Retailers: Don’t Fret Over Online Grocery’s Downward Trend
In looking at Brick Meets Click/Mercatus online grocery sales data since March of this year, you might start to worry. After matching a record high of $9.3 billion in total […]
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Uber Expands Grocery Delivery to 400 US Cities, Adds Albertsons Brands as Partners
Uber’s grocery delivery service is now available in more than 400 cities across the U.S., according to an announcement sent to The Spoon. The company has also added Albertsons retail […]
Food Rocket Going Beyond Speedy Grocery Through Ghost Kitchens and an Open Platform
The sudden proliferation of speedy grocery delivery startups like San Francisco’s Food Rocket has been one of the bigger food tech stories of 2021. But for Vitaly Alexandrov, Co-Founder, and […]
With New Smart Grills, Next Summer Will Be Smokin’
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PitchBook: More than $10B Invested in Grocery Startups This Year
We’ve been saying that investment in grocery startups is downright frothy this year, and now PitchBook has put a number to all this VC activity. CNBC reports that venture-backed grocery […]
Rise of the Beer Robots!
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Czech Online Grocer Rohlik Raises $119M, Its Second Nine-Digit Round This Year
Czech online grocery startup Rohlik announced today that it has raised a €100 million (~$119M USD) Series C round of funding. TechCrunch was first to report the news, writing that […]
Google Launches a Tool to Help Americans Struggling With Food Security
Google launched its new Find Food Support website today, which aims to connect people struggling with food insecurity to resources like food banks, school lunch programs, and food pantries. Google said […]
ResQ Raises $7.5M for Back-of-House Restaurant Tech
ResQ, whose software platform manages restaurant repair and maintenance tasks, has raised $7.5 million in seed funding, bringing its total funding thus far to $9 million. Homebrew, Golden Ventures, and […]
Recipe Sharing App Whisk an Early Test Partner for TikTok’s New Jump Program
This week TikTok officially launched its Jump program, a new feature which allows third party apps to integrate with the hugely popular social video app. The new integration allows someone […]
Speedy Grocery Delivery. Big Money. Flink and Getir Each Raise Big Rounds of Funding
Just when you thought investment in the European grocery delivery space couldn’t get any frothier, both Flink and Getir announced massive rounds of new funding today. Germany-based Flink raised a […]
Food Rescue Hero Now Makes Home Deliveries of Potential Food Waste
According to the EPA, 20 percent of what ends up in municipal landfills is food. Yet at the same, 35 million Americans experience food insecurity, and that number jumped to […]
