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Happy Labor Day weekend, to those who get Monday off! Hopefully you’re having a summery last hurrah, or else doing nothing but basking inside in the air conditioning. Either way, it’s well deserved. Kick off your weekend with some food tech news. This week we’ve got stories about Chinese corporate catering investments, DoorDash moving into…
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Advanced Farm Technologies (AFT), an agtech robotics startup, has raised a $7.5 million Series A round of funding led by Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (“YMVSV”), the strategic business development and investment arm of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd., with participation from Kubota Corporation, Catapult Ventures, and Impact Venture Capital. This brings the total…
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This week the Spoon gang got together to talk about some of the most interesting food tech stories of the week. On this week’s Food Tech Show we talk about: Starship’s new funding round and expansion to more college campuses The new cow/plant-based milk blend product from Dairy Farmers of America The curious crowdfunding campaign…
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It took just about a month, but DoorDash finally revealed more details about the ways in which the company is changing how it pays its delivery people, also known as “Dashers.” In a corporate blog post today, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu wrote that the new policy was created with input from customers, Dashers and members…
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It was the instructions to take the food out of the plastic tray and place it on an actual plate that hooked my wife. I mean, she enjoyed the meal as well, but it was this little touch that made Freshly stand out compared with the other meal services we’ve been trying throughout the summer.…
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It may not be the most wonderful time of the year, but it is time for Amazon’s annual Prime Day (which is actually two days because Jeff Bezos does not believe in your paltry 24 hours). For the uninitiated, Amazon is going to put a lot of stuff on sale today and tomorrow, all in…
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This is the web version of our weekly Future Food newsletter. Be sure to subscribe here so you don’t miss a beat! Welcome back. Last week was a short newsletter because I had to zip off and grill up Beyond burgers for a crowd. But now I’m back with some pretty sweet news. Perfect Day, the Silicon Valley…
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As we’ve noted many times, backing a crowdfunded hardware project can be a bit of a crapshoot. But one company that has consistently come through is PicoBrew with its various beer brewing appliances (the pulled Pico U notwithstanding). This week PicoBrew announced that its crowdfunded PicoBrew Z line of professional grade brewing appliances is available for…
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When it comes to dining out, your average person wants at least some consistency in the way their food is made. But at what point does consistency and predictability cross the line and become . . . boring?
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This is the web version of our weekly Spoon newsletter. You should sign up for it. I really did not want to write about alternate proteins in this newsletter this week. Really. We have a whole other weekly newsletter called Future Food devoted to topic (you should totally subscribe!) and I didn’t want to step…
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Well, that was quick. Less than a month after testing out the Impossible Whopper in St. Louis, Burger King said today that it will expand the availability of Impossible’s plant-based burger to all of its 7,300 locations by the end of this year. The BK Lounge becomes the latest in an already impressive list of…
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Barre, Vermont-based vertical farming company Ceres Greens just scooped up the winning prize from foodtech accelerator Accel-VT’s recently wrapped program. Part foodtech accelerator, part startup competition, Accel-VT — also based in Vermont — each year picks eight startups from around the U.S. and Canada to participate in its three-month program. Like many accelerators, it all…
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