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Food delivery startups dominated the news in April. Read about the most interesting funding, M&A and partnership deals in the food tech media space.
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.
Market Needs
Infographics of the Week: What 7.68 Million Food Ratings Tell Us About Our Eating Habits
Massive Health Analyzes How Healthy We Think We Eat [Infographic]Infographic of the Week: ‘Pink Slime’ & Processed Red Meat Are Bad for You
ScanAvert: The Future of Shopping with Dietary Restrictions
Infographic of the Week: Why GE Foods Should be Labeled
Calling Food & Tech Innovators to the Health Datapalooza
Infographic of the Week: What We Think vs. What We Do: America’s Nutrition Evolution
Infographics of the Week: Water Footprint of Humanity
James Beard’s Mitchell Davis on What a Better Food System Tastes Like [Video]
Stop-Motion Animation of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules [Video]
Innovation
Is the future of food brand advertising and recipe website monetization "native advertising"? Yummly thinks so. Today, the semantic recipe website launched what appears to be the first of its kind native advertising platform for food and beverage bra[...]
Working with the likes of Square, Dropbox and Yelp, Cater2me's office catering service makes it easy for companies to enjoy local, conversation-provoking foods from the best food trucks, mom and pop restaurants and caterers.
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The USAID recently held a hackathon focused on improving food security in developing nations. Many of the projects exhibited innovative uses of data, technology and mapping in order to provide crop growing advice, insights into land acquisition or nu[...]
A number of startups are linking farmers and eaters directly but most don’t focus on meat. But Chicago-based Red Meat Market, which connects local ranchers directly with consumers and retailers, makes it work, in part, by owning its own processing fa[...]
We have been following accelerator programs popping up around the country and became particularly interested with the ARK challenge, which launched its inaugural class in August and focuses specifically on retail, logistics and food processing startu[...]
There has been an explosion in new resources and technologies for local and regional food systems. The folks over at Food Hub recently launched an interactive graphic to help make sense of these technologies according to their use across the s[...]
Craft Coffee is a monthly subscription service that delivers, well, craft coffee right to your door. They recently launched a fundraising campaign to expand the business and, in part, build an accessible database of thousands of tasting notes that wi[...]
Ever go out to eat, have a delicious ethnic meal, and leave thinking you’ll never know how it’s made? Global Kitchen is a new startup that might have something for you. Launched by a trio with experience in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA[...]
The New York Public Library has one of the largest collections of historical restaurant menus in the world—around 45,000 in total. The NYPL makes the data available via CSV and an open API.[...]
A collection of delicious infographics produced in the 'Open Data Cooking Workshop.'[...]
Cerealize is launching a new campaign this week that’ll let people choose from one of two custom cereal box designs: Obama and Romney.[...]
TangoTab is a deal maker with a conscious. Unlike other services like Groupon and Living Social, it has a socially responsible angle – it donates a meal for every coupon you use – and offers restaurants access to a real-time marketing platform where [...]
Food Genius' business model has evolved, helping them land $1.2 million in funding and a partnership with GrubHub to launch Food Genius Reports, a restaurant trends dashboard for the food industry. [...]
The rise of subscription-based commerce startups gives more people the option to try new products. One such company, serving those with food allergies, is Savorfull.[...]
Door to Door Organics recently received a $2 million, Series A investment. The equity investment was made by Greenmont Capital, which focuses on early-stage companies.[...]
Locu is a local-data company that began by helping restaurants digitize and share their menus. With its new API, it has a chance to become the backbone of applications that help users discover products and services offered by local businesses. Develo[...]
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