We Need to Talk About Cashierless Checkout (Again!)
Since we just held a Spoon event this week focused on reducing waste, I thought it appropriate to recycle my headline from earlier this year: We Need to Talk About […]
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InnerPlant Raises $5.65M to Turn Plants Into “Living Sensors” and Mitigate Crop Loss
Agtech company InnerPlant, which is changing plant DNA to create “living sensors” that mitigate crop loss, has raised $5.65 million in pre-seed and seed funding, according to an official announcement […]
Switzerland: Smyze’s Robot Barista Makes Coffee and Mocktail Drinks
Switzerland-based robots startup Smyze is a lot like other robot baristas already out on the market. It’s eponymous robot is a self-contained kiosk installed in high-traffic areas, users order drinks […]
RIND Raises $6.1M for Upcycled Fruit Snacks
RIND Snacks, a startup that produces upcycled dried fruit snacks, this week announced that it has raised $6.1 million in a Series A round of funding (news from Forbes). This […]
Horizon Europe Allocates €32M for Sustainable Protein Research
Horizon Europe, a European Union funding program for research and innovation, announced today that it has €32 million in funding available for research into more sustainable protein options such as […]
Motif FoodWorks Raises $226M to Improve the Taste of Plant-Based Proteins
Plant-based food tech company Motif FoodWorks has raised a whopping $226 million in Series B funding, according to an announcement sent to The Spoon. The round was co-led by Ontario […]
Animal-Free Dairy Startup Change Foods Closes $2.1M Seed Round
Change Foods, a startup best known at this point for making animal-free cheese via a fermentation process, has closed an oversubscribed Seed round of $2.1 million. Investors include Plug and […]
Zippin and AiFi Announce New Cashierless Checkout Store Locations
It’s not even noon pacific time as I write this and it’s already been a day packed full of cashierless checkout news. Things kicked off when Amazon announced a new […]
Underground Cellar Raises $12.5M for its Gamified “Upgrade” Wine Service
Underground Cellar, which aims to entice wine buyers with the promise of random upgraded bottles of wine, announced today that it has raised a $12.5 million Series A round of […]
Deliveroo Is Running a Reusable Container Program in Paris
Deliveroo France and circular-packaging company barePack have started offering customers of the delivery service the option to get their food delivered in reusable containers, according to a report from Green […]
Dishpatch Raises £10M for ‘Finish at Home’ Meal Delivery Service
Dishpatch, a finish-at-home meal kit service based in the U.K., has raised £10 million (~$14 million USD) in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and LocalGlobe, who co-led the round. Other […]
Refraction AI Launches Robotic Delivery Service in Austin, Texas
Refraction AI announced today that it is expanding its delivery robot service outside of Michigan and into Austin, Texas. This is the second location for Refraction’s robots, which will offer […]
