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Our round-up of this week's top food innovation news.
Exploring the Future of Food at Summer Fancy Food 2018 (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=3485eb3da3&e=2715c96b29)
An inside look at the Future Market pop-up exhibit at the Fancy Food Show, which featured 31 concept food products built into a personalized digital shopping interface that suggested how and what you may be buying in the grocery store of the future.
2017 US Food & Beverage Startup Investment Report (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=90489855dd&e=2715c96b29)
Introducing our first annual Food & Bev Startup Investment Report by Ryan Williams. There were $1.08b in venture capital investments across 99 deals in 2017. Check out our report for a deep dive into the deals and trends.
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Head of Partnerships/Sales at PLANATARIANS (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=d22a7cb4c9&e=2715c96b29) - Bay Area, Boulder, Minneapolis
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The Founders of Baby Food Startup Yumi Dish How to Get Funding When You're Pregnant (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=60ce033ec2&e=2715c96b29) - Moneyish
An inside look at starting a business and raising capital while pregnant.
Sensient Technologies Acquires Mazza Innovation Addressing Growing Demand For Clean-Label Ingredients (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=a1f6648548&e=2715c96b29) - Food Navigator
Sensient Technologies has acquired Mazza Innovation Limited, a botanical extraction technology firm based in Vancouver, Canada, strengthening its "seed to shelf" business strategy to innovate across the value chain for natural and organic ingredients.
How Start-ups Are Positioning Healthy Food to Make 'A Lot of Business Sense' (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=2708576291&e=2715c96b29) - CNBC
Healthy food alternatives such as meat substitutes and healthy carbohydrates are a growing area for investment in Asia.
Product Innovation Central to General Mills' Growth Plans (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=bacf1fb64f&e=2715c96b29) - Food Business News
The company will focus on product innovations to drive growth. It will also divest businesses that make up 5% of total sales.
A New England Food Incubator Launches An App To Further Boost The Local Food Scene (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=c441624ca7&e=2715c96b29) - Forbes
Rhode Island-based Hope & Main launched an app that makes it easier for customers to buy products from its startups.
- Food Navigator
Plant-based proteins are hot property, but organoleptic and functional challenges continue to hold the market back, claims Virginia-based Nutriati, which says its new chickpea protein concentrates can open up new application opportunities and give soy, pea and rice a serious run for their money.
Private Label
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Private Label Sales Dip For Grocers as Other Channels Threaten (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=c38f6c3108&e=2715c96b29) - Food Dive
Private brand performance across retail dramatically increased last year, posting sales of $138 billion in the U.S. Grocers took in $68b, a .1% decline compared to the prior year.
Blue Apron Makes a Comeback But the Street Isn't Ready to Eat (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=9a09c9e795&e=2715c96b29) - Bloomberg
Shares of the subscription meal kit company have more than doubled since hitting a record low in April, and reached a five-month intraday high on Friday.
Israel: Trigo Offers Shoppers a Checkout-Free Experience Like Amazon Go (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=73542c1615&e=2715c96b29) - VentureBeat
The computer vision startup aims to bring checkout-less experiences to existing brick-and-mortar stores. It emerged from stealth last week with $7 million in seed funding from Hetz Ventures and Vertex Ventures Israel.
Kroger Rolls Out App to Spur Healthier Grocery Shopping (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=f891da22c0&e=2715c96b29) - Supermarket News
Called OptUP, the free app provides users with a score indicating a product's nutritional and/or health attributes to help consumers make better-for-you purchase decisions.
Albertsons Showcases Organic Brands in New Instacart E-Store (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=dca61c66a1&e=2715c96b29) - Supermarket News
Called O Organics Market, the Instacart-powered e-store is designed to make it easier for customers to find and purchase organic, natural and other better-for-you food, beverages and groceries.
How Seafood Can Transform Stores Into Social Hubs (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=f84e5f9cf7&e=2715c96b29) - Insight Grocery Business
Retailers are awash in opportunities to expand their role in the people business that serves groceries
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McDonald's Pulls Salads From Thousands of Restaurants as Parasite Outbreak Escalates (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=8436b2cba8&e=2715c96b29) - Fortune
McDonalds has stopped serving salads at 3,000 restaurants in 14 states following reports linking the dishes to an outbreak of intestinal parasites.
The Rise of The RoboChef (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=e6ffdaaf1c&e=2715c96b29) - The Economist
CREATOR, a new hamburger joint in San Francisco, claims to deliver a burger worth $18 for $6—in other words, to provide the quality associated with posh restaurants at a fast-food price thanks to its robochef.
Thailand: Restaurant Booking Startup Eatigo Chows Down ~$10M More From TripAdvisor (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=184f3074c2&e=2715c96b29) - TechCrunch
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the round takes Eating's funding to over $25m.
Uber Now Lets You Pay For Rides and Food Via Venmo (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=cbecf4fad7&e=2715c96b29) - TechCrunch
According to the companies, more than 6m payments mentioned Uber in the last year. The integration will also enable people to easily split the cost of food orders and rides with friends within the Uber app.
Mosa Meat
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Startup Producing Cell-Grown Meat Raises New Funding (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=86470f9ec5&e=2715c96b29) - The Wall Street Journal
Mosa Meat raised $8.8m from German drugmaker Merck KGaA and top European meat processor Bell Food Group.
US Food Regulators Are Fighting Over Who Gets to Oversee Cell-Cultured Meat (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=036f64b3ea&e=2715c96b29) - Quartz
There's a turf war unfolding between the USDA and the FDA.
What is Meat, Anyway? Lab-Grown Food Sets Off a Debate (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=6bfb6eaa3f&e=2715c96b29) - Wired
What may on the surface seem like a silly semantic squabble does indeed have big implications, for safety, for regulation, and for consumers in general.
Nutrien Acquires Agrible for $63m to "Create Ag Retailer of the Future" (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=5269db3aa9&e=2715c96b29) - AgFunder
Nutrien, the world's largest fertilizer and ag retail business, has acquired Agrible, a startup offering a suite of decision support software tools for farmers as well as sustainability tracking for food brands.
This Company Pioneered a New Business Structure to Preserve Its Mission (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=beb9ff55ac&e=2715c96b29) - Fast Company
A purpose trust means that Organically Grown Company, an organic produce distributor, is the first company in the U.S. to use something called purpose trust law to restructure itself to maintain its social and environmental mission as it grows.
The Farm Group That's Part of Rural America's Crisis (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=33bb036f2a&e=2715c96b29) - Civil Eats
With a massive budget from its insurance activities and its policy emphasis on industrial-scale farming, the Iowa Farm Bureau isn't helping rural communities.
To Feed the World Sustainably, Repair the Soil (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=7136825e63&e=2715c96b29) - Scientific American
A reconceived farming system can rapidly improve fertility without chemical fertilizers, and without sacrificing crop yields.
Microbiome
EATERS
Microbiome Start-up Nextbiotix Nets €7m to Address Gut-Related Disorders (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=5505bee1df&e=2715c96b29) - NutraIngredients
French-based biotech start-up Nextbiotix has successfully raised €7m in a Series A financing round to develop microbiome-based approaches that address inflammatory bowel disease. Investors include Auriga Partners, Sofimac Innovation Innovation and more.
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