Newsletter: Mapping Food Tech in 2019, Startup Accelerators to Watch
It was less than 100 years ago that the food industry figured out how to mass produce things like baby carrots and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Nowadays the buzz is around […]
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The Food Tech Show: Impossible’s First Retail Product is Almost Here And We’re Pretty Excited About It
We’ve been head’s down preparing for the fifth Smart Kitchen Summit (in just three weeks!), but The Spoon crew took some time this week to talk about some of the […]
Tally ho! Simbe Robotics Raises $26M for its Inventory-bot
Simbe Robotics, which makes the autonomous Tally inventory robot for retailers, announced today that it has raised a $26 million Series A round of funding led by Venrock with participation […]
Newsletter: Robotics Companies are Going Back to School, Our Boozey Market Map, and Investing in the Middle-Mile
This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. You should sign up for it to get all the best food tech analysis in your inbox each week. It’s not […]
Woowa Brothers Partners with UCLA to Develop Cooking Robots
Woowa Brothers Corp., the company behind South Korea’s popular food delivery app Baedal Minjok, is partnering with UCLA to research and develop cooking robots, according to a story today in […]
Amazon Shrinks Go Store to Go After Hungry Office Workers
Amazon is looking to grow its burgeoning Go store experience by thinking small. Reuters reports that Amazon has created a smaller version of its cashierless convenience store that can fit […]
Spoon Newsletter: Amazon Go’s Hiring Spree & the Future of Food Storage
Amazon Go is hiring like crazy. Tupperware is searching for the future of food storage. Zomato wants to drone deliver.
Amazon Go is On a Massive Hiring Spree, and Not Just in the U.S.
Amazon Go, the retail store that uses cashierless technology so you can walk in, choose your items, and walk out without stopping to pay, has 338 open listings on its job […]
Newsletter: Meal Kit Misfires, Microwaves with Cameras, 7-Eleven vs. Amazon Go
Happy election day! While poking around the internet last night reading election coverage, we noticed a Spoon reader comment that Boston meal kit company Just Add Cooking (JAC) has ceased […]
Study: When Do People Go to Amazon Go? (And You Won’t Believe How Long They Stay)
Amazon is reportedly going to split its forthcoming new co-headquarters across two cities. If that report turns out to be true, you can rest assured that each of those towns […]
Amazon 4-Star Store is Kinda Like a Wirecutter in Real Life
Amazon announced today that it is opening an Amazon 4-star tomorrow in New York City (h/t Geekwire). The concept of the new physical store is that it only stocks products […]
Dirty Lemon’s New “Drug Store” is Part of a Convenience Store Revolution
Dirty Lemon, a startup that sells fancy water infused with ingredients like charcoal, CBD and collagen for more than $10 a pop, made The New York Times today with its […]
