Deane Falcone of Crop One Discusses How Indoor Farming Reduces Food Waste
When The Spoon last wrote about Crop One in 2018, the company had just announced that they were building the largest indoor hydroponic farm in the world. The farm, based […]
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The Week in Food Tech Funding: Olio Continues Food Waste’s Hot Streak
Food waste reduction is a hot investment space and one of the most active investor segments within the broader category in surplus food marketplaces. And last week food waste kept […]
Food Waste Start-up Agricycle Global Raises $2.4M Seed Round
Agricycle Global, a food and agriculture waste start-up based in Wisconsin, announced this week that it has raised a two-part seed round totaling $2.4 million. The round was led by […]
Orbisk Raises €1.05M for its Food Waste Fighting AI for Restaurants
Food waste fighting startup Orbisk announced today that it has raised a €1.05 million (~$1.23M USD) Seed round of funding. The round was led by FoodSparks by PeakBridge, with participation […]
Apeel Raises $250 Million to Accelerate Its Fight Against Food Waste
Apeel, best known for its shelf-life-extension technology for produce, has raised a $250 million Series E round of funding led by Temasek. Additional participants include Mirae Asset Global Investments, GIC, […]
Sama Provides the Data to Fight Food Waste and Power Cashierless Checkout
When we talk about artificial intelligence (AI) in food tech, it’s often about the end result: Cashierless checkout, crop assessment, autonomous vehicles, etc. But one thing that these solutions and […]
Too Good To Go Partners With Waze to Fight Food Waste
Too Good To Go is an app that connects users to stores and restaurants with unsold surplus food and offers it at a discounted price. This week, the company announced […]
JOKR and Too Good To Go Team Up to Help Eliminate Food Waste with Mystery Boxes
When it comes to fighting food waste, every little bit helps. So while the new partnership between speedy delivery grocery service JOKR and food rescue app Too Good To Go […]
Plant Jammer Expands Its Food Waste Tech to Aldi, RIMI Baltic
Aldi Süd and RIMI Baltic are among the first large food companies to implement Plant Jammer’s new food-waste-fighting widget on their websites, according to a press release from Plant Jammer […]
Food Tech News: Food Waste Sneakers, Cell-Ag Children’s Book, and Bon Appétit’s New App
If you had a busy week and missed out on news in the food tech space, we’ve got you covered. In this round-up, we gathered some news on Bon Appétit’s […]
Flashfood Partners With Giant to Bring Its Food Waste App to More Grocery Stores
Up to now, Flashfood’s surplus grocery/food waste-fighting service has enjoyed a noteworthy but fairly small presence among American consumers. New developments are set to change that. The Canada-based company recently […]
There’s More to Food Waste Innovation Than Tech, According to ReFED’s Dana Gunders
This being The Spoon, a lot of our discussions around food waste concern the innovative technologies that could help us eventually curb the multi-billion-dollar problem and meet national and international […]
