Italian Bioengineer Spins Plants into Meat with 3D Printer
Texture and mouthfeel are big hurdles faced by manufacturers of meat alternatives. Making plants imitate the texture of a burger, a chicken nugget, or even a sausage can be tricky, sure; […]
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A Plant-Based Tour of What I Ate at the Good Food Conference
You don’t attend the Good Food Conference (GFC) for the food. You go there to hear the Big Guns of the meat alternatives movement — like Seth Goldman of Beyond Meat, […]
Good Catch Foods Reels In $8.7 Million for Plant-Based Seafood
Good Catch Foods, the Pennsylvania-based startup which makes seafood out of plants, closed an $8.7 million Series A funding round yesterday. This ups their Series A from the $5.5 million the […]
Food Tech News Roundup: Plant-Based Updates, Beverage Fundraising, & (Near) Instant Cake
This was a very meaty week for food tech! No — literally. From Crowd Cow’s $8 million fundraise to our Future of Meat meetup last night, there was plenty to sink […]
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 […]
SuperMeat Raises $3M Seed for its Lab-Grown Chicken
Israeli startup SuperMeat, which is developing lab-grown chicken meat, announced today that it has raised $3 million in seed funding (hat tip to TechCrunch) and formed a partnership with PHW, […]
The Food Tech News Show: Is Smell-O-Vision Finally Ready for Prime Time?
Welcome to the Food Tech News Show! This week, Mike and Carlos discuss the following stories: Osmo is trying to digitize the world of smells and use AI to finally […]
Food Tech Weekly: AI’s Impact on Food Accelerating, Whirlpool Lays Off Yummly Team
This is the online version of The Spoon Newsletter. You can subscribe to The Spoon and get deliver director to your inbox. Over the past month, we’ve seen more and […]
Chef Robotics Hits 10M Meal Milestone in Under Two Years. The Secret? AI-Powered Robots Trained With Lots of Field Data
This week, food automation startup Chef Robotics told The Spoon it had reached the ten million-meal milestone, less than two years after the company’s first robot was deployed in June […]
We Must Still Define Regenerative Agriculture
This guest post was written by Nate Crosser, J.D., is a food and agriculture technology investor. Imagine a sandwich that actually made you – and the world – healthier by […]
XPRIZE Announces Finalists For $15M Competition to Develop More Sustainable Protein
XPRIZE, an organization that hosts competitions to seek out solutions to global challenges, announced the six finalists of its $15 million XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion (FTNB) competition. The contest, […]
Motif Continues Finished Product Expansion With Launch of Portfolio at NRA Show
Motif Foodworks, a company that develops plant-based meat alternative ingredients, has continued its expansion into finished product formats with the debut of its food service portfolio later this month at […]
