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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
Infographics of the Week: What 7.68 Million Food Ratings Tell Us About Our Eating Habits
Massive Health visualizes their key findings about when, where, what and who people eat with
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
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.
Get Your Local Farm & Food Data: Local Dirt & Locavore Launch Widget & API
Local Dirt and Locavore recently launched a free search widget and API for their farm, farmers market and CSA mapping data. There are over 35,000 United States and Canad-based farms, farmers markets and CSAs in their combined databases, which you are now able to integrate into your own website or mobile app
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.
BrightFarms’ Business Model: How Tech & Efficiency Could Help Farmers & Consumers [Video]
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Food and agriculture know are low margin industries. Paul Lightfoot, Chief Executive Officer of BrightFarms, a company that designs, finances, builds and operates greenhouse farms at grocery retailers, is attempting to capitalize on what he sees as inefficiently produced fresh vegetables. And he recently secured a $4.3 million Series A equity financing round to do so
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
Food Meets Technology at TEDxManhattan Changing the Way We Eat
“Changing the way we eat” means a lot more than simply cutting fat and calories from our diets.
2011 Trends: Recipe Websites, Apps, & Publishing
home cooking experience is undergoing dramatic changes, in part thanks to the iPad, e-book readers and mobile phones. This trends report offers a detailed look at the world of recipes in 2011 and our predictions for what’s to come
Justin Massa on Hacking the Food System: Democratizing Data
This spirit of democratizing data is at the core of some of the most exciting things happening in the food tech space. From making healthier decisions to discovering deals to discovering dishes and recipes to assessing food safety, a slew of exciting startups are working to develop food data into engaging consumer applications – hacking the food system
Building a Marketplace: Zaarly Helps Source 20 lbs of Beef Cheek
There are a lot of important lessons about building a successful online marketplace that can be learned from our experience working with Zaarly to source 20 lbs of grass-fed beef cheek with only two days notice.
Bo Fishback on Hacking the Food System: It’s Different This Time
The difference is that today our technological progress is more focused on the flow on information as opposed to goods. It’s not about moving hard goods faster or centralizing operations for the sake of efficiency; it’s about sharing information faster and allowing even highly distributed people and sets of activities to work together efficiently
Will Forkly’s Tools Set Them Apart in Crowded Dish & Restaurnt Discovery Space?
The restaurant and dish discovery app space is getting crowded. In fact, I won’t write about another app unless it is powered by some innovative technology or employs interesting ways to acquire users and/or data. Which is exactly why I wanted to interview Forkly co-founder Brady Becker. Forkly is a mobile app that helps you
