Would You Prefer to Stand in a Virtual Line When Going to the Grocery Store?
One of the ways grocery stores have dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic is to limit the number of shoppers that can physically go into the store at a given time. […]
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Elevate Farms Gets a $10M Investment to Build Vertical Farms in Remote, Food-Insecure Corners of Canada
Canada-based Elevate Farms has entered into an agreement with North Star Agriculture Corp. for an initial buildout commitment of $10 million (USD) to bring Elevate’s vertical farming technology to isolated […]
Barcelona’s Cubiq Foods Raises €5M to Produce Better-for-You Cultured Fat
Cubiq Foods, a Barcelona-based startup making cultured fats for food products, announced today that it had raised €5 million ($5.4 million) from Blue Horizon Ventures and Moira Capital Partners (h/t […]
Spoon Plus Deep Dive : A Conversation With Taichi Isaku on How Japan’s Food Industry is Dealing With COVID-19
This includes Japan. To learn more about what’s going on in that country, I caught up with Taichi Isaku, the CEO of CoCooking. I’d met Isaku in 2018 when I was […]
Zomato Cuts 13 Percent of Its Workforce
Zomato, one of India’s largest third-party food delivery services, is cutting 13 percent of its workforce and requiring the rest of its employees to take a pay cut, according to […]
Review: BLOOM is a Speedier Pourover Coffee Maker for Homes and Cafés
When I worked as a barista, my absolute least favorite drink to make was a pour over. Essentially a single-serving cup of coffee made individually, the process was fussy and […]
Johnny Grey on the Post-COVID Kitchen: No Cabinets, Bigger Pantries, More Pleasure
With COVID keeping many of us at home, kitchens are taking on a bigger role than ever before. They’re not just the place we cook meals; they’re also our offices, […]
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ConverseNow Raises $3.25M for Its AI-Driven Restaurant Ordering Platform
Restaurant tech startup ConverseNow announced this week it had raised a $3.25 million seed funding round for its platform that uses AI to automate the process of ordering food. The […]
Taika’s Canned Adaptogen Coffee Ticks the Boxes for Wellness-Loving Millennials
During quarantine I’ve been drinking more caffeine than ever, which means that by 10 a.m., I’m usually about to rocket out of my chair. Maybe that wouldn’t be the case […]
Dairy Farmers of America Unveils the 9 Companies Selected for Its Latest Accelerator Cohort
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) announced this week the companies chosen to participate in the 2020 cohort of its food-focused startup accelerator. Nine companies were chosen for this cohort, according […]
Shopic Raises $7.6 Million Series A for its Cashierless Checkout Tech
Shopic, and Israel-based startup that creates cashierless checkout solutions for medium to large grocery stores, announced today that it has raised a $7.6 million Series A round of funding. The […]
API Tech Bringing Smart Pizza Vending Machines From Europe to the U.S.
We were watching the vending machine space closely before the pandemic, because of their increasing ability to create high-quality food in very small footprints. But ever since COVID-19 crashed all […]