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Kroger Buys Home Chef for $200M as Meal Kits Continue March into Grocery Stores
Kroger announced today that it’s acquiring meal kit company Home Chef for $200 million in a move that illustrates the continued transition of meal kits from a mail-order business to […]
Just Announced: SKS Europe Startup Showcase Finalists
After some excellent applications and much deliberation, we’ve selected 8 food tech startups to pitch at our SKS Europe Startup Showcase! They’re a diverse and fascinating group, covering everything from guided […]
Drinkable Meal Startup Ample Foods Raises $2M
San Francisco-based nutrition startup Ample Foods announced today that it has raised an additional $2 million in funds for the seed round, led by the VC firm Slow Ventures. The company has received previous investments […]
Food Tech News Roundup: Grocery E-Commerce, Food Fraud & Cooking Robot Goes Beta
Food tech news time! We had quite a few updates on the Spoon this week, too. Chris Albrecht launched a brand new podcast about food-related robots and AI called The […]
Food Tech News Roundup: Plastic-Free Grocery Stores, Food Waste Accelerators, & Crowd Cow Tackles Pork
This week certainly kept us busy. Bear Robotics, which we were the first to cover, got a $2M investment, and Amazon opened the door to in-car grocery delivery. We also […]
Restaurant Marketing Platform Punchh Raises $20 M in Series B Funding
Marketing software and data analytics platform Punchh — who counts the likes of Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen, and Del Taco amongst its customers — just closed a $20 million Series B […]
Six Suggestions for Alphabet X’s Agriculture Ambitions
Alphabet X (part of Google family of companies), said that it is exploring ways to use AI to improve food production. During the MIT EmTech Digital event in San Francisco […]
Mimica’s “Bumpy” Food Sensor Tells You When Your Milk Goes Bad
I’ve never felt especially constrained by expiration dates. I grew up in a household where moldy bits of cheese were simply cut off and milk was submitted to the “sniff” […]
Do Blue Apron’s In-Store Plans Mean Death for Mail Delivery Meals?
Blue Apron will start selling meal kits in stores, in a move that isn’t just a reflection of the company’s continued troubles, but could be a bellwether for the overall […]
Services that Combine Flavor and AI Are a New Food Tech Trend
Artificial Intelligence is making its way into our food system in a big way. It’s on dairy farms monitoring milk quality, in restaurants powering food-running and burger-flipping robots, and even in the […]
Chef’d Partners with Campbell’s to (Slow) Cook Up a New Range of Meal Kits
What do you get when you take a meal kit marketplace, cover it with the contents of a can of Cream of Mushroom, and let the two simmer over low? […]