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15 food accelerators and incubators launched in 2014, including FOOD-X and The Good Food Business Accelerator, as well as incubators from Marriot and Coca-Cola. [...]
Over $230M was pumped into food tech in December, including Instacart's $220M Series C, Kitchit's $7.5M Series A & Dinner Lab's $2M private placement offering. [...]
6 food crowdfunding and investor matching platforms launched last year, including Barnraiser, Crowdfooding, EquityEats, fundafeast and Farmers Funding.[...]
The number of new food and agriculture investment funds nearly doubled from 2013 to 2014. Here's a rundown of the food and ag funds that launched last year.[...]
From Marriot's new food and beverage incubator to Food Tank's list of 101 food organizations to watch in 2015, here's last week’s juiciest food tech news. [...]
More than $260 million was invested in food tech in November, with a heavy leaning towards ordering and delivery (particularly in the restaurant space).[...]
Food Tech deal activity was robust in October with 8 acquisitions and 12 financings, as the sector reported an influx of $32.3 million for the month.[...]
Crowdfunding is the go-to way for burgeoning food projects to test market viability, raise capital and cultivate loyalty. Check out these innovative ideas. [...]
Bplans' graphic explores the differences between VC funding, angel investment, crowdfunding and loans and is chock-full of helpful fundraising tips for food startups. [...]
Over $800m was pumped into food tech in September, including $517m in eleven equity fundings and $300m via two acquisitions. Digital grocery was the major theme. [...]
Six acquisitions and eight financings in August brought almost $510 million into the food tech & media ecosystem (versus $740m in July).[...]
$1.79 billion was pumped into ag and agtech in August, Singapore's gov't announced a $63 million fund for farmers and Village Capital launched an ag accelerator. [...]
With 6 acquisitions and 10 fundings, the food tech media sector was infused with $740 million in July. The "convenience economy" was a prevalent theme.[...]
July saw $2.4b in ag and agtech funding, 4 new agribusiness funds launched worth a total of $198m, and several Gov't grants were announced worth $10.2b combined.[...]
Crowdfunding is a great way for innovative food projects to get funded and raise awareness. So we're compiling a monthly roundup of exciting campaigns. [...]
Every week we curate and deliver the latest food tech news, trends and startup resources to our readers’ inboxes. Tracking the top technology and innovation happenings across agric[...]
$401M has been pumped into 35 AgTech companies from January to mid-July, with Cool Planet Energy Systems, Marrone Bio Innovations and Chromatin, Inc raking in $176M combined. [...]
The 1H 2014 saw over $3.9 billion invested into private food tech and media companies through equity raises ($1.2b) and acquisitions ($2.7b disclosed).[...]
From Whole Foods' big move into grocery delivery to why startups might eat the food world's lunch, these are last week’s top food tech stories. [...]
This monthly column highlights the most interesting acquisitions, financings and partnerships within the Food Tech & Media ecosystem – digital content, social, local, mob[...]
This monthly column highlights the most interesting acquisitions, financings and partnerships within the Food Tech & Media ecosystem – digital content, social, local, mob[...]
Every week we curate and deliver the latest food tech news, trends and startup resources to our readers’ inboxes. We track the top technology and innovation happenings across agric[...]
This monthly column highlights the most interesting acquisitions, financings and partnerships within the Food Tech & Media ecosystem – digital content, social, local, mob[...]
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: food startup investment is on F I R E. A few weeks back we published a roundup of the recent IPOs and $5 million + raises,[...]
Holy moly. Man oh man. Food tech investment is on fire. Food tech startups – mostly online food and grocery delivery-focused – have been raising ginormous rounds left a[...]
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