Food companies trying to understand how consumers feel about a new product have relied on surveys, focus groups, and sensory panels for decades. But according to Mario Ubiali, founder and CEO of ...

If you’ve ever stopped for food in a one-exit town along the freeway, there’s a good chance your choices primarily consisted of chips, beef jerky, and days-old sandwiches. But what if convenience ...

No matter who you talk to in the world of food or ag innovation, if you ask whether they know Rob Trice, chances are the answer will be yes. That’s only partly due to Rob’s seeming omnipresence at ...

For most people, the smart home is about convenience: lights that turn on automatically, thermostats that learn schedules, and voice assistants that respond to simple commands. But over the last ...

When The Spoon first wrote about Nuritas in 2021, the Dublin-born startup had just raised $45 million to scale its peptide discovery platform. At the time, the company was positioned […] Research ...

When The Spoon first wrote about Nuritas in 2021, the Dublin-born startup had just raised $45 million to scale its peptide discovery platform. At the time, the company was positioned as early entrant ...

It looks like British coffee chain and Coca-Cola subsidiary Costa Coffee has acquired Austin, TX-based coffee automation company, Briggo. We are still hunting down an official announcement, but the ...

Late last week, news broke that Zume, the company famous mostly for raising a whole bunch of money for its pizza robot & cook-on-the-road food trucks concept, had shut down. The company’s demise, ...

For the past half-decade, former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has been endeavoring to reimagine how restaurants operate by building a nationwide network of ghost kitchens under a business called ...

Appliance giant Whirlpool has let its entire Yummly team go. According to industry sources, the company recently laid off all the employees for the recipe and cooking app and website. These sources ...

AI-powered restaurant forecasting startup ClearCOGS has raised $3.8 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by Closed Loop Partners, with participation from Myriad Venture Partners and Hearst’s ...

Nearly two decades ago, Eliot Horowitz launched a company with a couple of cofounders that would be pivotal in the early days of big data, helping to create more scalable solutions, lower costs and ...