2020: the year of robo-baristas at SFO, SJC (and other airports too?)
January 13, 2020
What’s the latest with CafeX and its robotic cafes?
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Category: FoodTech
This plant-based meat startup called This has just raised £4.7m in seed funding
January 9, 2020
This reporter visited This at their tech hub offices by Portobello Road in London last May to try its plant-based bacon alternative ahead of the launch that summer.
Future Food: Why did AgFunder’s Yanniv Dorone & Quinten Eggink pick agri-foodtech?
January 9, 2020
In this episode, I speak to two members of AgFunder’s investment team who joined the company in 2019, Yanniv Dorone and Quinten Eggink. In another holiday special – shhh, yes I know the holidays are over – they both share how they came to work in this industry and for AgFunder.
2020 predictions from agrifoodtech’s leading VCs
January 2, 2020
What a decade it’s been for the advancement of the food and agriculture industries! It was a decade spent catching up with other industries in the technological revolution. What’s in store for 2020? Five of the industry’s leading investors tell AFN.
Meet AgFunder’s venture partner Tom Shields
December 26, 2019
Tom Shields is a venture partner at AgFunder and works with the deal team on sourcing and leading investments. A serial entrepreneur, he has co-founded two highly successful companies, NetGravity (IPO 1998) and Yieldex (acquired by AppNexus/AT&T in 2015).
Best of 2019: AFN’s top 5 guest articles
December 25, 2019
To make the most of the expertise in our network and provide as much value as possible to our readers, we are super proud to share the insights of our expert network.
Future Food Holiday Special: AgFunder’s Rob Leclerc on the last decade in ag and foodtech
December 24, 2019
This episode is perhaps a tad awkward as I interview my boss Rob Leclerc, founding partner of AgFunder, but Rob was as insightful as ever, sharing his thoughts on working in and around the agriculture sector for the past decade.
What the fork? I tasted the menu of the future in Singapore
December 18, 2019
Agri-food tech events all too often fall victim to an extremely irritating shortcoming — the food served is bland and unimaginative. Thankfully, that stodgy fate did not await delegates at this year’s Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Week in Singapore.
EXCLUSIVE: Be gone packaging! Food coating startup Sufresca secures $500k seed round
December 18, 2019
Sufresca, an Israeli startup designing edible fruit and vegetable coating solutions to reduce food waste and curb plastic packaging, has just raised $500,000 seed funding from the agri-foodtech VC Rimonim, the company disclosed to AFN.
Kraft Heinz leads $12m Series A for smart checkout startup Zippin
December 12, 2019
What does a CPG company want with smart checkout technology, you ask? Data, and lots of it.
Happy McVeganuary: McDonald’s to offer first fully vegan meal in UK in Q1 2020
December 11, 2019
In the UK, the practice of Veganuary — being vegan for the month of January — is starting to catch the attention of the fast-food giants.
Exploiting Intellectual Property rights in the UK’s food and drink sector
December 11, 2019
This article is intended to demystify IP in the food and drink industry and shed light on the full extent of the opportunities available to companies to protect and benefit from their IP, with a particular focus on the role patent protection can play.
Perfect Day closes $140m Series C led by Temasek to scale B2B dairy alternatives
December 11, 2019
We asked Perfect Day why they’re leaving value on the table by focusing on partnerships and not marketing its own brand and how they’re staying ahead of the competition.
UPDATE: Bond Pet Foods raises $1.2m seed round to take the animal out of pet food
December 6, 2019
Did you know that if America’s cats and dogs were a country, they’d be the fifth largest consumer of meat products globally? Now add the world’s pets into that; that’s a big contribution to the carbon footprint of the world’s meat industry.
SoftBank-backed Accel Robotics is blending online & physical with check-out free technology
December 5, 2019
So far, checkout-free technologies appear to be using the same recipe of technology: will they be forced to diversify or die?
Tech can halt African Swine Fever in Asia
December 4, 2019
My time spent scouting out various ASF tech solutions at the Asia-Pacific Agri Tech Innovation Week in Singapore has given me cause for cautious optimism.
Will Smith-backed Jinx explains why we need “digitally native,” modern dog food
December 4, 2019
Hint: Jinx isn’t really about dogs. It’s about the people who own dogs.
Is every day Cyber Monday now?
December 2, 2019
As US consumers show more interest in online offerings, retailers are upping their digital game this holiday season — including food retailers.
What the fork? Karana wishes “Happy Jacksgiving” with alt turkey
November 28, 2019
I tried Karana’s alt turkey at the recent Asia Agri-Food Innovation Week in Singapore. Here’s what I thought.
President Barack Obama or Eddie Vedder? My week at Dreamforce
November 27, 2019
Luckily I didn’t have to choose. Here’s a few things I heard while living it up at the St Regis and bumping into celebs at every turn.
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