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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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Thermomix Has Long Been a Leader in Cooking Automation, But Now They’re Going Full Robot

July 3, 2025

Is IFT’s Launch of an AI Tool For Food Scientists an Indicator of Where Trade Associations Are Going in Age of AI?

July 1, 2025

From Red Bull to Zevia, Amy Taylor Shares Lessons Learned From a Career Built Around Buzzy Beverages

February 1, 2025

A Conversation With Bear Robotics’ John Ha on LG Deal and The Future of The Company

The Effort to Onboard Restaurants to Web3 Continues, But It’s Going to Take Some Time

August 22, 2022 Michael Wolf

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Over the past year, we’ve seen a rush of enthusiastic entrepreneurs and restaurant-adjacent operators announce initiatives to help onboard the world of dining into the world of web3. How’s it […]

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Picnic & Minnow Partner to Offer Automated Solutions For Food Service

August 19, 2022 Michael Wolf

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Have you heard about Seattle’s latest supergroup? No, I’m not talking Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, but a food automation startup collab of Picnic and Minnow. Picnic, a company that makes […]

ADM Partners With New Culture as Part of Growing Buildout of Alt-Protein Production Infrastructure

August 17, 2022 Michael Wolf

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ADM, one of the world’s largest food processing companies, has inked a deal with New Culture, a startup developing animal-free cheese utilizing precision fermentation, to offer joint product development and […]

Podcast: Navigating The World of Patents As a Food Tech Startup

August 16, 2022 Michael Wolf

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Like many fast-growing industries, the world of food tech relies heavily on intellectual property. No matter if your startup is building alternative proteins, cooking technology, automation, or some other food […]

Food Tech Funding Drops 21.5% in Q2, But Alt-Protein Proves Resilient With Only 9% Decline

August 15, 2022 Michael Wolf

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According to a new report from Pitchbook, total food tech venture funding declined by over one-fifth in total deal value in the second quarter of 2022, dropping from $6.9 billion […]

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The Spoon Breaks Ground on New HQ in the Metaverse in Partnership With OneRare

August 11, 2022 Michael Wolf

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Here at The Spoon, we are excited to announce we are breaking ground on a new company headquarters. In the metaverse, that is. That’s right, we’re building a new (virtual) […]

The Weekly Spoon: A Farmers Markets in the Metaverse & The Coming Home Robot Invasion

August 10, 2022 Michael Wolf

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This is the Spoon Food Tech newsletter. To get it delivered to your inbox, sign up here. Come With Me as I Walk Around a CPG Farmers Market in the […]

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Robot Butlers & Roombas: Elon and Amazon Are Getting Serious About Building Home Robots

August 10, 2022 Michael Wolf

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Last week, Amazon announced they were acquiring iRobot. The acquisition of the maker of the popular Roomba robotic vacuums comes less than a year after Amazon unveiled its own home […]

Come With Me as I Walk Around a CPG Farmers Market in the Metaverse

August 9, 2022 Michael Wolf

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Last night I walked around a farmers market. I spent about an hour walking from stand to stand, having conversations, and learning about new CPG products. Someone even offered me […]

Celcy Opens Beta Testing Program For Its Combo Freezer & Oven Countertop Appliance

August 8, 2022 Michael Wolf

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While new countertop cooking hardware concepts are few and far between nowadays, every now and then one emerges out of left field that does something new and different. And the […]

From Grad School Project to $115 Million Series B: Afresh’s Matt Schwartz on Building an Operating System for Fresh Food

August 5, 2022 Michael Wolf

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While in graduate school Matt Schwartz had an epiphany. At the time, he was learning about the food system as part of Stanford University’s Earth Program and also participating in […]

Some Cities Are Pushing Back on Sidewalk Robots. Here Are Some Possible Ideas For Peaceful Coexistence

August 3, 2022 Michael Wolf

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While sidewalk delivery robots promise to help reduce carbon emissions and car traffic on cluttered city streets, not everyone is excited about them, including one city traffic administrator in the […]

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