| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.02.2020 | Blue Apron explores a sale… but who’s buying? | Right now, Blue Apron’s options aren’t great, said Sean Butler, who formerly held senior positions at meal kit brands Purple Carrot and Chef’d and is now managing director at consumer products supply chain consultancy LIDD.
“The company ... |
| 21.09.2017 | Meal Kit Delivery Startup Plated Joins Forces With National Grocery Chain | Customers at Shaw’s and Safeway will soon be able to buy Plated meals like this one. Plated
Meal kit delivery services are going mainstream.
Albertsons Companies, which owns over 2,200 grocery stores in 35 states, has acquired prepared meal... |
| 20.09.2017 | Plated teams up with Albertsons in bid to become 'the first omnichannel meal kit offering with national scale' | Under the deal, which is likely to close later this month, New York-based Plated will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Boise, Idado-based Albertsons, with its own leadership team led by CEO Josh Hix, who co-founded the business in ... |
| 14.06.2017 | Bowery Farming Raises $20m Series A to Hire and Expand | New Jersey-based indoor farming company Bowery Farming has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by General Catalyst and GGV Capital, with additional investment from GV (Google Ventures), taking Bowery’s total fundrai... |
| 16.04.2017 | The winner of the meal kit market won’t be a meal kit company at all | When they started operating in the U.S. about five years ago, meal kit companies looked big, disruptor-sized, poised to transform the way people eat entirely. They were even seen as a potential thorn in the side of the massive U.S. grocery ... |
| 23.05.2016 | Sun Basket raises $11.6M for organic food delivery | Focusing on organic and sustainable, new startup takes aim at well-funded Blue Apron and HelloFresh
I’m beginning to see the food tech sector like the restaurant business. Entrepreneurs will always try their hand at it, even if success has ... |
| 05.05.2016 | New York’s ff Venture Capital has raised a new, $54 million fund | New York-based venture firm ff Venture Capital, has raised $53.8 million for its fourth seed-stage venture fund, according to an SEC filing that shows fundraising began in the fall of 2014.
The firm had closed its third seed-stage fund fund... |
| 03.12.2015 | DJI Launches Agriculture Drone, COP21 Encourages Agricultural Commitments, FDA Approves GMO Salmon, Arlon Leads Sugar M&A, more | Welcome to the first December edition of AgFundersNews’ weekly digest.
Drones for agriculture took a new turn this week after Chinese drone company DJI, which is arguably the world’s largest, unveiled its first drone targeting the agricultu... |
| 13.11.2015 | Deliv Acquires Delivery Startup Zipments, Expands National Footprint | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, Bay Area-based Deliv announced it has acquired Zipments, the same-day delivery and crowdsourced courier startup based in Grand Rapids, MI, and operating primarily i... |
| 05.11.2015 | Hunger Games: How “Culinary Currency” is reshaping the food industry | This sponsored post is produced in association with Panasonic Lab 1.0.
Millennials are hungry — not just for inspired meals, but for the connection they represent, says Eve Turow, author of A Taste of Generation Yum. And while half of the 8... |
| 03.11.2015 | Gobble Raises $10m in Series A Round with Trinity Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz | Food e-commerce company Gobble has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Trinity Ventures.
Andreessen Horowitz, NYC angel firm Initialized Capital, global firm Fenox VC, Trinity Ventures’ Entrepreneur in Residence Anjula Acharia Bat... |
| 26.10.2015 | Sun Basket poised for growth in burgeoning meal-kit-delivery market | “We started testing the concept earlier this year and we’ve just had a phenomenal response and amazing growth. Yes, there are a lot of players entering this market and a lot of interest [from investors], but we think there are going to be ... |
| 22.07.2015 | Home-cooked Meal Kit Delivery Company Serves Up $35m Series B | Food delivery services are continuing to capture the attention of the venture capital community after home cooking meal kit delivery service Plated closed a $35 million Series B round last week. Existing investors Formation 8 and Greycroft ... |
| 16.07.2015 | Plated Is Served $35 Million In Series B | Plated, the NY-based company that delivers pre-portioned ingredients and recipes at your door each week, has today announced the close of a $35 million Series B round. Existing investors Greycroft Partners and Formation 8 participated in th... |
| 16.07.2015 | Plated Raises $35M in Series B Funding | Plated, a NY-based cook-at-home meal service, raised $35m in Series B funding.
Backers included existing investors Greycroft Partners and Formation 8.
The company intends to use the funds for the development of a low-waste supply chain, and... |
| 16.07.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Zeta Interactive snags $125M from Blackstone’s GSP General Partners
Marketing analytics company Zeta Interactive closed its ... |
| 16.07.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 26.04.2015 | Why, dear God, haven’t you started marketing yet? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“We have thousands of users and we have done no m... |
| 26.04.2015 | Why, dear God, haven’t you started marketing yet? | “We have thousands of users and we have done no marketing!”
This has become a common refrain among companies that I’ve been meeting with recently. I know their expectation is that I’ll be impressed by their thriftiness, but my internal reac... |
| 10.12.2014 | Chef’d Uses Crowdfunding To Roll Out Recipe-And-Ingredient Delivery Service For Gourmet Meals | Chef’d is the latest startup promising to deliver the tools (and by tools I mean recipes and ingredients) you need to cook delicious meals at home.
We’ve written about existing services like Plated and Blue Apron (which announced recently t... |
| 18.11.2014 | Hobson Acquisition Helps Zipments Prepare for Holiday Shoppers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Zipments, a New York City-based online delivery and “crowdsourced courier” service, is gearing up for a busy holiday season—and the company is hoping a market expansion and th... |
| 12.11.2014 | First Round-backed Blue Apron now makes $10M per month selling meals to lazy home chefs | Well, it turns out selling pre-prepped meal kits to aspiring home chefs can make you a lot of money.
Blue Apron, a company that does just that, today announced it is now delivering 1 million meals per month at $10 a pop. And alongside this ... |
| 23.09.2014 | Gobble Promises To Help Customers Make Delicious Meals In 10 Minutes Or Less | If you like the idea of cooking, but not, y’know, the actual work (or the fact that the food might turn out pretty badly), then Gobble may be the startup for you.
And I don’t mean that in a condescending way. When I try to cook, I do a dece... |
| 23.09.2014 | Gobble (YC W14) Promises To Help Customers Make Delicious Meals In 10 Minutes Or Less | If you like the idea of cooking, but not, y’know, the actual work (or the fact that the food might turn out pretty badly), then Gobble may be the startup for you. And I don’t mean that in a condescending way. When I try to cook, I do a dece... |
| 11.08.2014 | Plated Eats $15M in Series A |
NEW YORK, NY, Plated (Dine In Fresh Inc.) has raised $15 million in new Series A funding.
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According to the WSJ, P... |
| 28.07.2014 | Meal delivery business that wants to help you shop for ingredients goes live in Philly | Its delivery service can bring orders to wherever it’s most convenient for customers such as office parking lots as they get ready to go home, picking up children from school or leaving fitness centers. After graduating from the DreamIt Hea... |
| 16.07.2014 | #Foodhackers features storytelling from 4 food founders [photos] | You’ve been to enough meetups with demo pitches. At the first Food Hackers event, which was kicked off by Gowanus distribution startup Farmigo, which we profiled yesterday, the format was all storytelling.
The night allowed for speakers to ... |
| 30.04.2014 | Blue Apron attracts $500M valuation by catering to lazy chefs | Blue Apron customers fall somewhere in the center of the laziness spectrum.
On one end, there are inspired amateur chefs who rise bright and early to get all their ingredients from their local farmer’s market. On the other, there are lethar... |
| 30.04.2014 | Blue Apron attracts $500M valuation by catering to lazy chefs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Blue Apron customers fall somewhere in the center... |
| 07.01.2014 | Plated delivers ingredients and prep instructions to your door | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Plated has created the un-grocery-shopping-trip. ... |
| 07.01.2014 | Funding Daily: Smart glass | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
While our intrepid CES team braved the amoebic La... |
| 06.01.2014 | Plated Raises $5M in Series A Funding | According to the WSJ, DineInFresh Inc., a New York-based food startup also known as Plated, raised $5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by ff Venture Capital, with participation from Lerer Ventures, Founder Collective and Great Oaks V... |
| 06.12.2013 | Gift Guide: Five Kitchen Gadgets Your Foodie Will Eat Right Up | More food is consumed during the holiday season than at any other time. But that’s the thing with food; you can’t stay full forever. And so these gadgets, services and tools should serve your food-friendly loved ones quite handily. We’ll co... |
| 30.09.2013 | Rocket Internet’s HelloFresh Says Hello To $7.5M, As The Meal Prep Service Sets Its Eyes On The U.S. | Berlin’s Rocket Internet has of late made a big business out of incubating and growing e-commerce startups in emerging markets, far away from the U.S. where the competitive field is much more crowded. But today comes news of a funding round... |
| 05.09.2013 | Meals Marketplace Munchery Adds New Series A Investors Menlo, Sherpa Ventures & More, Hires In-House Chefs | Munchery, the Bay Area startup delivering professionally prepared gourmet meals you can order from web or mobile, is announcing today it has closed on the remaining amount of its previously reported $4 million in Series A funding, bringing ... |
| 02.09.2013 | Plated, The Startup That Delivers Fresh Ingredients To Your Door, Launches In SF | With the advent of online shopping and Amazon Prime 2-day shipping, humans are growing ever willing to pay for convenience and walk less.
In the wake of this phenomenon, Plated has risen up out of TechStars accelerator in New York to delive... |
| 26.08.2013 | PlateJoy offers personalized food subscription service | Ingredient delivery services are all the rage, but PlateJoy specializes in personalization
Instead of home-cooked meals delivered to your door, the new thing these days is ingredients for a gourmet meal delivered to your doorstep. It’s a br... |
| 01.07.2013 | Despite Shakeup, the Show Goes On at TechStars NYC Demo Day | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Eleven bright-eyed startups pitched ideas for 3-D imaging, enterprise software, and ad technology at a demo day last Thursday in New York to a crowded house of potential inves... |
| 28.06.2013 | With 100k Meals Delivered, Plated Will Expand Nationwide By The Fall | Having already raised a $1.4 million seed round in May, the meal ingredient delivery service Plated announced on the Techstars Demo Day stage that they will begin raising their Series A in the near future and expand nationwide by the fall.
... |
| 27.06.2013 | TechStars NYC’s 2013 Demo Day: Shopping advice for parents, gourmet recipe deliveries, and more | WEBSTER HALL, New York — The past few months have been rocky for TechStars NYC, but you couldn’t tell by looking at the startup accelerator’s diverse Spring 2013 cohort.
Today is demo day for the latest TechStars class, which is made up of ... |
| 27.06.2013 | TechStars NYC’s 2013 Demo Day: Shopping advice for parents, gourmet recipe deliveries, and more | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
WEBSTER HALL, New York — The past few months have been rocky for TechStars NYC, but you couldn’t tell by looking at the startup acceler... |
| 03.06.2013 | 100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You? | AngelList. It’s the place for startups to connect with funding and talent. Just this month, the site has helped raise $12 million in venture funding for a wide collection of startups. It may be the one site that best represents all players ... |
| 09.05.2013 | Backed With $1.4 Million, Plated Adds A Social Spin To Its Ready-To-Cook Meal Delivery Service | For the past several years, my New Year’s resolution has been some version of “cook more often” or “try a new recipe every week.” But it never really lasts. As much as I love the act of actually cooking, so much about it is a huge hassle — ... |
| 09.05.2013 | Funding Daily: The Great Gatsby | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The highly anticipated Great Gatsby movie comes o... |
| 09.05.2013 | Funding Daily: The Great Gatsby | The highly anticipated Great Gatsby movie comes out at midnight. Gatsby is a classic example of an entrepreneur who dreams of fame and fortune and sets out to create his own destiny. True, he comes to a tragic ending and cares far more abou... |
| 05.04.2013 | TechStars New York City Announces Spring 2013 Class | TechStars‘ blog announced the startups which will be part of the New York City class for Spring 2013.
They are:
– AdYapper, a provider real-time tools to understand how ads perform,
– Dash Labs, a connected car platform
– FaithStreet, a soc... |
| 04.04.2013 | TechStars NYC’s spring 2013 class targets religion, pet lovers, and parents | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
TechStars NYC just announced its latest class of startups, and it seems to be the most diverse collection of companies we’ve seen for t... |
| 04.04.2013 | TechStars NYC’s spring 2013 class targets religion, pet lovers, and parents | TechStars NYC just announced its latest class of startups, and it seems to be the most diverse collection of companies we’ve seen for the popular accelerator.
The group of 11 startups was chosen from almost 1,700 applicants, and it includes... |
| 30.11.2012 | Dwolla Launches Guest Checkout Option For Merchants, Allows Shoppers To Pay With Dwolla Without Signing Up | Online and mobile digital cash network Dwolla is breaking down one of the barriers to entry to using its service with today’s introduction of a new “guest checkout” feature for online merchants. The option will allow non-Dwolla users to pay... |
| - | Meal delivery business that wants to help you shop for ingredients goes live in Philly | Fitly is a digital health startup that wants to change how people think about food shopping. Its meal delivery service takes the view that ordering ingredients online, organized into “meal kits” is an effective way to curb needless calorie ... |
| - | Rajesh Sawhney’s InnerChef Goes IoT With HungerTap: Exclusive Interview & Insights | The growing number of food joints and the mind boggling amount of options, what to eat is a question which often puts a consumer in a tough spot. Keeping this in mind, Rajesh Sawhney, who launched a food tech startup, InnerChef, a few weeks... |
