RIND Raises $6.1M for Upcycled Fruit Snacks
RIND Snacks, a startup that produces upcycled dried fruit snacks, this week announced that it has raised $6.1 million in a Series A round of funding (news from Forbes). This […]
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Horizon Europe Allocates €32M for Sustainable Protein Research
Horizon Europe, a European Union funding program for research and innovation, announced today that it has €32 million in funding available for research into more sustainable protein options such as […]
South Korea: Lounge Lab Opens Brown Bana Robot Ice Cream Shop
South Korean robotics company Lounge Lab announced today that it has opened Brown Bana, a robot-powered ice cream store in Seoul. Technically, Brown Bana is more of a co-botic setup, […]
Cashierless Checkout Startup Trigo Gets $10M Strategic Investment from REWE
Israel-based cashierless checkout startup Trigo has received a $10 million strategic investment from German supermarket chain Rewe. TechCrunch was first to report the news and also confirmed that Trigo has […]
Motif FoodWorks Raises $226M to Improve the Taste of Plant-Based Proteins
Plant-based food tech company Motif FoodWorks has raised a whopping $226 million in Series B funding, according to an announcement sent to The Spoon. The round was co-led by Ontario […]
Animal-Free Dairy Startup Change Foods Closes $2.1M Seed Round
Change Foods, a startup best known at this point for making animal-free cheese via a fermentation process, has closed an oversubscribed Seed round of $2.1 million. Investors include Plug and […]
Green Rebel Foods Introduces Asia’s First Whole Cut Plant-Based Steak
Green Rebel Foods, an Indonesian-based alternative meat start-up, unveiled today that it has developed a plant-based whole cut steak, as well as an alternative chicken steak (h/t Green Queen). According […]
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Zippin and AiFi Announce New Cashierless Checkout Store Locations
It’s not even noon pacific time as I write this and it’s already been a day packed full of cashierless checkout news. Things kicked off when Amazon announced a new […]
Underground Cellar Raises $12.5M for its Gamified “Upgrade” Wine Service
Underground Cellar, which aims to entice wine buyers with the promise of random upgraded bottles of wine, announced today that it has raised a $12.5 million Series A round of […]
Deliveroo Is Running a Reusable Container Program in Paris
Deliveroo France and circular-packaging company barePack have started offering customers of the delivery service the option to get their food delivered in reusable containers, according to a report from Green […]
Amazon Opening Full-Sized Cashierless Checkout Grocery Store
Amazon announced today that its new Fresh grocery store opening this week in Bellevue, Washington will feature Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology. This is the first implementation of Amazon’s cashierless […]
U.S. Restaurant Foot Traffic Is Up Nearly 50 Percent From January
Foot traffic and in-store visits to food and beverage establishments in the U.S. has increased 48 percent since the start of 2021, according to new research from marketing tech company […]