The Future of Food Technology Delivered Weekly
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. I’ve been staring at the food tech headlines this week, and something’s changed. For most of 2025 the money was quiet — rounds shrunk, valuations got clipped, and “down round” became the industry’s least favourite phrase. Then Wonder walks in with $650 million and a $9 billion price…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. I was going to start this by telling you about a $9 billion food-tech valuation, a billion-dollar bet on a longevity drink, and precision fermentation finally breaking out of the lab. But here’s the thing that actually stopped me mid-scroll this morning: the most interesting story isn’t the…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. I noticed the Wonder’s IPO framing — let me give my insite. Something feels different about this week in food tech. Maybe it’s the sheer velocity of it all — or maybe it’s the uncomfortable sense that the industry’s two slowest-moving worlds just collided and nobody was really…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Here’s a number I can’t stop thinking about: roughly one in eight American adults is now on a GLP-1 drug. That’s not a wellness trend. That’s a structural shock to the food system, the kind that quietly reshapes commodity flows, feedlot economics, and what ends up on…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Wait — did cultivated meat just become a real estate play? Because reading this morning’s headlines, that’s genuinely what it looks like. In the last 48 hours, the food tech world has done something I didn’t expect: it’s started behaving like a normal industry. A battered, post-hype, ruthlessly…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Here’s a question I keep coming back to: when did the food industry quietly become one of the most interesting places to watch technology reshape an entire category? Because somewhere between last night’s news cycle and this morning’s, the answer stopped being theoretical. Over the past 48…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Here’s the strange thing about this week in food tech: the most futuristic ingredient discovery and the most old-school restaurant collapse happened within 48 hours of each other. A London lab is teaching AI to “taste” by watching how a drop of liquid vibrates against a surface —…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. There’s a strange kind of symmetry in this week’s news — and I can’t stop thinking about it. On the same morning the USDA pledged $60 million to small meat and poultry processors, Beyond Meat quietly announced it was dropping “Meat” from its name. A Nebraska startup closed…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Something strange is happening in the protein aisle. As whey prices spike 40% and food companies scramble to reformulate, the same week delivers two milestone announcements that feel like they belong to different industries entirely. One sector is cutting jobs and retreating. The other is launching products and…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Here’s something I keep coming back to: the food tech industry spent years chasing a single promise—that alternative proteins could hit cost parity with conventional meat and flip the entire industry on its head. That promise is still alive. But the path there has gotten a lot more…