Collectiv Food Raises $16.3M for B2B Food Supply Distribution
Collectiv Food, a London-based B2B food marketplace, announced today that it has raised £12 million (~$16.3 million USD) in Series A funding. The round was led by VNV Global, along […]
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Virtually Staffing the Physical Drive-Thru
Generally speaking, restaurants with drive-thrus have often fared better than most over the last year and a half of shutdowns, dining room restrictions, and overall uncertainty. But even as demand […]
BrightFarms Launches R&D Hub for Its Growing Network of Greenhouses
BrightFarms, which operates a network of greenhouses in the U.S., is launching an innovation and research hub at its Wilmington, Ohio headquarters, according to an announcement sent to The Spoon. […]
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 […]
Why 10-Minute Grocery Startups Are Not the Next Kozmo.com
Spoon readers of a certain age will undoubtedly remember Kozmo.com, the turn-of-the-century online service that would deliver snacks, magazines, DVDs and more to you in under an hour. Have a […]
Let Us Introduce You to Lemna, an Excerpt “Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change What We Eat”
The following is a excerpt from the new book, Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change What We Eat by Larissa Zimberoff, out June 1, from Abrams Press. The […]
Could Alterna-Ice Creams Eclipse Traditional Ice Cream?
This is the web version of our weekly Future Food newsletter. Subscribe to get all the best alternative protein (and ice cream) news delivered to your inbox. After five months […]
Jack Bobo on Why Some Alt-Protein Products Hit the Zeitgeist and Others Fail
Why do some alt-protein products succeed while others fizzle? According Jack Bobo, a long-time food industry consultant and author of the new book “Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices“, […]
Transcript: Excerpts From a Recent Conversation With Eat Just’s Josh Tetrick
By “in the future,” he didn’t mean next year. Anyone who keeps an eye on the cultivated meat industry knows there are many, many hurdles to leap before we’re eating […]
The Alt Chicken Sandwich Wars on the Horizon
This is the web version of our Weekly Spoon newsletter. Sign up to receive the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox. I feel like the chicken sandwich […]
Motif Adds New Tech to Bring That Elusive Stretch to Plant-Based Cheese
Motif Foodworks, the food technology spinout of synthetic biology unicorn Gingko Bioworks, announced today that it has added a couple more tools to its plant-based food technology toolbox that will […]
