Tag: food tech

Tushop secures $3m pre-seed funding to scale affordable community e-grocery in Kenya

April 14, 2022

Kenya’s Tushop is scaling to allow communities to purchase groceries in groups, thereby getting wholesale prices for goods.

COP26: More government investment in innovation needed for food resilience, says USDA’s Vilsack

November 8, 2021

US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack discussed the role of government in advancing climate-smart practices and resilient food systems.

Sodexo partners with container farming startup Freight Farms to bring indoor ag to college campuses

January 29, 2020

Freight Farms’ container farms can be integrated into food-focused curricula or provide work-study opportunities for curious students, as well as supplying their canteens.

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?

EXCLUSIVE: Former USDA Sec’y & UNICEF director Ann Veneman joins board of Full Harvest

October 29, 2019

Ann Venemean tells AFN her thoughts on where agri-foodtech can improve, plant-based protein, and one of the biggest takeaways from her career to date.

World Food Day 2019: Cooking up new crops for the future

October 16, 2019

#WorldFoodDay calls for action to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and accessible to everyone. We find out what chefs and suppliers are doing.

UK Supermarket Sainsbury’s Chews Over What Food Will Be Like in 2169, And It’s Kind of Bonkers

June 7, 2019

As part of its 150th birthday celebrations this year, the British supermarket giant J Sainsbury has released its Future of Food Report, which chews over what our food systems will be like in 2025, then in 2050 — and finally, with an act of somewhat extraordinary ruminating — in 2169.

Future Food: A Moonshot Idea of Avocados? Nadia El Hadery from UK’s YFood Shares Her Food Tech Journey

May 16, 2019

“What is foodtech? Isn’t that delivery? Delivery is so done!” That’s what Nadia El Hadery remembers people saying back in 2015 when she held the

Cultivian Sandbox closes third fund on $135m with bevy of food & ag corporate LPs

April 23, 2019

Cultivian Sandbox Ventures was the first to focus entirely on technology startups operating across the food and agriculture value chain.

FoodBytes! Founder Manuel Gonzalez Talks FoodTech, Deal Flow and New Fund Global RIFF

April 3, 2019

Last month, Manuel Gonzalez announced plans to raise a new foodtech fund called Global RIFF (Revolution in Food Fund). We caught up with him to find out more about the investment model and the food tech categories he’s most excited about.

EXCLUSIVE: India’s Intello Labs Raises $2m Seed Round to Measure Quality of Food Crops with an App

April 2, 2019

Intello Labs is an Indian agtech startup using computer vision and deep learning to measure the quality of crops.

Reclaiming the Promise of Food for Health

March 14, 2019

The real power to endow people with fundamentally longer, healthier lives resides in the hands of the food industry, writes Jim Flatt.

Future Food: Will We Have Kitchens in 2050? Climate Corp Founder Friedberg Shares His Vision of Future Food System

March 12, 2019

What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to chef, farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food!