Archive for Category: "Startups"
Zokos Aims to Feed Hunger for Real Life Interaction
Zokos is a new startup that aims to make it easier for people to connect in real life – over food- by reducing what they have identified as the “barriers to entertaining.” Last week, the Brooklyn-based startup launched their first tool, a platform designed to help hosts manage an event and share the costs with their guests
What Condé Nast’s Ziplist Acquisition Means for the Startup’s 6.5K “Partners”
What publisher Condé Nast has acquisition of Ziplist means for the future of their existing 6,500 food partner websites and blogs.
Innovator Video: Siansplan.com Aims to Simplify Meal Planning & Reduce Food Waste
Siansplan.com is a new a new meal planning tool designed to help families make cooking and shopping easy, fun and more efficient
Building Food Apps: The Importance of a Data Framework
While there are several ways technology can be leveraged to package information about food products and transform it into helpful information for consumers, a main component of any solution must begin with a strong, malleable framework for structuring and storing the data.
ScanAvert: The Future of Shopping with Dietary Restrictions
ScanAvert, a mobile application that helps consumers with dietary restrictions to choose safe groceries is much more than a mobile grocery advisor, allowing users to find and track their purchases based on their manageable disease or condition.
Yummly’s Billion Dollar Digital Kitchen Platform
Armed with a dream investment team, and $6 million in Series A Funding, semantic recipe website Yummly is getting ready to build the world’s first ‘digital kitchen platform.’
Innovator Video: Cerealize Looks to Disrupt the Cereal Industry
Cerealize, a new subscription website that allows consumers to design custom blended, organic breakfast cereal and have a box of it shipped to their home, took first prize for this year’s Startup Bus competition. Cerealize peaked my interest for a couple of reasons, most significantly for their fun and easy approach to tackling industry consolidation.
Food Rules for Startups: 8 Ways to Build Better Company Culture
Often startups try to attract talented teammates by offering benefits like ping-pong tables, video games, or gym memberships. While those things are valuable, a culture of good food is an order of magnitude more important. Sharing meals around quality food builds an environment that encourages collaboration and celebrates excellence.
Surveys of Chefs and Consumers Find Technology Use, But More Info is Needed [Survey]
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Two interesting surveys about technology use in restaurants predict trends for 2012. But the specifics of those trends seem to be lacking, and to find out more, Food+Tech Connect has created a quick survey.
AgLocal Bringing Power to the Meat Lover
One of eight SXSW’s Interactive Accelerator Finalists in the Innovative Web Technologies category announced today, AgLocal aims to use technology to empower carnivores to buy meat locally
Supermarket API Could Save Companies $100K+ Annually
Any company building apps or platforms to improve the consumer shopping experience knows that grocery product data is EXPENSIVE, costing $100,000+ annually to license. This data is often poorly structured and out of date, forcing those who purchase it to spend significant resources cleaning and restructuring it. Now, AisleFinder, a mobile app and website that helps consumers create a shopping list and identify their location in their local supermarket, is making that data available for free via their Supermarket
Agriculture and Climate Change: Can Technology Help?
Several new initiatives have boasted high tech help for farmers in the face of climate change. But what do we currently know about how global warming will affect agriculture and can technology help
2012 Food Trends Get Technical
Speculation on 2012′s food trends are everywhere, from the newest “ethnic flavors” to the next super berry. But more interesting are the ways experts see technology playing a role in the food industry and how it will help consumers in the marketplace. Over the past few weeks, Food+Tech Connect analyzed three important food+tech trends of
Infographic of the Week: In Caffeine We Trust [Infographic]
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What could be more crowd pleasing than an infographic about coffee? How about an interactive visualization that allows coffee drinkers to chart their own caffeine use and preferences
Evernote Food Allows Users to Document Recipes and Restaurants
Evernote, the app that helps people “remember everything,” recently launched Evernote Food to help people record their food experiences.
