Last Week’s Top Food Tech News Stories

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From how Sourcery is revolutionizing restaurant ingredient sourcing to 10 chefs helping transform sustainable food, these are last week’s top food tech news stories. Like what you read? Feast your eyes on the full roundup here. Or better yet, sign up for our newsletter and get the latest and greatest in food tech delivered to your inbox every week.

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1. How Sourcery’s Payment Platform Aims to Revolutionize The Way Restaurants Source Food

The platform lets restaurants, commercial kitchens and food retailers, easily place orders with multiple local suppliers and farms.

2. Spoon University Creates Yelp for Campus Food

Hack//Dining winner Rumble empowers students to have a voice in their campus dining experience, while providing institutions with actionable analytics on putting that feedback into practice.

3. 10 Topics to Know Cold for The Perfect VC Pitch: Part 3

Getting ready to fundraise? Don’t miss the final installment of Yummly COO’s VC pitch best practices dive.

4. Pulsar Network Capital Starts New €75M Sustainable Food Fund –Pulsar Network Capital

The Dutch private equity firm  just announced its Sustainable Food Fund, a new €75 million impact investment fund focused solely on healthy and sustainable food.

5. 10 Chefs Helping to Revolutionize Sustainable Food – Food Tank

Ten chefs employ various farming and gardening techniques to supply their eateries with fresh, seasonal food.

6. Jet Blue to Serve Passengers Cricket Protein Bars – Eater

The airline has teamed up with AccelFoods to create a snack box of the accelerator’s startups’ products, including Exo cricket bars.

7. Walmart And Whole Foods Are Slowly Killing Traditional Supermarkets – Huffington Post

The share of the grocery market held by traditional supermarkets will fall to about 37 percent in 2018 from about 40 percent in 2013.

8. Adapt-N Closes $2.2M for Cloud-based Soil Prescription Technology – AgFunder

The funding came from Arthur Ventures, Cayuga Venture Fund and Armory Square Ventures and will be used to scale its teams, expand work with partners and extend its offering to more crops.

9. Americans Throw Away More Food Than Any Other Kind of Trash– Ryot

Food made up more than 20% of our overall garbage in 2012, which means we’re tossing more food than plastic, paper, metal, or glass.