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People Using The Wonder Food Delivery Service Are Bonkers About It

You’ve probably heard about Wonder by now. The high-profile company founded by Marc Lore has people buzzing with its nearly billion in funding and a model that includes chef-designed meals […]

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Germany-Based Mushlabs Scores An Infrastructure Partnership with Bitburger Brewery Group

Hamburg-based biotech startup Mushlabs may have created the perfect storm in its approach to creating a clean, nutrient-rich plant-based meat alternative. The company can hit the ground running without worrying […]

From Robotics to Alt Protein, Layoffs and Shutdowns Have Begun to Hit Food Tech

What a difference a year can make. Last year, it seemed a day didn’t go by without word of a big new funding round in food tech. Alt proteins, restaurant […]

ReGrained Changes Name to Upcycled Foods as It Diversifies Into Non-Grain Upcycled Ingredients

ReGrained is now Upcycled Foods Inc. The company, which announced the new name as well as a variety of new partners and product announcements at the IFT First trade show […]

Podcast: The Hard Business of Building an At-Scale Restaurant Tech Company

Anyone who’s read Jordan Thaeler’s publication Reforming Retail knows he likes to tell it like it is when it comes to restaurant tech. No matter whether it’s the business model […]

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Are The Layoffs at Motif a Canary in the Coalmine For the Plant-Based Meat Industry?

According to an article out today from Food Navigator USA, plant-based meat ingredient startup Motif Foodworks has laid off an undisclosed number of employees. The layoffs, which are the first […]

Tropic Biosciences Raises $35M For Gene-Editing & RNAi Platform Aimed at Developing Tropical Crops

Agriculture scientists have continuously worked to evolve coffee crops to battle an ever-changing climate for much of the past century. Some of the most famous examples of these efforts are […]

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Podcast: Talking Food Waste Reduction (and How We Can All Do More) With Andrew Shakman

Andrew Shakman had a tough job. In May, the CEO of Leanpath was asked to give a closing message at the annual ReFED Symposium that would inspire attendees and catalyze […]

The Spoon Weekly: Wonder’s Big Bet, Parc’s Cold Chain Spinout, a Hard Look at Model for 15 Minute Grocery

Will Wonder Reinvent the Food Delivery Biz, or Become Another Cautionary Tale? Only Time Will Tell Imagine you wanted to build a complete-from-scratch meal delivery company. Not just the delivery […]

Gavin Newsom and California Legislators Allocate $5 Million for Cultivated Meat R&D

When California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California Budget Act of 2022 into law this week, the state of California directed billions of dollars of tax funds to be allocated […]

Coming Out of Stealth, Paleo Unveils Six Animal-Free, GMO-Free Varieties of Heme

In 2024, imagine walking into Burger King and ordering a mammoth burger. No, not one that is bigger than your head; this Whopper will taste like the extinct proboscideans that […]

Will Wonder Reinvent the Food Delivery Biz, or Become Another Cautionary Tale? Only Time Will Tell

Imagine you wanted to build a complete-from-scratch meal delivery company. Not just the delivery part like Doordash. I’m talking about building a company that is essentially an entire restaurant and […]