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From AgFunder’s 2014 agtech funding report to Hampton Creek teaming up with Foodbuy, 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: January 2015

The new year kicked off with over $525 million pouring into the food tech and media sector through four acquisitions and twelve capital raises.

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3. Let’s Make Food Production Personal & Start a Home Growing Revolution

Grove Labs co-founder Gabe Blanchet explores how home growing can make food production more efficient while bolstering the local food movement.

4. Arming Consumers with the Tools to Demand Real Food

Lawrence Williams of USHFC on how REAL Certified empowers consumers and the foodservice industry to support real food, helping catalyze a better future.

5. AgFunder’s New Report Captures $2.36B In AgTech Investment in 2014 – AgFunder

AgTech funding had a record breaking year with $2.36 billion raised across 264 financing deals.

6. Hampton Creek, Maker of Plant-Based Protein Foods, Signs Distribution Deal With Foodbuy – The New York Times

Foodbuy, which buys some $18 billion of food annually, will begin selling Hampton Creek’s Just Cookies.

7. Inside The Secret New York Launch Of Munchery, The Delivery Startup That Might Upend Seamless – Fast Company

San Francisco’s food delivery war heads east: Munchery’s stellar team of chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants are waiting for your order.

8. The High Tech Farms Where Our Future Food Will Grow in Nothing But Air – Gizmodo

MIT’s CityFARM founder Caleb Harper talks about aeroponic farming