Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
“We are like Boeing.” This exact sentence was said to me in separate, back-to-back meetings at CES with Robby and Robomart. Both are autonomous vehicle companies, both are at the […]
One potential benefit of a city filled with people looking down at their phones is that they might be better able to see all the little delivery robots scurrying around […]
Third-party delivery service DoorDash just announced it has partnered with General Motors’ Cruise Automation to test autonomous vehicles in San Francisco. Cruise has been testing its autonomous vehicles in San […]
Right now the year 2019 is still (slightly) in the future, but 2019 will also be a year where we start to feel like we’re living in the future. The […]
It’s almost the holidays, and what better way to kick off this festive weekend than with a dose of food tech news? We’ve rounded up a few of our favorite […]
South Korean company Woowa Bros., which runs the Baedal Minjok food delivery app, announced yesterday that it has received a $320 million from Hillhouse Capital, Sequoia Capital and GIC. This […]
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Like Ben and Jennifer, Brad and Angelina, and Cardi B and Offset*, Instacart and Amazon have broken up. In a blog post today, Instacart announced that it was winding down […]
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 […]
This week Starbucks announced big expansion plans for Japan, which include 300 new stores and a delivery program through Uber Eats (hat tip to Nation’s Restaurant News). Over the next […]
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 […]
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 […]
