farming Project (PVFP) has shuttered its main farm following the departure of its founder, according to The Daily Princetonian. The vertical farming initiative was founded in 2017 by Paul P.G. Gauthier, then an associate research scholar in plant physiology and environmental plant metabolism at the Princeton. The goal of the project, which…
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August may be vacation time for many. But in the world of food tech accelerators, it’s business as usual, with a fresh offering of programs taking applications throughout the month. Some are courtesy of major corporations, others have sprouted from more local operations. All are in search of startups using technology to change the way…
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Techstars, which runs the Farm to Fork food tech accelerator (among many others), announced a $42 million investment in fresh funding today. The round was led by SVB Financial Group, with participation from existing investors including Foundry Group. According to the press release and an article published on TechCrunch, the new funding will go towards…
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From countertop devices used in the home kitchen to delivery services, the number of avenues in which companies can get booze to customers has expanded in recent years. And since it’s still the time of year when drinking on patios is a popular sport, we decided to focus our latest market map on all the…
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