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43North winner SomaDetect gets big boost from Dairy Farmers of America
SomaDetect, the 43North winner that makes sensor equipment for dairy farmers, is getting a financial boost from the diary industry’s biggest dairy processors.
read morePulp Addiction: Pulp Pantry Upcycles Juicing Remnants into Sweet and Savory Snacks
If you’ve ever tried your hand at home juicing — or watched a local spot make you juice to order — you probably noticed that a lot of pulp gets left behind. Some larger juiceries have partners that can take the pulp to use for animal feed or compost, but many smaller juiceries end up just throwing it away since they don’t have the resources to get it to farmers.
read moreSomaDetect comes out on top at FoodBytes! NYC, scores DFA backing
Another FoodBytes! competition took place in NYC last week, giving 19 food and agriculture startups the opportunity to pitch their innovations to investors. AI dairy company SomaDetect took home the top prize: Judges’ Choice Award.
read moreBuffalo-based SomaDetect pulls in investment from Dairy Farmers of America
As strategic investors go, it doesn’t get much better than this. Buffalo-based SomaDetect has received an investment from the Dairy Farmers of America, a farmer-owned dairy cooperative based in Kansas City, Kanas, that serves more than 14,500 family farmers. Earlier this year, SomaDetect participated in the Kansas City, Missouri-based Sprint Accelerator, of which DFA is a sponsor.
read moreChickpea protein could disrupt the alternative protein space: Innovopro
Innovopro has developed a patented method to process chickpea protein that, chief executive Taly Nechushtan says, means the company can offer a highly functional alternative to the alt proteins currently dominating the market.
read moreOddBox on delivering cheap, ethical produce and combatting food waste: ‘You don’t have to choose between your conscience and your wallet’
UK food tech start-up OddBox is on a mission to tackle food waste. Along the way, the company wants to build farmer incomes while providing consumers with cheap, fresh, healthy produce delivered to their doors. We caught up with founders Emilie Vanpoperinghe and Deepak Ravindran to find out more.
read moreCroissance en accéléré pour Evive
En quelques semaines, les ventes de la jeune entreprise de la Montérégie ont augmenté de 800 %
read moreWhy should food businesses care about waste?
We speak to Abi Ramanan of Impact Vision to find out why and how food businesses should get involved in the anti-food waste mission
read moreTech Pitch: ImpactVision
The co-founder of the start-up transforming food inspection offers a quick glimpse into tech innovation, investment, and involvement with Rabobank’s FoodBytes! competition
read moreUne start-up montréalaise à la rescousse des abeilles
L’entreprise Nectar mise sur l’intelligence artificielle et sur des capteurs installés à l’intérieur des ruches pour donner une voix aux abeilles… et favoriser ainsi leur survie. Maxime Johnson nous en dit plus.
read moreUne réinvention santé pour les petits déjeuners
La start-up Oatbox a obtenu plus de 1,5 M$ auprès d’investisseurs québécois
read moreDairy-related Companies among FoodBytes! Top 20 Startups
FoodBytes! by Rabobank has announced the startups that will take the stage at FoodBytes! Montreal, a food and agriculture pitch competition-meets-networking platform.
read moreApp maker wants to help grocers around the world cut down on rotting food
Flashfood Inc. is a Toronto-based startup that aspires to become an international online broker for grocers to better manage marked-down food they would otherwise throw away
read moreAmazon Whole Foods: The Biggest Food Tech Story of 2017 [podcast]
The Amazon purchase of Whole Foods has dominated headlines since the merger was announced in June of 2017. What’s the impact of the merger on our food lives and on companies doing business in the retail e-commerce grocery space?
read moreUnilever teams with big banks on blockchain for supply chain
Over the summer, more than a dozen food companies and retailers — including Walmart, Nestle and Tyson Foods, and motivated by tech giant IBM — formed a consortium dedicated to using blockchain technology to gather better information on the origin and state of food.
read moreVoice Recording Tool Understands Agri-Speak, Knows How To Use It
The innovative product behind this revolutionary capability is called AgVoice, defined as “a hands-free workflow management service that helps ag professionals capture insights while on the move.”
read moreBiotech startup Sugarlogix shows not all sugar is bad – some offer functional benefits people need
As sugar continues to gain prominence as public enemy No. 1 in America for contributing to obesity and other chronic health problems, Berkeley-based biotech startup Sugarlogix has taken on the daunting task of teaching manufacturers and consumers that not all sugar is bad.
read moreSugarlogix is Manufacturing the Best Components of Human Breast Milk from Sugar
Sugarlogix is a biotech startup based in Berkeley, CA attempting to distill some of the most prized nutritional qualities of human breast milk from simple table sugar. The company is looking to improve infant formula with a particular milk sugar that has no flavor, but enhances the immune system, promotes gut health, and reduces inflammation. Sugarlogix co-founder and CEO Kulika Chomvong pitched the company at FoodBytes! Austin last month and won the People’s Choice award. Before pitching at FoodBytes!, Sugarlogix was part of biotech accelerator IndieBio’s Spring 2017 cohort.
read moreBrands find new flavor opportunities with seaweed
Can briny, salty seaweed be the next hot superfood? Here’s how companies are making seaweed more palatable to U.S. consumers.
read moreBeyond the Shoreline prepares for January 2018 launch of kelp jerky
Bored of beef jerky? New York City-based start-up Beyond the Shoreline has an intriguing alternative: a plant-based mix of sugar kelp, mushroom stems, nutritional yeast, brown rice flour, sea salt and pea protein, which is due to hit the market in January 2018.
read moreAsk Addie: What is coffee flour and how do I use it?
This company dries out the fruit, or cherry, of the coffee plant and then they turn it into a powder that’s a mix between a flour and a spice. This fruit has nearly as much antioxidants as blueberries, and it also has some fiber and other good-for-you-nutrients.
read moreReal Oyster Cult takes the intimidation and safety risks out of oysters with front door delivery
The mail order oyster company Real Oyster Cult launched last May out of equal parts desire to deliver to consumers the freshest tasting oyster experience and a need to address food safety risks that threaten public health and commercial viability of shellfish farms.
read moreThe ready meal category is ripe for growth and likely will pull consumers from meal kits and frozen
The ready meal category in the US is set to explode in part as a natural evolution of the meal kit craze that taught consumers how to cook healthy, fresh food at home, but which still ultimately takes more time than many people have daily, according to one entrepreneur.
read moreFood Industry Leaders Take a Full-Systems Approach at Mixing Bowl Hub in Silicon Valley
Yesterday, food tech and agtech startups, along with investors, nonprofits, and other stakeholders, met up in Mountain View, CA to discuss how downstream consumer decisions affect upstream food decisions and the reverse.
read moreSolving the world’s food crisis one pitch at a time [podcast]
Rabobank is leading the charge in trying to solve four dimensions of global food security (avalbilty, access, nutrition and stability) by leading the search for the most innovative food and ag tech start-ups. The FoodBytes! pitch competition puts game-changing startups together with investors and industry leaders to pioneering a better future. In-studio guests: Paula Savanti of Rabobank, Mike Annunziata CEO/Co-Founder of Natural Cuts, and Bruce Rasa CEO of AgVoice, the Judges’ Choice Winner.
read moreRabobank event spotlights food safety, ag data software
Impact Vision and Ag Voice took home the people’s and judge’s choice awards, respectively, at Rabobank’s Food Bytes conference in New York.
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