The Future of Food Technology Delivered Weekly
FMI and The Hartman Group’s 2026 shopper study finds most Americans still prefer to buy groceries in person, while digital tools now shape the trip before, during and after the store visit.
Kalanick’s $1.7B robotics venture names food as a target vertical, and the hedge is the new strategy. Look at what crossed my desk this morning. A DC startup helping Barilla and CAVA predict formulations before they hit the lab. A Hungarian company turning surplus into granola on actual retail shelves. An Israeli firm growing casein…
Aleph Farms cleared cultivated beef through Singapore—not Silicon Valley—as the only company on Earth licensed to sell it. Watch what happens to the categories. Aleph Farms just became the only company on the planet cleared to sell cultivated beef — but they did it through Singapore, not Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, a 2024-era plant-based lamb maker…
A snapshot of the food tech stories that mattered today. There’s a particular kind of optimism that creeps in when you’ve watched a sector long enough to know its cycles. For the better part of two years, the food tech conversation has been quietly correcting its own hype — scaling back promises, retreating from “next…
A snapshot of the food tech stories that mattered today. Here’s what struck me: six developments, six completely different corners of the industry, and they all point the same direction. Aleph Farms just cleared Singapore’s regulator for cultivated beef — making it the only company on earth authorised to sell lab-grown meat in two jurisdictions….
A snapshot of the food tech stories that mattered today. Have you noticed something odd lately? The most interesting bets in food aren’t being placed on the plate — they’re being placed upstream, at the molecular level, in the regulatory filing, in the field. The flash has moved out of the consumer product and into…
Wonder’s $650M Series D lands at a $9B valuation as plant-based capital quietly pivots toward infrastructure over brands. There’s a moment every food-tech watcher knows: you’re scanning the funding rounds, the acquisitions, the quiet press releases—and suddenly you realise the whole field has shifted beneath you while you weren’t looking. That happened to me this…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. The most ambitious bets of the past week aren’t coming from the places we’ve been trained to watch. Not Silicon Valley. Not the usual European hubs. Singapore just authorised the world’s second-ever cultivated beef clearance — and only the second jurisdiction on Earth to do so. A Spanish…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. There’s something odd happening in food tech right now. The companies making the boldest bets aren’t the disruptors — they’re the incumbents. A dairy giant just backed a startup that wants to make milk without cows. The most significant cultivated meat milestone in the sector’s history came not…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. The most telling moment in food tech this week wasn’t a flashy funding round or a lab-grown breakthrough. It was a quiet £5.4 million acquisition — and who was missing from it. Hilton Food Group, one of Europe’s largest meat processors, just sold its private-label vegan business to…