Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
Making protein with electricity and carbon dioxide is neat and all, but what about fat? A group of chemists from the Swedish research organization RISE recently developed a method to […]
Byte Technology added dynamic pricing to its smart fridges this week, giving its clients the ability change prices of stocked items on the fly. Through a combination of RFID and […]
At the height of the everybody-panic-grocery-shelves-are-bare phase of this pandemic, Bay Area-based startup Cheetah pivoted from selling food to restaurants to selling that same food directly to consumers. Today, Cheetah […]
Agtech startup AppHarvest this week announced a partnership with the Dutch government, the state of Kentucky, and several other organizations including universities to turn Appalachia into an “ag-tech epicenter,” according […]
COVID-19 has claimed another food-related business, this time plant-based seafood startup Ocean Hugger Foods. The company, which had raised $500,000 in late 2019, had been gaining traction through much of […]
With restaurant dining rooms now open under new restrictions and precautions, we’re seeing quite a few devices emerge that aim to better monitor the health of workers and customers. The […]
Turtle Tree Labs, a Singapore-based startup that creates milk from mammalian cells, announced yesterday that it has raised a $3.2 million seed round of funding. Green Monday Ventures, KBW Ventures, […]
Target announced today that it is expanding its Order Pickup and Drive Up services for fresh and frozen groceries nationwide. These services will be available in 400 stores by the […]
Restaurant tech company Sevenrooms has raised $50 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Providence Strategic Growth and brings Sevenrooms’ total funding to $71.5 million. According to […]
But here’s the thing: most ideas about the future sound a little crazy the first time you hear them. I had known about Friedberg for some time, in part because […]
Payment processing company Square announced today the launch of its new On-Demand Delivery for its customers using the Square Online Store. The service allows restaurants and other sellers to take […]
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared Amazon’s 16 percent investment in Deliveroo on the basis that the deal would not likely “damage competition in either restaurant […]
