Tag: grocery

Tech can fight food waste, but it’s ‘just one part of the solution’

May 24, 2023

Ending food waste may calls for bolder action (and thinking) than any one behavioral change or technology can provide.

Beyond price parity, CEA must focus more on consumer demand to truly scale

March 29, 2023

As pricing parity gets closer to conventionally grown produce, focus on demand attributes will be increasingly important to the whole industry.

March moves: Robot pizza CEO steps down, Meati beefs up C-suite, new execs for DoorDash, Flashfood

March 6, 2023

Plus, the USDA’s office of the chief scientist gets a new director and cultivated meat startup Upside Foods expands its leadership team.

Brief: Divert bags $100m, strikes $1bn infrastructure deal with Enbridge to turn food waste into biogas

March 1, 2023

The deal will help Divert build more anaerobic digestion facilities across North America to turn food waste from grocery stores into renewable gas.

Meet the founder: FoodShot winner About Fresh talks transforming healthcare to improve food accessibility

February 3, 2023

With a fintech platform and food prescription program, About Fresh is making food accesiblity a reality for more Americans.

Brief: Gotham Greens raises $310m to build greenhouses across the US

September 13, 2022

The indoor farming company aims to make its greenhouse-grown leafy greens and herbs available to 90% of US consumers in the near future.

Instant grocery delivery’s future looks murky as Getir, Gorillas & Zapp announce cuts

May 26, 2022

Layoffs, redundancies, and cooling investor sentiment are the major themes for instant grocery delivery startups this week.

Data Snapshot: 2021’s top deals for food waste startups driven by environment & economics

March 2, 2022

Funding for food waste solutions up and down the supply chain reflects the growing importance of the category for businesses, consumers, and investors alike.

Consumers think grocery stores have a lot more work to do on sustainability

February 28, 2022

More than half of survey respondents said grocery stores must improve their sustainability claims and avoid greenwashing.

S2G leads $12m Series A for food rescue app Flashfood

February 28, 2022

Funding will support further expansion of Flashfood’s food rescue and redistribution program at grocery retailers across the US.

Brief: Relex raises $568m to help grocery retailers fight food waste

February 18, 2022

Food retailers need technologies that can automate the supply chain to minimize disruptions and optimize inventory management.

Plenty raises $400m from Walmart, others in vertical farming’s largest funding to date

January 25, 2022

A strategic partnership with Walmart includes putting Plenty’s vertically-grown greens on Californian store shelves this year.

Better Origin on using insects to produce ‘carbon-neutral’ eggs for Morrisons

December 22, 2021

The UK startup will use its insect farms to turn food waste from Morrisons supermarkets into feed for hens to produce ‘carbon-neutral’ eggs.

Brief: Walmart robot provider Symbotic announces $5.5bn SoftBank SPAC

December 14, 2021

Symbotic said it’ll use the proceeds to “accelerate its growth plans” and “efficiently deliver on its contracted backlog.”

Spoiler Alert raises $11m to help CPGs sell surplus inventory & cut food waste

December 1, 2021

The Series A round led by Collaborative Fund will allow the Boston-based startup to enhance its ‘liquidation platform’ that helps CPG brands reduce food waste.

Sizing up America’s Thanksgiving food waste problem

November 25, 2021

Americans could generate more than 300 million pounds of food waste this year as Thanksgiving gatherings resume and aspirational shopping abounds. The carbon footprint associated with that waste is the same as driving 169,000 cars for a full year, according to non-profit ReFed.