Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
Tiger Global has invested $3 million in CheckMate, a service that helps restaurants unify orders received across multiple platforms, according to TechCrunch. This is a Series A round for CheckMate […]
Online grocery shopping is projected to hit $100 billion by 2022. But study after study has shown consumers are reluctant to buy fresh ingredients online, preferring instead to inspect items […]
Talk to most folks in the fast-casual industry and they’ll suggest a restaurant chain needs a strong delivery strategy, or at least a strong relationship with third-party delivery services, in […]
Softbank is investing $375 million into food delivery and logistics company, Zume, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. Softbank is also expected to invest another round […]
Deliv, the appropriately named same day delivery service, announced today that it has closed a $40 million Series C round that includes Google as an investor. This brings the total […]
Investors have a big appetite for food delivery companies this year. The Wall Street Journal reports on Pitchbook data revealing that $3.5 billion has been invested in food and grocery […]
Uber is reportedly working to fast track food delivery by drone. Think: Burritos, burgers or boxes of baked beans zipping about overhead. Free of the congested city streets and sidewalks, […]
Uber really wants to deliver your burger (or burrito, or whatever) by drone, and is accelerating its plans to make that happen. According to a story in The Wall Street […]
Warehouse chain Sam’s Club announced today that it is expanding its partnership with Instacart to bring same day delivery to more than half of all Sam’s Clubs across the country […]
Grocery delivery startup Instacart announced today that it has raised another $600 million in a new funding round led by D1 Capital Partners. According to Crunchbase, this brings the total amount of […]
You could see the growth of our Smart Kitchen Summit this year just by looking at the sponsor section. Back in 2015, the sponsor area was a few tabletops scattered […]
Despite writing about food technology (and the evolution of food retail in particular), I held off on getting my groceries online. I live close enough to a grocery store that […]
