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Calling all hackers, food industry “steakholders,” entrepreneurs and creatives: Registration for Hack//Meat Silicon Valley is now open! June 21-23, 2013 // Palo Alto, California WHAT IS HACK//MEAT SILICON VALLEY? Following the success of Hack//Meat NYC, we heard nonstop from our friends and colleagues on the West Coast that they wanted a chance to
A roundup of M&A, partnership and funding deals for food startups focused on content, communities, commerce and analytics in March 2013.- A roundup of M&A, partnership and funding deals for food startups focused on content, communities, commerce and analytics in February 2013.
FTC shares our recent fails and invites food and health startups to share their own stories of failure and lessons learned in our new "Fail Friday" series.
Market Needs
Submit Entries for The 5th Computer Cooking Contest
Survey Reveals Lack of Transparency on Antibiotic Use In Our Food[Infographic of the Week] Superbugs: From Farm To You
Consumer Insights: Growing Demand for Meat Without Antibiotics [Video]
FoodMood Measures Global Food Sentiment
Infographics of the Week: American Waistlines Grow as Grocery Spending Decreases
Milk Jugs + Tech: Are They Solving Real Problems?
[Infographic of the Week] How to Create 189k Jobs & Increase Healthy Food Sales by $9.5B
Infographic of the Week: Weight of the Nation & Obesity PreventionInfographic of the Week: Organic Food & Beverage Sales Reach $29.2 Billion in 2011
Innovation
Hacking Meat is an online conversation exploring how can information and technology be used to hack (or reimagine) a more sustainable, profitable and healthy future of meat. Join the conversation and share your ideas or product requests in the commen[...]
Subscription-based startups that help you discover new foods and products have been on the rise in the last two years. Now, an established heavyweight wades into the mix: Walmart. Walmart Labs announced that it is launching Goodies — a subscrip[...]
Food & Water Watch is convinced that we can’t shop our way out of our meat system problems – first we need to change the bad policy that has gotten us here.[...]
Food Genius argues that consumers aren't the only ones at fault for their trouble cooking. Food producers have become increasingly responsible.[...]
Will Turnage explores software solutions for scaling small-scale local meat from an online marketplace for the group buying of meat to a custom ordering system local butcher shops.[...]
As a software engineer descended from three generations of butchers, Mike Caprio uses his ability to decompose complex problems into structured solutions to break down some of the problems facing the meat industry.[...]
Hacking Meat is an online conversation exploring the ways that data, technology and new communication methodologies can be used to create a more sustainable, profitable and healthy future of meat[...]
Mark your calendar! From December 7 - 9, Food+Tech Connect, GRACE Communications and Applegate are bringing together technologists, entrepreneurs, creatives, policy experts, non-profit leaders and industry executives o develop technologies and tools[...]
There are many citizens, restaurants, bars, retail shops and farmers in need of everything from clothes, food and technical assistance to financial support, help cleaning up and hungry, thirsty customers. The following is a list of ways you can volun[...]
New high-tech prototypes offer a window into the future of shopping and cooking. Here are two shopping and cooking innovations that might get you imaging the day when you checkout without scanning a single item or walk into a restaurant and a robot i[...]
Earlier this year, corporate food giants Kraft and Nestlé Australia opened up their recipe and ingredient data to developers and consumers. While these are just first steps, we hope it’s an increasing trend that will give rise to new applicatio[...]
Coming out of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco was this gem of a video featuring TechCrunch and CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington interviewing the “legendary” investor Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, on how [...]
On Wednesday night, the food+tech community packed into 4Food for the latest Meetup where the theme was the business of food e-commerce. There were over 140 people in attendance! The demos, from Ordr.in, Blue Apron and ChopChopGo! showed off how thes[...]
Amidst a growing debate over the labeling of food made with ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms (GMO), Fooducate released a new feature this week that helps grocery shoppers identify which products are made with GMO ingredients. T[...]
Partnerships can instantly boost a companies reach or offerings. In the food+tech space, we’re seeing a number of relevant couplings. OpenMenu and FoodTracker OpenMenu’s partnership with FoodTracker gives diners quick access to nutrition inform[...]
Last Saturday, a carefully curated group of developers and hackers gathered at Pivotal Labs for Ordr.in’s daylong HackFood event. The theme was food. The plan was to hack. And that was about it for rules. For anyone that may not be familiar, Ordr.in [...]
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