We’re at the beginning of a new food revolution. COVID-19 has shone a light on the vulnerabilities across our food system and created an imperative to reimagine what is possible. I[...]
Audre Kapacinskas, vice president at S2G Ventures, explores how the Pandemic is fundamentally reshaping food retail, how it is changing what and how we eat and the greatest opportu[...]
Jomaree Pinkard, co-founder and CEO of Hella Cocktail Co., outlines concrete steps businesses and investors can take to foster equity in the food, beverage and hospitality industri[...]
List of resources to learn about racism in the food and agriculture industries, as well as Black Food and Farm businesses and organizations to support. [...]
S2G Ventures' The Future of Food in the Age of COVID report explores the pandemic's impact on food & agriculture and identifies innovation opportunities.[...]
Oyster Sunday has created an extensive guide of COVID-19 resources and best practices for the hospitality and restaurant industry to help navigate difficult decisions about labor, [...]
Food you can trust. We can all remember the Thanksgiving romaine lettuce recall. It put millions of consumers at major risk of foodborne illnesses. The situation was compoun[...]
Emerging technologies are transforming how we produce, distribute, and consume what we eat by bringing food to people instead of bringing people to food. A new report by the[...]
Starting a new company is extraordinarily difficult, requiring untold hours of hard work to overcome the myriad of hurdles and pitfalls. Having both built food-tech companie[...]
Glyphosate, the world’s most used herbicide, has recently become a major issue for the U.S. food and supplement industry because of its residues in foods. The World Health Organiza[...]
Tyson Innovation Lab developed and launched its first brand,¡YAPPAH!, in just 6 months — which is unheard of when it comes to big brands. ¡YAPPAH! is a mission-driven snack[...]
As of mid-day, on Saturday, Pilotworks the shared kitchen provider that opened here in Chicago in May, and for which I worked last winter, announced its abrupt closure and shut dow[...]
Plant-based yogurt startup Lavva is way more than meets the eye. With just seven whole food ingredients and no stabilizers, the probiotic- and prebiotic-rich formula have set it [...]
There was a time, prior to the 20th century, when agricultural soil was rich, healthy and organically dense. Soil, in all of its regional variations, had always been a deeply compl[...]
Reconnecting Families With Their Food During our last semester of college, we became curious about a random fact we heard in a business ethics class: gourmet mushrooms could grow o[...]
At the 2018 Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City, thousands of attendees walked the aisles in search of the new products that will grace grocery store shelves in the comi[...]
On June 30th, 2018 The Future Market will be debuting a brand new, 3,600 sf Future Market pop-up exhibit at the Summer Fancy Food Show in NYC. Building on the success of the[...]
We are thrilled to partner with Ryan Williams to offer our first U.S. Branded Food Investment Report. A reformed banker, Ryan now leads finance and special projects for RISE Brewin[...]
Cannabis condiments, luxurious cellular agriculture and chickens raised alongside the Blockchain. These are just some of the latest themes that we at the Future Market explore in o[...]
As part of our How to Start a Career in Food series, we are sharing best practices from people who have transitioned from careers in other industries to food. There are so [...]
What a momentous day for the food tech community. Meal kit startup Blue Apron, which in just five years grew to $795 million in sales, launched its IPO today. It was a lackluster d[...]
This is a guest post by Gunnar Lovelace, Co-CEO of Thrive Market. Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods validates our core investment in developing a socially conscious business that[...]
Woah! Amazon is acquiring Whole Foods. Raise your hand if your jaw dropped at the news on Friday and all you could mutter was HOLY SHIT! ✋🏽 To help us make sense of the acquisitio[...]
This is a guest post by John Foraker, President of Annie’s, Inc. Right before the U.S. equity markets opened on Friday, June 16th my phone erupted with texts from nume[...]
This is a guest post by Bentley Hall, CEO of Good Eggs. This morning, I awoke to a flurry of push notifications, emails and text messages: Whole Foods had been bought by Amazon. Wo[...]