At Food-X we’ve been investing for 6+ years in those working to change and improve the food system. The global pandemic of COVID-19 has accelerated this change as it has swept across the planet and in turn, shaped what kinds of companies we will support in our next program, Food-X 2021. Globally, food supply chains and traditional retail models have been tested, in many cases beyond the breaking point. Add to that the reckoning of racial and economic inequalities and how they connect with our diet, and it is clear that there’s no going back to the standard idea of what “innovation” means in r ..read more

What do you call it when an accelerator decides to slow down? It’s a question that has been on our minds since wrapping up Food-X 11 this past June. In the 11 cohorts of Food-X, we’ve been a living example of the saying, “It’s a marathon and a sprint.” Our day to day pace of helping companies and preparing for the next batch at times felt unsustainable, yet in comparison to the speed of the investment world around us, we never felt like we were moving fast enough. Then at the start of 2020, enter Covid-19 and the forced slow down of just about everything. And as revealed by hours of last-minu ..read more

NEW YORK, April 14, 2020 – Food-X, the pioneering and most active food innovation accelerator in the world, today revealed its first-ever virtual cohort of startups. Among the eight cutting edge companies are a SaaS platform bolstering business for traditional restaurants and ghost kitchens; a disruptor modernizing the antiquated dairy supply chain; a plant-based pet nutrition company; and a first-of-its-kind marketplace for discovering ingredients and commodities. For Cohort 11, Food-X reviewed nearly 500 applications from 56 countries before deciding upon eight ventures from seven countries ..read more

With the launch of our 10th Food-X cohort this fall and 5 years of running the first food startup accelerator, we are grateful for the nearly 90 companies that have made Food-X what it is today. Throughout the journey of running an accelerator, we’ve met hundreds of inspiring and hard-working entrepreneurs and been fortunate to have a front-row seat to the massive changes that continue to shake-up our food system. From our beginnings in 2014, we’ve pioneered the most active food innovation accelerator in the world. In total, we have invested more than $10 million in startups, such as Hall ..read more

I’m excited to announce our most recent group of innovators who have joined the portfolio of companies we invest in and work with via Food-X and SOSV. Among the seven companies are a conversational commerce disrupter, a venture offering clean label flavor innovations, an AI-powered real-time consumer insights startup and a fresh food company harnessing smart technology. The seven startups were selected from a pool of nearly 500 global applicants. Five of the eight have international teams with the following countries represented: Croatia, India, Russia and Spain. Our mission is to scale change ..read more

As with the prior seven cohorts of Food-X, we are on the lookout for founders that are innovating in different ways across the entire breadth of the global food chain. The companies that make up our latest cohort represent innovation in a number of areas that we believe are in need of change and we’re proud to support the founders who are making that change. The eight ventures were selected from a pool of nearly 500 international applicants spanning 6 continents with more than 85 percent of the startups being female-led/co-led. Among them are a venture aiming to provide greater transparency be ..read more

It’s with a great deal of excitement that I introduce the 8 companies that are part of our latest Food-X class. With our seventh cohort, Food-X has now invested in and worked with 62 different businesses that are impacting our food chain and/or industries that touch the food chain. With our focus on agriculture technologies, B2B food technologies, and consumer packaged goods we are able to gain a level of visibility into where our food system is headed that is truly exciting. Whether it’s reducing our reliance on meat, using deep learning to improve food production, or investing in functional ..read more

CleanTechIQ invites you to join leading corporations, project developers, investors, startups and smart city leaders to discuss evolving business models, new technologies and innovative financing that is driving the development of sustainable agriculture and innovative food technologies. Key topics and innovations discussed at our Forum includes: corporate food and ag innovation, AgTech venture capital investment, urban farming, aquaculture, precision agriculture, bio-agriculture and food waste-to-value. 7:30am Breakfast Networking 8:15am Welcome Remarks 8:20am Keynote: Major Corporate Present ..read more

Founder Camille Varlet noticed her friends were all talking about beauty from a topical, superficial or cosmetic solution fix, and they weren’t drinking enough water. Creating a great tasting drink to help women hydrate, with added skin benefits, was how All Beauty Skincare Drink® was born. She wanted health & wellness to be part of the beauty dialog, and make it about beauty and skincare from within. allbeautydrink.com The post All Beauty Creates a healthy beverage that makes your skin shine appeared first on Food-X ..read more

Wasteless goal is to re-capture $1B of lost grocery revenues each week. Wasteless introduces the Internet of Groceries to re-capture $1B of lost grocery sales every week. Wasteless has launched the world’s first machine learning and real-time tracking solution for grocery stores to offer customers dynamic pricing based on product expiration date. http://www.wasteless.co/ The post Ben Biron from Wasteless.co recaptures lost grocery revenues appeared first on Food-X ..read more