News | Food | 7 Jan Karma battles food waste with smart fridges The Swedish food waste app is rolling out communal fridges to make it easier to distribute meals
News | Food | 19 Dec On-demand delivery startup Glovo raises €150m and becomes Spain’s second unicorn The Spanish competitor to Uber Eats and Deliveroo claims it will do what its rivals seem unable or unwilling to do: hit profitability in 2021. We catch up with chief executive Oscar Pierre on wooing investors, dark kitchens and acquisitions.
Analysis | Artificial Intelligence | 17 Dec Can AI make a better whisky than a human “nose”? Not quite yet. But here are some ways tech is changing the drinks industry.
Interview | Agriculture | 6 Dec Plantix cofounder wants investors to open their eyes to agtech With 1m users per month in India, Simone Strey runs the world’s largest agtech app. Yet, the cofounder and chief executive of Plantix says the work to help the world’s small-scale farmers is “never, ever done”.
Analysis | Food | 27 Nov This startup built a €250k edible-insect farm inside an old mine — with its own sauna Finnish startup EntoCube says it will make insect farming cheaper by taking it 1436m underground.
News | Corporate Innovation | 19 Nov Week in corporate innovation: veggie Whoppers and electric car wars A roundup of what Europe's biggest companies are doing with startups and technology: from BMW to Goldman Sachs.
Interview | Intrapreneurship | 19 Nov Waitrose: £10m in annual cost savings through innovation The UK supermarket chain saved £460,000 just from tweaking tills to allow people to opt out of getting a receipt — and that was just one of 4000+ staff ideas.
Analysis | VC | 12 Nov European VC firm Balderton’s heavy hitters As Balderton raises its 7th fund, we ask: how great, really, is its portfolio?
Analysis | Food | 6 Nov Seven plant-based food startups serving up vegan meat in Europe Impossible Foods has set its sights on Europe. Here are the European plant-based meat startups it will come up against.
News | Food | 4 Nov Karma Kitchen: A dark kitchen startup to watch London-based Karma Kitchen is small — but smart — in the hot world of dark kitchen startups. Today it launches a new marketplace on Uber Eats and is gearing up to open two new sites. The food delivery sector should pay attention.
News | Food | 18 Sep Vegetarian meal delivery startup Simple Feast raises €30m to take on the US Having already launched its veggie meals in Denmark and Sweden, Simple Feast sets its hopes on California.
News | Food | 16 Aug These were the biggest European tech startup news stories this week From brand new venture capital funds to delivery wars, it was another big week for European startup news. Here's the news you need to know.
Analysis | Food | 14 Aug The food delivery startups, compared Ahead of further fierce battles to be fought between Europe's food delivery companies, we lay out the state of play: who's who, who's where and what's next?
Analysis | Software | 14 Aug Food delivery firms cause kitchen chaos Competing food delivery channels can boost small restaurants' profits — but they cause havoc for staff.
News | Food | 14 Aug Ride-hailing startup Bolt moves into food delivery Bolt, the Tallinn-based thorn in Uber’s side, is moving into food delivery in eastern Europe this year — and it thinks it has an edge over its much better-funded competitors.
Analysis | Health | 13 Aug From Baze to Vitl, personalised vitamin startups want your blood Would you take a blood test for personalised supplements and vitamins?
