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This Culinary Tech Inventor Thought He Could Build Some Parts For His Latest Gadget in the US. Then He Called Around.
July 14, 2025 Michael Wolf

July 9, 2025

Thermomix Has Long Been a Leader in Cooking Automation, But Now They’re Going Full Robot

July 3, 2025

Is IFT’s Launch of an AI Tool For Food Scientists an Indicator of Where Trade Associations Are Going in Age of AI?

July 1, 2025

From Red Bull to Zevia, Amy Taylor Shares Lessons Learned From a Career Built Around Buzzy Beverages

February 1, 2025

A Conversation With Bear Robotics’ John Ha on LG Deal and The Future of The Company

The Food Tech Show: Talking Upcycling with ReGrained’s Daniel Kurzrock

July 7, 2021 Michael Wolf

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As a young homebrewer, Daniel Kurzrock wanted to turn his passion for beer brewing into a business. He had started baking bread for his friends using the spent grains from […]

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Traeger Grills Acquires Connected Thermometer Company MEATER

July 6, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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Traeger Grills, best known for its wood-pellet grills, announced today that it has acquired wireless meat thermometer company MEATER. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and according to the […]

Yandex Delivery Robots Coming to College Campuses Courtesy of Grubhub

July 6, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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Food delivery service Grubhub announced today that it will be bringing delivery robots to college campuses this fall thanks to a new multi-year partnership with Russian tech giant Yandex. Yandex’s […]

Meati Raises $50M Series B for Mycelium-Based Meat Alternatives

July 6, 2021 Ashlen Wilder

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Colorado-based Meati produces whole cuts of meat alternative analogs from mycelium, and today the start-up announced that it has raised $50 million in its series B round (news from Forbes). […]

C3 Raises $80M to Expand Its Virtual Food Hall Concept

July 6, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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Virtual restaurant company C3 (Creating Culinary Communities) has raised an $80 million Series B funding round co-led by Brookfield Asset Management and REEF Technology. Egon Durban and Greg Mondre Managing […]

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MeaTech Says It Will Develop Cultured Pork Products

July 6, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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Israel-based alt-protein company MeaTech 3D has begun research and development activities around cultivated pork, the company announced today.  Initial activities will focus largely on developing porcine cell lines, which the […]

DaVinci Kitchen Equity Crowdfunds €500,000 for Robotic Pasta Kiosk

July 6, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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DaVinci Kitchen, a German startup making an autonomous robotic pasta kiosk, has raised more than €500,000 (~$591,000 USD) through equity crowdfunding. The company’s campaign ran from March to the end […]

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How AppHarvest Is Investing in the First Generation of High-Tech Farmers

July 6, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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Agriculture may have been slower to digitize than other parts of the food sector, but these days a lot of folks would agree artificial intelligence, automation, and other technologies have […]

AeroFarms Talks R&D in the UAE for Vertical Farming

July 5, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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One place that gets a lot of attention these days when it comes to food tech initiatives is the United Arab Emirates. Like Singapore, the country is aggressively pursuing food […]

Voice bots and Back Office Tasks: A Mid-year Look at Restaurant Tech

July 4, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. As we’re fond of saying lately, last year’s […]

Food Tech News: Next Meat’s Alternative Egg, Wagyu Beef Art, and $20K Plant Grants

July 3, 2021 Ashlen Wilder

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Before you fire up the grill and bask under the glow of fireworks this weekend, we invite you to catch up on some food tech news. This week we have […]

Fraîche’s Smart Fridges Aim to Help NYC Offices Freshen Up Lunch Options

July 2, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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One of the big questions companies face as more of the population gets vaccinated is if and how they will re-open their physical offices. As Bloomberg wrote last month, some […]

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