Last Week’s Top Food Tech News & Innovation Stories

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From our roundup of the 42 food tech and agtech funding sources that launched in 2014 to Hampton Creek predicting its revenue will increase from $48M to $120M by January due to the avian flu outbreak, 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. Announcing ‘How Nutrition Tech Personalizes Eating’ Meetup

Join us on June 16 at the R/GA Accelerator for an inside look at Edamam, Ingredient1, Power Supply and more. Hear about their business models, tech and lessons learned.

2. 42 New Food Tech & Agtech Funding Opportunities Launch in 2014

A whopping 42 new funding opportunities launched in 2014 including 21 investment funds, 15 accelerators and corporate incubators and 6 crowdfunding platforms. Check them all out in one place.

3. Why There Won’t Be An “Amazon for Restaurant Supply” Anytime Soon

How Improvonia is streamlining the ordering process between restaurants and their suppliers without pitting suppliers against one another (a la Amazon).

4. Popcart Makes Bon Appétit and Epicurious Recipes Shoppable – AdWeek

Fresh Direct and Peapod are among its grocery launch partners.

5. Avian Flu Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to This Startup – Inc. 

An epidemic that has wiped out millions of chickens is turning Hampton Creek into the world’s fastest-growing food company, says CEO Josh Tetrick.

6. NFL Star Russell Wilson Backs a Frozen-food Startup – Fortune

He’s the second major American athlete to invest in Luvo, a startup with a growth rate of about 50% that makes healthy, veggie-packed frozen meals.

7. Takeout Giant Delivery Hero Raises Another $110M At Over $3.1B Valuation Ahead Of IPO – TechCrunch

Funding cam from two unnamed “leading public market investors”.

8. How a Food Truck Empire Learned from Tech Companies without Becoming One –Pandodaily

An inside look at how bootstrapped Off the Grid has been profitable since day one, as well as its plans for the future.

9. Precision Irrigation Provider Hortau Secures $5M Investment from ACAP – Agfunder

The investment will allow the company to make its system more affordable and accessible to its growers, as well as to accelerate adoption.

10. As Much as 90 Percent of Americans Could Eat Food Grown Within 100 Miles of Their Home – Washington Post

This is according to a new study published by Andrew Zumkehr and J Elliott Campbell in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.