Millennial Innovators Uprooting Our Food System, High Price of Delivery App Convenience + More

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From an inside look at how Green Towers is re-imagining soil-less agriculture to what Zomato and TinyOwl’s troubles mean for the food tech sector in India, these are last week’s top food tech news and innovation stories. Like what you read? Feast your eyes on the full newsletter here. Or better yet, sign up for Food+Tech Bytes and get the latest and greatest food tech and innovation news delivered to your inbox every week.

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1. Millennial Innovators Uprooting Our Food System: Green Towers

Our new guest series profiles some of Thought For Food’s student food innovators. This week, get to know urban agriculture game-changer Green Towers.

2. How Chef’s Knife Startup Misen Raised $1M+ On Kickstarter

Misen reached its 25k goal in minutes and went on to become Kickstarter’s 4th most funded food project ever. Its co-founder shares insights, challenges and advice.

3. Fully Dressed: Hampton Creek to Be Exclusive Baking Mix, Salad Dressing Supplier to Compass Group – FoodDive

This offers the startup placement among distributors that commonly work with restaurants as well, significantly expanding its reach.

4. The High Price of Delivery App Convenience – New York Times

With delivery apps, tech companies act as a middleman connecting merchants and couriers with customers, and they pass the service charges on to the consumer.

5. TinyOwl and Zomato Are Proof That Something Is Rotten in India’s Food Tech Startups – Scroll.in

Overfunding and difficulty in cracking the billion dollar food industry code is causing trouble in the food technology space in India.

6. ShopKeep, the ‘Anti-Square,’ Rounds Out C-Suite With Eye On An IPO – re/code

ShopKeep CEO Norm Merritt thinks an IPO is possible a few years down the line, and he’s hired a C-level team he thinks can get him there.

7. Meet the Entrepreneurs Making Food Waste Edible (and Profitable) – Eater 

Featuring Misfit Juicery, Back To The Roots and more.

8. The Daily Startup: Agriculture Startups Raise Record Amount in Third Quarter – Wall Street Journal

Ag startups raised $113.6M in Q3, the highest amount raised in a quarter since Dow Jones VentureSource began collecting data in 1992.