HelloFresh Jumps on Bandwagon to Sell Meal Kits in Grocery Stores
HelloFresh will start selling its meal kits at 600 Giant Food and Stop & Shop locations starting this week, The Wall Street Journal reports, as the meal kit sector’s migration […]
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WePlenish Launches Kickstarter For Amazon Dash-Powered Grocery Reordering Container
You know that searing anger and frustration you feel when you think you have one more coffee pod (or energy bar, or teabag) left, but instead you’re greeted with an empty container? […]
Del Monte Invests $4M in Vegan Meal Kit Maker Purple Carrot
Plant-based meal kit company Purple Carrot just announced a $4 million equity investment from Fresh Del Monte Produce. The Needham, Massachusetts-based company reportedly plans to use the money to improve […]
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 […]
Soft Robotics Gets a Firm Grip on $20 Million
Soft Robotics has raised $20 million to expand the use of its “air actuated soft elastomeric end effectors.” Put another way–the company just raised a bunch of money for its […]
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 […]
Scoop: Seattle Food Tech Raises $1M to Jumpstart Plant-Based Meat Manufacturing
You’ve heard of Impossible Foods, you’ve heard of Beyond Meat — but there’s a new plant-based meat company on the scene. Seattle Food Tech launched in 2017 and recently raised a […]
Personalized Nutrition Analytics Platform Nutrino Raises $8M
Yesterday Nutrino, the Israeli personalized nutrition company, announced the completion of its $8 million Series A funding round. Nielsen Ventures, Pereg Ventures, and Gandyr Group joined existing investors, including the […]
Plated and Albertsons go Nationwide as Meal Kits Move from Mailbox to Grocery Aisle
In 2007 a woman in Sweden launched the meal kit concept under the company name Middagsfrid, which roughly translates to “dinnertime bliss.” I don’t know how many working parents would […]
Instacart Takes Home Another $150 Million
Instacart, the grocery delivery startup, has raised an additional $150 million in funding. This new cash is part of its existing Series E round and in addition to the $200 […]
Plant-Based Impossible Foods Raises $114 Million
Perhaps the universe is trying to tell us something this week. The day after 7,000 pounds of raw beef was recalled across nine states, Impossible Foods, maker of a meatless […]
FoodLogiQ Raises $19.5M to Promote “Traceability” in the Food Industry
FoodLogiQ, the Durham-based platform that helps food industry professionals trace their supply chains, just raised $19.5 million in their most recent funding round. This comes a few months after they snagged $4.25 […]
