4 Ways to Secure Funding for Your Food Startup, David Chang Signs On with Delivery Startup + More

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Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman explore how creating a national food policy could save millions of lives. Whole Foods credits its partnership with Instacart for recent sales growth.  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 Food+Tech Bytes and get the latest and greatest in food tech delivered to your inbox every week.

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1. 4 Ways to Secure Funding for Your Food Startup [Infographic]

Bplans’ graphic explores the differences between VC funding, angel investment, crowdfunding and loans and is chock-full of helpful fundraising tips for food startups.

2. How The Internet Has Changed The Way We Eat – Fast Company

Our own Danielle Gould chats about how the internet is rapidly changing how we buy, cook, eat and share our food in this FastCo. video along side Blue Apron, Serious Eats and The League of Kitchens.

3. David Chang Signs on to Create Menus for Latest Upscale Delivery Service, Maple – Eater

The app-based service launches early next year, promising delivery within 15 minutes.

4. Mayonnaise Wars: Unilever Files Suit Against Startup Hampton Creek – Fortune

Unilever has a beef with San Francisco-based food startup Hampton Creek—and it’s all about eggs. Well actually, a lack of eggs.

5. Supermarket Guru® Predicts Top Food Trends for 2015 – ConAgra Foods

The growth of online grocery shopping, a preference toward craft foods, fermented foods and smoked flavors top the list.

6. How a National Food Policy Could Save Millions of American Lives – Washington Post

Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, Ricardo Salvador and Olivier De Schutter on why creating a food policy must be a national priority.

7. Whole Foods Credits Delivery Startup Instacart With Sales Growth– Silicon Beat

Existing customers are shopping more, it’s attracting new customers and Whole Foods can push promos directly to customers via mobile.

8. AGERpoint Develops Precision Ag for Tree and Vine Crops –AgFunder

It offers growers better control over their oranges, apples, etc. through efficient data collection tech and intuitive monitoring software.