Meal delivery service Daily Harvest recalls lentil product after customers report falling ill
Plant-based meal delivery service Daily Harvest issued a public recall of its French Lentil and Leek Crumbles product on June 22nd after dozens of customers reported that they fell ill after consuming it, The Wall Street Journal reports. Some people have reported undergoing surgery to remove their …
According to The Good Food Institute, fermentation startups received $290 million of the $911 million investors dropped on alternative protein companies in Q1 2022.
Investors salivate over food tech companies perfecting precision fermentation
The tech is not "new," but sector followers are excited for the potential of better-quality, more-cost-effective proteins versus animal-based counterparts.
Yo! Egg cracks into US restaurants with plant-based sunny-side-up, poached eggs
Yo! Egg is going after the more difficult “whole egg” experience, having developed an egg white and running yolk for consumers who like that style of eggs.
Yelp expands restaurant health ratings in partnership with food tech startup Hazel Analytics
Yelp is broadening its partnership with Seattle-based food tech startup Hazel Analytics to expand health ratings on its platform, the company announced on Thursday. The two companies are working together to further expand Yelp’s health grades information on restaurant listings. Yelp first par…
Payrails emerges from stealth with $6.4M led by a16z to build the OS for payments
Payments — taking and and paying out money — remains a fragmented and complex area for merchants, marketplaces and others that do business with multiple parties online, and as it grows — from $1.5 trillion today to $2.9 trillion by 2030 — that complexity will grow, too. Toda…
Having a great "ask" slide can reassure investors: It shows a founder wants to raise an amount of money that unlocks the next stage of growth and knows what milestones they need to hit to get there.