Category: Education & Discovery
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Cornell University and New York State announced today announced the launch of Grow-NY, a food- and agriculture-focused competition aimed at high-growth startups. Grow-NY, set to take place in the second half of 2019, is meant to enhance existing food innovation in the Grow-NY region, which includes Finger Lakes, Central New York, and the Southern Tier.…
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This past week, The Spoon hosted the first-ever Food Tech Fireside event, a live conversation between our editors, notable food industry figures, and with some participation from the audience itself (you can listen to a podcast version of the conversation here). To kick off the series, Mike Wolf explored the topic of food accelerators with…
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At the beginning of May, we launched our Food Waste Innovation market map identifying companies building products and services that tackle the 1.3 billion-ton food waste problem. It’s no small obstacle. With roughly one-third of the world’s food going to waste each year, it’s little wonder that entrepreneurs, startups, corporations and, heck, even the government…
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Part of our daily routine here at The Spoon includes a lot of chats with food innovators bringing their new tech and ideas to market and in the process changing the way we eat. In fact, we get so much good intel from these conversations we decided it’s time to open the dialogue and invite…
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Major CPGs have been on a mission to keep pace with new food trends by partnering with younger companies via startup accelerators and incubators. Now they’re taking the concept to China, where Shanghai-based VC firm Bits x Bites has teamed with the likes of Coca-Cola, Danone, and General Mills, as well as multinational biotech firms…
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The U.S. isn’t the only mentor around when it comes to startup accelerators that can help young foodtech companies grow, develop products, and head to market. And depending on a business and the products/services it produces, an overseas program can actually make more sense, as is the case with
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Roughly one third of the world’s food goes to waste each year. It rots on at the bottom of grocery store bins, gets thrown out with unused restaurant inventory, or is hiding in some deep, forgotten corner of your pantry (probably growing fangs). The U.S. alone wastes enough food to fill a 90,000-seat stadium — every…
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This morning foodtech accelerator Food-X announced the eight startups chosen to participate in its Cohort 9 class, which is currently underway at the Food-X space in NYC. There was an applicant pool of 500 companies this time around, and we asked Food-X Program Director, Peter Bodenheimer, how they waded through that list to select just…
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Nestlé is the latest mega food company to get in on the food & beverage accelerator movement. Today the Swiss company announced that it was launching an R&D accelerator program in Lausanne, Switzerland. This is the first internal accelerator for Nestlé, who previously partnered with Rabobank and Rocketspace to create the Terra Food + Agtech…
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With delivery, it’s easy to forget there are human beings behind the food you just ordered with the push of a button. DoorDash wants to change that by reminding us of the stories behind your Tuesday night dinner. Today the third-party food delivery service announced Kitchens Without Borders, an initiative that supports restaurants founded by…
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Posting pics of your meals on Instagram is de rigeur for the modern-day eater. However, there is still a huge gulf between what you snap and share versus the gorgeous photos done by the pros. To help minimize that gap between foodie and photog, famed cook and cookbook author Nigella Lawson announced Foodim, a new…
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Imagine being able to vote on your school cafeteria’s lunch options each week. Even in the ’80s, I doubt many of us would have chosen soggy fries and cardboard-like pizza. But we probably wouldn’t have chosen vegetables, either. Fast-casual salad chain Sweetgreen wants to change kids’ attitudes about healthy meals by introducing them in a…
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