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  • Apr 7, 2018

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    Ag Tech, Around The Web, Future of Drink, Future of Grocery, Non-Tech, Startups, Uncategorized

    Food Tech News Roundup: GM Hops, Food Delivery Mergers & Meat MRI’s

    Happy weekend. This was a big week for food tech news, with funding updates from Instacart and Impossible Foods, and big partnership announcements from Innit/Chef’d and Kenwood/Drop. But there were also a bunch of smaller stories that caught our eye, even if we didn’t have time to write a post about them. So we rounded them…

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  • Apr 6, 2018

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    Education & Discovery, Robotics, AI & Data, Smart Kitchen Summit, Startups, Uncategorized

    Dishq CEO Kishan Vasani Predicts You Want Snails for Dinner

    At one point or another, we have all suffered from menu confusion: the feeling when a restaurant offers too many good-looking dishes, overwhelming us with choice. You don’t want to choose the wrong thing and be stuck with it, but you need to make a decision. Bangalore-based startup dishq is using AI and consumer data to…

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  • Apr 4, 2018

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    Ag Tech, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Uncategorized, Waste Reduction

    Crispr Gene Editing Software May Dramatically Change Our Food — And Soon

    Last week, the USDA ruled that organisms gene-edited by Crispr technology will not be subject to the same regulations as genetically modified organisms (GMO). US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said that the USDA currently does not, and has no plans to, regulate plants or animals “that could otherwise have been developed through traditional breeding techniques.” In other words,…

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  • Mar 24, 2018

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    Around The Web, Connected Kitchen, Delivery & Commerce, Future of Drink, Future of Grocery, Smart Home, Uncategorized

    Food Tech News Roundup: Tooth Calorie Counters, Snoop Dogg, and Amazon’s Next Move

    The time has come for our weekly roundup of food tech news stories; ones that caught our eye, but weren’t quite big enough to justify a whole post. This week’s news update focused on some of our favorite foods (and drinks): pizza, beer, and coffee. Also, did we mention that Snoop Dogg is involved? Or…

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  • Feb 16, 2018

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    Business of Food, Delivery & Commerce, Education & Discovery, Future of Drink, Uncategorized

    One-Stop Shop Wine App Vivino Snags $20M in Funding

    It’s a good day for wine lovers (and wannabe lovers) everywhere. Vivino, the world’s most downloaded wine app and largest online wine marketplace, just raised $20 million in series C funding. The latest funding round was led by SCP Neptune International, the investment arm of former Moet Hennessy CEO and Chairman of VinExpo Christophe Navarre. This comes about two…

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  • Feb 14, 2018

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    3D Food Printing, Connected Kitchen, Smart Home, Startups, Uncategorized

    Dessert Meets Tech and It’s Love at First Bite

    It’s February 14, which means sappy love songs, heart-shaped chocolate boxes, and . . . 3D printing? As Michael Wolf predicted in his prescient post “10 Trends Shaping the Future of Cooking in 2018,” dessert-tech is a market that’s growing fast. From intelligent ovens that speed up the cookie-making process to a whole mess of…

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  • Feb 9, 2018

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    Smart Home, Smart Kitchen Summit, Uncategorized, Vertical Farming, Video, Voices

    Video: James Ehrlich Talks Food, Epiphanies, & the (Eco)Village of the Future

    Take a second, right now, and picture the community of the future. Are there green roofs, lazily-turning windmills, and streetlights powered by solar energy? Maybe even a lawn-mowing robot or two? James Ehrlich, CEO of ReGen Villages, has a pretty innovative vision for how neighborhoods of the future should look and function. After a career as…

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  • Jan 10, 2018

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    Connected Kitchen, Startups, Uncategorized

    Aryballe’s Digital Nose On Display at CES

    Aryballe, maker of digital odor detectors, is showing off an early production model of its portable NeOse digital smell sensor at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. The device is intended for the pro market and is priced as such; when it ships in about two months, it will cost about $10 thousand. Company spokesperson Fanny Turlure…

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  • Dec 29, 2017

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    Ag Tech, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Startups, Uncategorized
    Babylon Micro-Farms

    This Stylish Table Is the “Next Generation” of Automated Urban Farming

    “Farm to Table” Is “Farm on a Table” thanks to this startup’s stylish new creation.

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  • Dec 22, 2017

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    Ag Tech, Foodtech, Startups, Uncategorized
    Minneapolis-St.Paul

    Techstars Unveils Startup Accelerator for Foodtech Innovators

    Startups across the food supply chain are invited to apply for the three-month program in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

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  • Dec 21, 2017

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    Foodtech, Restaurant Tech, Uncategorized

    Quick-Service Restaurants Are Quickly Turning to Facial Recognition

    Increased speed and more accurate orders are making this tech appealing for both diners and restaurant owners.

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  • Oct 27, 2017

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    3D Food Printing, Uncategorized
    3D Burger

    Israeli Researchers Cook Up 3D-Printed Food You Can Personalize

    A team in Jerusalem is using nanocellulose fibers to find new ways 3D-printed food can be nutritious and practical.

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