Last Week’s Top Food Tech News & Innovation Stories

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From$250M pumped into food tech in April to 9 kick-ass food crowdfunding projects, these are last week’s top food tech news and innovation 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. Food Tech Media Startup Funding, M&A and Partnerships: April 2015

The food tech industry was quite active in April, with over $250M invested across 15 private funding deals and 11 acquisitions.

2. Blossom Coffee’s Wifi Coffee Machine Makes Great Java Accessible

Blossom Coffee’s Blossom One Brewer makes it easy for anyone to make great coffee using recipes directly from the coffee roaster.

3. Food Crowdfunding: From Cricket Powder to a Craft Cocktail Subscription Box

Our latest food crowdfunding roundup is packed with kick-ass projects like a beekeeping app, personal farming system, local food delivery van and more.

4. Join Us for Food Crowdfunding Webinar with Nomiku – June 13

Learn everything you need to know to launch a kick- ass crowdfunding campaign in 4 hours. Snag your spot to our webinar with Lisa Q. Fetterman now.

5. Meet the Machine That’s Turning Grocery Stores’ Food Waste Into Fertilizer –Entrepreneur

This duo went from high-tech to food scraps, hoping to address the fact that 40 percent of food in the U.S. goes uneaten.

6. Hormel Foods to Buy Applegate Farms for $775 Million – New York Times

The deal was Hormel’s largest acquisition ever.

7. From Soup to Fries: Amy’s Joins the “Clean” Fast Food Club – Civil Eats

The well-known organic food brand will launch Amy’s Drive Thru later this summer.

8. Farm Management Company VitalFields Closes $1.2M Series A Funding Round – AgFunder

The funding came from SmartCap and an undisclosed large Silicon Valley based investor and will be used for product development and European expansion.

9. Google Working on Technology that Counts Calories in Food Photos – National

No more clunky food diaries, no more guessing serving sizes. Snap a pic of your dinner, give it to Google and learn its caloric count.