Every week we track the business, tech and investment trends in CPG, retail, restaurants, agriculture, cooking and health, so you don’t have to. Here are some of this week’s top he[...]
Every week we track the business, tech and investment trends in CPG, retail, restaurants, agriculture, cooking and health, so you don’t have to. Cash continues to pour into the CPG[...]
This is a guest post by Steve Lykken, President of Applegate. When news broke that Amazon was buying Whole Foods Market, in the words of Yogi Berra, it was like “déjà vu al[...]
This is a guest post by Scott Marlow, Executive Director of the Rural Advancement Foundation International – USA. Read Food+Tech Connect’s full coverage of the Whole Fo[...]
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 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[...]
In this guest post, Sir Kensington’s co-founder and CEO of Mark Ramadan writes about his decision to sell the condiment startup to Unilever for $140 million. _________[...]
February was an exceptionally lucrative month, with a reported $1.8B invested into the food tech sector through 19 acquisitions and 13 fundraises.[...]
More than $260 million was invested in food tech in November, with a heavy leaning towards ordering and delivery (particularly in the restaurant space).[...]
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).[...]
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[...]
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[...]
One theme that dominated food tech startup news throughout the month was the notion of same-day delivery and solving the problem of the last mile.[...]
Interoperability of data and systems are virtually non-existent when it comes to agriculture. But one company hopes to change that. On Wednesday, AgSquared, providers of cloud-base[...]
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[...]
There is an interesting race heating up in the payments and POS arena, with major players unveiling new solutions to own the register of the local merchant.[...]