Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
Food-X Technologies, which creates a software platform to help retailers facilitate their online grocery shopping and delivery, announced last week that it had received a $2.6 million Canadian (~$1.95M USD) […]
Ag tech company, AppHarvest, announced yesterday that it has raised a $28 million Series C round of funding. The round was led by J.D. Vance’s Narya Capital, with participation from […]
Amazon announced its Q2 earnings yesterday, and unsurprisingly, the company’s grocery business went gangbusters during that time. Amazon said that its online grocery sales tripled in Q2 compared with the […]
An unusually high volume of food tech investment news has kept us on our toes all summer, and we’re not the only ones to notice. Food tech VC firm Finistere […]
Online grocer FreshDirect announced today that it has partnered with Fabric to build out an automated, robotic grocery e-commerce facility in the D.C. Metro Area. This is the first public […]
There was much ado about food tech funding this week. Seriously. Between Cooks Ventures’ Series A, Zuul’s $9 million round, and all the figures in between, we barely had time […]
MissFresh, a Chinese online grocer, announced yesterday that it has raised a $495 million funding round led by China International Capital Corp., with participation from new investors ICBC and the […]
Online grocery subscription service Misfits Market announced today that it has raised an $85 million Series B round of funding. The round was led by Valor Equity Partners with participation […]
Noops, a new company that makes plant-based pudding snacks from oat milk, today announced its U.S. launch online and in some retail locations. The company also announced it has closed […]
Today Instacart sued Cornershop, which Uber bought a majority stake in last year, alleging that Cornershop stole product images and other intellectual property. The Information was first to report on […]
One question that comes up when you talk about cashierless checkout is, What do you do with all the cashiers that are no longer needed? Veeve, with its smart shopping […]
NUGGS, the company behind the plant-based chicken nuggets of the same name, announced a bunch of things this morning including: It’s rebranding its parent company name to Simulate, it has […]
