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Former Airbnb Employees Launch Supper Club Discovery & Reservation Platform Gusta
Meet Carly Chamberlain, co-founder of Gusta, a new platform that aims to help supper clubs, pop-up restaurants, and artisan teachers connect with ‘foodies,’ manage events, and build a reputation through trusted reviews and professional photography
iTools: The iPhone Fab Four Free Apps for Urban Ag Enthusiasts and Local Eaters
I’m very excited about this week’s set of iPhone apps. With a tip of the hat to the Fab Five freshmen from the Michigan Wolverines back in the 90′s, I give you: the Fab Four free iPhone Apps for Urban Ag Enthusasts and Local Eaters. The apps reviewed below help you make better decisions about what kinds
Digital Platform Helps a Garden Grow in the South Bronx
Meet Ying Guo founder of Growing Gardens Growing Kids, a pilot project in the South Bronx aimed at teaching kids how to grow fresh produce. Ying is currently leveraging a customizable website and social media support provided to her by Pando Projects to bring her idea to fruition.
Startup Lessons: Learning To Code While Building Airbnb of Food
Non-technical startup founders often struggle to find technical co-founders. Entrepreneur Emil Petrone has a solution: quit your job, leave your home for two months, and teach yourself how to code, which is exactly what he did last July. Now he’s building Housefed, the Airbnb of Food. Housefed hopes to allow people to find home cooked meals anywhere
Eggzy: Using Tech To Build a Local & Transparent Egg Economy
Meet Sharleen and Mark Thompson, co-founders of Eggzy, a flock management platform for backyard chicken farmers that allows you to manage egg production, record expenses, calculate and project costs, and promote your flock. Through the “Egg Stands,” friends and neighbors are able to keep informed about egg availability, pricing, description of flocks, and other statistics. According to the site, they have tracked 74 flocks (956 hens in total) that have laid 2226 eggs over the last 30 days. They estimate that this could meet the daily protein requirements of 267 people
Greenling’s Vision For the Future of Grocery Shopping
Meet Mason Arnold, Co-founder and CEO of Greenling, the first and largest fresh, organic and local grocery delivery service in Central Texas. Greenling is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing local food systems: distribution. They use technology to shorten the supply chain and make it easier for consumers to access fresh, local produce through the delivery of CSA-style boxes
SXSWi Food+Tech Event- IdeaCOMM: Instant Data Evolves A Community
Join us in creating SXSW’s first-ever virtual farm-to-table community and feast on a new future of food. Sign up here to receive an invite. Want to have your startup featured at the event? We would love to invite yout to demo and pair your product with a chef who will use it to design the menu,
Eats & Apps: Building A Community of Food+Tech Lovers
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Grubwithus- Startup Brings People Offline To Make Connections Over Food
We go online for restaurant recommendations, recipes, dating, networking, and finding activity or interest groups, among other things. As our world becomes increasingly social, a growing number of startups are attempting to bridge the divide between digital and real life interactions. Sites such as Meetup.com have been extremely successful in leveraging technology as a tool
Real Time Farms Launches More Robust Food Information Platform
“We also think that if people feel they can use the data for other purposes besides viewing it on Real Time Farms, they’ll be more likely to want to participate. It’s a win-win.” – Real Time Farms Real Time Farms is a web platform that uses crowdsourcing to help you “connect the dots of your food
EATS+APPS: Feast on Food Apps During Social Media Week 2011
Food+Tech Connect is dedicated to building community for the growing food and tech sector- both online and off. I am thrilled to be working with Emily Cavalier of Mouth of The Border and Brian Quinn and Jonny Cigar of Noble Rot to bring the community together on next Tuesday, February 8, for an evening of great apps,
Yummly CEO David Feller On Food Data & Semantic Recipe Search
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily and quickly find the exact recipe you want, based on your personal health profile and preferences? Yummly CEO and Founder David Feller thinks so. Back in 2009, Feller recognized an opportunity to leverage recommendation engine technology to create a more intelligent recipe search engine, similar to Amazon
RecipeRelay: Using the Web to Socialize & Customize Cooking
Everyday, food lovers from all over the world log on to the web in search of recipes. A growing number of sites, such as Food52 and Gourmet Live, are helping to democratize, personalize , and socialize the cooking experience (click here for a more complete of social recipe sites). RecipeRelay is an interesting social recipe venture
8 Simple Steps to Hackathon Epiphany
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment. Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along. With 12 days of lead time, a $100 budget from Gojee, and big aspirations, I joined Danielle Gould (founder of Food+tech Connect), Marc Alt (CEO of Opensourcecities),
Food Sprout: Mapping The Food Supply Chain
Where does your food come from? The answer is more difficult than you might imagine. Thankfully, a growing number of tech savvy entrepreneurs are leveraging their Web2.0 acumen and the open government data movement to address the problem. Food Sprout is a new, data-driven website that is mapping the food supply chain to improve transparency about
