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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

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Motif FoodWorks Raises $226M to Improve the Taste of Plant-Based Proteins

June 16, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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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 […]

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Animal-Free Dairy Startup Change Foods Closes $2.1M Seed Round

June 16, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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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

June 15, 2021 Ashlen Wilder

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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 […]

Zippin and AiFi Announce New Cashierless Checkout Store Locations

June 15, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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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

June 15, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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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 […]

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Deliveroo Is Running a Reusable Container Program in Paris

June 15, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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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

June 15, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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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 […]

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U.S. Restaurant Foot Traffic Is Up Nearly 50 Percent From January

June 15, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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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 […]

Cooler Screens Expanding its Dynamic Screens to Stores Nationally

June 14, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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Cooler Screens, the company that turns the doors of grocery coolers and freezers into full-motion display screens, is expanding outside of Chicago to more stores across the U.S. AdWeek first […]

Dishpatch Raises £10M for ‘Finish at Home’ Meal Delivery Service

June 14, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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Dishpatch, a finish-at-home meal kit service based in the U.K., has raised £10 million (~$14 million USD) in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and LocalGlobe, who co-led the round. Other […]

California Giant Berry Farms and OnePointOne Team Up to Grow Berries Indoors

June 14, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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More than once in the last few months, indoor farmers have named berries the next important crop for controlled environment agriculture (CEA). California Giant Berry Farms added further weight to […]

Online Grocer Boxed Bulks up by Going Public via SPAC

June 14, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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Boxed, a grocery e-commerce site that specializes in selling bulk items, is going public via special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Announced today, the deal is being done via merger with […]

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