There are many citizens, restaurants, bars, retail shops and farmers in need of everything from clothes, food and technical assistance to financial support, help cleaning up and hu[...]
New high-tech prototypes offer a window into the future of shopping and cooking. Here are two shopping and cooking innovations that might get you imaging the day when you checkout [...]
Earlier this year, corporate food giants Kraft and Nestlé Australia opened up their recipe and ingredient data to developers and consumers. While these are just first steps, we hop[...]
Coming out of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco was this gem of a video featuring TechCrunch and CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington interviewing the “legen[...]
On Wednesday night, the food+tech community packed into 4Food for the latest Meetup where the theme was the business of food e-commerce. There were over 140 people in attendance! T[...]
Amidst a growing debate over the labeling of food made with ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms (GMO), Fooducate released a new feature this week that helps gro[...]
Partnerships can instantly boost a companies reach or offerings. In the food+tech space, we’re seeing a number of relevant couplings. OpenMenu and FoodTracker OpenMenu’s part[...]
Last Saturday, a carefully curated group of developers and hackers gathered at Pivotal Labs for Ordr.in’s daylong HackFood event. The theme was food. The plan was to hack. And that[...]
Is the future of food brand advertising and recipe website monetization "native advertising"? Yummly thinks so. Today, the semantic recipe website launched what appears to be the f[...]
Working with the likes of Square, Dropbox and Yelp, Cater2me's office catering service makes it easy for companies to enjoy local, conversation-provoking foods from the best food t[...]
The USAID recently held a hackathon focused on improving food security in developing nations. Many of the projects exhibited innovative uses of data, technology and mapping in orde[...]
A number of startups are linking farmers and eaters directly but most don’t focus on meat. But Chicago-based Red Meat Market, which connects local ranchers directly with consumers [...]
We have been following accelerator programs popping up around the country and became particularly interested with the ARK challenge, which launched its inaugural class in August an[...]
There has been an explosion in new resources and technologies for local and regional food systems. The folks over at Food Hub recently launched an interactive graphic to hel[...]
Craft Coffee is a monthly subscription service that delivers, well, craft coffee right to your door. They recently launched a fundraising campaign to expand the business and, in pa[...]
Ever go out to eat, have a delicious ethnic meal, and leave thinking you’ll never know how it’s made? Global Kitchen is a new startup that might have something for you. Laun[...]
The New York Public Library has one of the largest collections of historical restaurant menus in the world—around 45,000 in total. The NYPL makes the data available via CSV and an [...]
TangoTab is a deal maker with a conscious. Unlike other services like Groupon and Living Social, it has a socially responsible angle – it donates a meal for every coupon you use – [...]
Food Genius' business model has evolved, helping them land $1.2 million in funding and a partnership with GrubHub to launch Food Genius Reports, a restaurant trends dashboard for [...]
The rise of subscription-based commerce startups gives more people the option to try new products. One such company, serving those with food allergies, is Savorfull.[...]
Door to Door Organics recently received a $2 million, Series A investment. The equity investment was made by Greenmont Capital, which focuses on early-stage companies.[...]
Locu is a local-data company that began by helping restaurants digitize and share their menus. With its new API, it has a chance to become the backbone of applications that help us[...]