The Week in Food Tech Funding: Apeel’s Quarter Bil, Bug Farm Beta Hatch Snatches $10M
The waning days of August usually mean a slowdown in news, but not so in the red hot food tech space. This week’s food tech funding news includes (yet another) […]
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Food Tech News: Scented Water, Kabocha Squash Milk, and Robot Delivery at Ohio State
Welcome to the weekend, and the Food Tech News round-up! Air Up uses scent to trick people into drinking more water UK-based Air Up has developed a bottle that flavors […]
Forthcoming Tesla Humanoid Robot Will Get Your Groceries, But Should it?
Tesla is working on a bipedal humanoid robot that will get your groceries and take over other “dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks.” Company CEO Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s robotic ambitions yesterday […]
Want a Whole Cut Fungi-Based Steak? Head to Sacramento This Weekend
Curious what a steak made from fungi tastes like? You’re in luck if you are in Sacramento, California this weekend because that’s where the Better Meat Co will debut their […]
Melt&Marble Raises €750K Seed Round for its Fermentation-Based Fats
Melt&Marble, formerly known as Biopetrolia, announced today that it has raised a €750,000 (~$876,000 USD) seed round to further develop its fermentation-based fats for plant-based foods. Nordic FoodTech VC led […]
You Can Now Buy Brave Robot’s Ice Cream with Crypto
Brave Robot is entering into the brave new world of cryptocurrencies. The company announced today that consumers can now by its ice cream made from fermented flora with Bitcoin, Bitcoin […]
Singapore: Crown Digital Installing Robot Baristas at 30 MRT Train Stations
Singapore-based Crown Digital announced yesterday that it will be installing its robotic baristas at 30 Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations in that country by the end of 2022. Dubbed “Ella,” […]
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Slice Launches Tiered Packaging for Its Pizza-Centric Tech Platform
Slice, a company fast becoming a go-to piece of restaurant tech for indie pizzerias, announced a new tiered packaging feature for its software offering. With it, pizzerias can choose which […]
Creator Re-Opens With a New Burger Making-Robot Customers Can Control
Creator, the San Francisco restaurant made famous by its burger-making robot, was among the thousands of restaurants shut down by the pandemic (even though it engineered an awesome germ-free airlock […]
San Francisco Restaurant to Serve UPSIDE Foods’ Cultivated Chicken
Berkeley, California-based cultivated meat company UPSIDE Foods, announced today that it has partnered with Dominique Crenn, the co-owner and chef of the three Michelin-starred Atelier Crenn restaurant in San Francisco. […]
SJW Robotics Aims to Franchise Its Automated Asian Meal Kiosk
One of the emerging trends we’re seeing in food robotics is the fully automated restaurant-in-a-box-style kiosk. These are big, standalone devices that store ingredients and cook up a variety of […]
Restaurants Are ‘Always Blamed’ When It Comes to Bad Delivery. Here’s How Tech Can Help
Who is responsible when something goes wrong with delivery? A succinct-yet-apt answer to that question recently came from fast casual chain Wow Bao’s President and CEO Geoff Alexander, who spoke […]