Data Snapshot: It’s still early days for ghost kitchen investment
September 14, 2022
A couple mega-deals of $100 million and over are responsible for the bulk of ghost kitchen investment from the last 12 months.
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Data snapshot: The downturn is testing the value of In-Store Retail & Restaurant Tech
August 24, 2022
Some of last year’s top startups for In-Store Retail & Restaurant Tech are struggling to stay relevant in the current tech downturn.
How a little known restaurant tech provider TRAY beat 82 competitors to land IHOP
May 23, 2022
IHOP is updating its technology stack in the wake of Covid and labor shortages, picking TRAY after a competitive process with world-leading POS providers.
Chipotle hopes new $50m fund will continue its ‘technological transformation’
April 21, 2022
Cultivate Next will invest in early-stage restaurant tech that can enhance both guest and employee experiences.
Data Snapshot: Consumer facing foodtech grew 124% in 2021, but upstream saw more deals
April 13, 2022
Consumer-facing downstrream technologies bagged $32 billion in VC investment in 2021; the bulk of it was thanks to a few big eGrocery deals.
Brief: Chipotle trials kitchen automation with new tortilla chip-making robot Chippy
March 28, 2022
The US restaurant chain has teamed up with Miso Robotics to pilot kitchen automation solution Chippy.
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.
Hyphen raises $24m in Tiger-led Series A to automate restaurant makelines
February 16, 2022
Hyphen’s robotic restaurant system replaces the traditional makeline setup popularized by Chipotle and other assembly line-style concepts.
Data Snapshot: Investment in consumer-facing foodtech rebounds to $15bn in H1 2021
October 7, 2021
While investment in eGrocery services increased substantially, especially in China, the return of foot traffic to brick and mortar retailers and restaurants saw investment double in technologies servicing them.
Future Food News Review Podcast: Is cultured meat delicious? Should hydroponically-grown food be organic?
April 8, 2021
A couple of weeks ago we hosted our second Future Food News Review on Clubhouse with leading journalists in foodtech, agtech and food systems globally, including Pultizer prize-winner Kim Severson. Listen to the in-depth and nuanced discussion about the week’s top news here.
Brief: Covid-19 builds consumer trust in food system; sustainability skepticism remains – EIT Food
January 28, 2021
A new report from EIT Food suggests that consumer trust in the food sector increased during Covid-19 – but consumers are skeptical of industry intentions.
Restaurant tech is serving up funding deals mid-pandemic – but will adoption stick?
August 31, 2020
As the restaurant industry turns to tech amid Covid-19, startups are landing investment – and have a unique opportunity to accelerate tech adoption.
A Swiss raclette-cutting robot wows CES 2020 in Las Vegas
January 17, 2020
One of the robo-stars of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a slightly wacky invention from Switzerland: a robot that has been
Foodtech unicorn Zomato ‘finalizing’ $600m round led by Ant Financial, Temasek: report
October 4, 2019
Indian food tech unicorn Zomato is said to be closing a $600m funding round, led by Temasek and Ant Financial, matching a similar move by rival, Swiggy.
Cloud kitchen brand Rebel Foods raises $125m Series D funding from Goldman Sachs, Sequoia
September 23, 2019
Indian cloud kitchen giant Rebel Foods has raised $125m in Series D funding from Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, Gojek, and others.
Meet TRAY, our first investment in Restaurant Tech
August 14, 2019
Ever walked into a quick-serve restaurant only to find an anything-but-quick line that makes you turn around and walk straight back out again? Those lines may soon become a thing of the past, with the help of our latest investment, Tray.
Top 20 Retail & Restaurant Tech Startups in 2018
April 10, 2019
Retail and restaurant tech is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing technologies and services aimed at making retail food businesses more profitable as well
Founder of Agtech’s First Unicorn David Friedberg Reveals Investment Portfolio of The Production Board
February 21, 2019
You may have seen The Production Board crop up on a few agrifood tech investments, but there’s little publicly-available information about the investment holding company founded by David Friedberg. Until now.
“There Are a Lot of Palm Pilots Out There but No iPhones Yet In Consumer Indoor Farms” – Verdical CEO
November 1, 2017
The category of consumer indoor farms has been slow to get funding. We caught up with Andrew Deitz to find out how he plans to grow Verdical in this nascent category.
Ag Industry Brief: GrubHub Buys Eat24 for $288m, Mealkit IPO All Over Again, $3.2m Goes to Maize Research, more
October 13, 2017
Acquisitions in restaurant tech keep coming, HelloFresh is undeterred by Blue Apron’s disastrous IPO, new hires, new grants for Danforth, and more in this week’s brief.
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