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VCs have growing appetite for “AgriFood”

sudshr47 March 7, 2019

Venture investors are pouring billions of dollars into feeding their hunger for food and agriculture startups. Whether that trend line is due to enthusiasm for the sector or just broader heavy investing in the VC space is much less clear. According to a recent report published by AgFunder – a VC and investing marketplace focused […]

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Square Roots will expand across North America through new partnership

sudshr47 March 6, 2019

Farming incubator Square Roots is announcing a new partnership today with food distribution giant Gordon Food Service. Square Roots has built urban farming facilities in refurbished, climate-controlled shipping containers, which it uses to grow food and train farmers in a yearlong program. Until now, it’s operated out of a single location in Brooklyn, which meant […]

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Food delivered to the doorstep is not so cheap in China anymore

sudshr47 March 6, 2019

A big selling point of ordering food to the doorstep in China is price, which, in the early years, could be much cheaper than eating in-house. That’s arguably indulged a demographic of lazy, indoorsy eaters, but that may not last for much longer. Over the past few months, users in China have noticed incremental price […]

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The shift to collaborative robots means the rise of robotics as a service

sudshr47 March 3, 2019

The 2018 Holiday shopping season was the biggest on record for e-commerce, with nearly $126 billion in online sales. But as e-commerce continues to expand, the demand for warehouse workers is growing faster than the labor supply and creating an increased need for automation. Given its dominance in e-commerce and the massive scale of its business, there’s no surprise […]

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Go-Jek’s Get app officially launches in Thailand as Southeast Asia expansion continues

sudshr47 February 28, 2019

Go-Jek is extending its reach in Southeast Asia after its Thailand-based unit made its official launch, which included the addition of a new food delivery service. Get, which is the name for Go-Jek business in Thailand, started out last year offering motorbike taxi on-demand services to a limited part of Thai capital city Bangkok, now […]

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Presto raises $30M to bring its AI platform and tabletop ordering hardware to restaurant chains

sudshr47 February 27, 2019

The “restaurant of the future” may elicit thoughts of a chrome diner with robot servers and an otherwise hefty amount of Tokyo futurist kitsch, but the fact is that the forthcoming sit-down dining experience may just end up looking a lot like ordering from a takeout app. Presto is working with restaurants to update the […]

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Love bread more than Oprah? Save $24 on this Hamilton Beach bread machine that’s on sale at Walmart.

sudshr47 February 27, 2019

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Do you ever linger a little longer than necessary when you pass a bakery? The smell of freshly baked bread can be dangerously enticing. But don’t spend all your dough (pun intended) buying bread when you can make it yourself at home.

The HomeBaker Bread Machine by Hamilton Beach gives you the tools you need to make freshly baked loaves to your heart’s desire and it’s on sale for $45.99 at Walmart. You could literally eat bread every day — just like Oprah!

Bread making is made simple with the HomeBaker; even if you’ve never made bread before in your life, you’ll be able to with this machine. Just add ingredients, select your desired cycle, and press start. The appliance does most of the work for you. It yields up to a two-pound loaf. Read more…

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The 9 best air fryers in the UK: Make fried food without all the guilt

sudshr47 February 27, 2019

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We’re calling it now: Air fryers are the Instant Pot of 2019. 

We’re always on the lookout for new kitchen gadgets that will make cooking easier and more fun — so it would be an understatement to say we were pumped when we first heard claims of a kitchen appliance that can make our favourite greasy foods less unhealthy, all with speeds similar to an Instant Pot. Air fryers started popping into the mainstream eye in the spring of 2017, and now that they’ve had their chance to marinate in the market (food pun intended), it feels like an appropriate time to compare the best ones.

If you thought you were overwhelmed with all of the different Instant Pot models, just wait until you see the air fryer market. Read more…

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With $90 million in funding, the Ginkgo spinoff Motif joins the fight for the future of food

sudshr47 February 26, 2019

Continuing its quest to become the Amazon Web Services for biomanufacturing, Ginkgo Bioworks has launched a new spinoff called Motif Ingredients with $90 million in funding to develop proteins that can serve as meat and dairy replacements. It’s the second spinout for Ginkgo since late 2017 when the company partnered with Bayer to launch Joyn […]

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A Chinese company is GPS-tracking your chicken to ensure they’re healthy and organic

sudshr47 February 24, 2019

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Your future chicken dinner is about to get its very own Fitbit-like device.

Chinese online insurance company ZhongAn Online has developed a new GPS tracker for poultry called GoGo Chicken, according to the Wall Street Journal. The device fits around the animal’s leg while sensors monitor information like the chicken’s environment, what it eats, and how much exercise it gets.

ZhongAn refers to the product as “blockchain farming” because it utilizes the real-time public record technology popularized by cryptocurrency to store its data on the chickens. Read more…

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