Meet the Founder: YFood Club Members Better Nature
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by YFood
1y ago
    Elin Roberts is the Co-Founder & CMO of Better Nature, a company on a mission to create delicious and sustainable plant-based foods that support a better future for us all. We’re excited to learn more about the inspiration behind Better Nature and the company’s plans for the future.     So, how can we get 500 million people eating tempeh by 2030?     What inspired you to launch Better Nature? It was a perfect storm between the four of us. Driando grew up on Java Island in Indonesia, eating tempeh every day throughout his childhood. As it was such a local ..read more
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YFood 2022 Highlights
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by YFood
1y ago
  Let’s take a look back at some of the highlights from our 2022 YFood Club Calendar. We have hosted dozens of memorable events, with many more planned for 2023. It’s been an exciting year for us and we can’t tell you just how happy we are to be back and to be working side by side with all the epic and pioneering companies within the community – we love you all (it’s the end of year… we’re allowed a little bit of cheese!)   So here’s a recap of just some of things that have happened (Since May 2022 – our official back to the real-world date):   At the end of May we launched ou ..read more
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YFood Tech Wednesdays with Emilie Vanpoperinghe, Co-founder & CEO, Oddbox
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by YFood
1y ago
  At our November edition of YFood Tech Wednesdays we were joined by Emilie Vanpoperinghe, Co-founder & CEO, Oddbox, who we were super excited to welcome back to YFood events.   Oddbox, is a mission-led startup that rescues the ‘too odd’, and ‘too many’ fruit and veg at risk of going to waste. Founded in 2016, the business has distributed over 5 million boxes, with its community rescuing a combined 30,000 tonnes of fresh fruit and veg. It has raised £19m in funding across 2020 and 2021 to further its impact. YFood Tech Wednesdays is a unique event designed to bring like-minded p ..read more
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Nudging Good Change
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by YFood
1y ago
  Last week in our NUDGING for Change online session, we explored the latest innovations that NUDGE us in the right direction. We heard from the companies and technologies that are not only tackling some of our planet’s greatest challenges, but making it super easy and convenient for each and everyone of us to do so.      Wendy Gordon, President of PIPs Rewards, an experienced entrepreneur and pioneer in the conscious consumer movement, kicked off with an overview of PIPs Rewards and how they use behavioural science to motivate change and NUDGE people to live and eat bette ..read more
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How to make hygiene verification simple and cost efficient – it’s all in the colour change!
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by Fresh Check
1y ago
    YFood Founding Member FreshCheck is a disruptive offering, working with food companies – with their simple and cost efficient hygiene verification and colour change technology.   At FreshCheck we work with food companies to confirm cleanliness and improve hygiene reporting to ensure you can provide exemplary service to your customers. Many companies outsource their hygiene monitoring testing so we hope to bring some clarity to the tests being undertaken. Our Head of Sales, Mark Tolson, is an expert in hygiene testing with over 35 years of experience. Here he breaks down the ..read more
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Alberts raises 2.5M EUR to boost international expansion plans
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by YFood
1y ago
    The Belgian startup Alberts, who launched the world’s first fully-automated smoothie vending machine, have received a financial injection of 2.5M EUR (£2.2M ) to scale their business model internationally. By combining several technologies, Alberts has created the Alberts One  – their scalable robotic solution for hassle free healthy food at work. The first destination in their global expansion plans? The United Kingdom. Alberts, led by CEO Glenn Mathijssen, believe that by making healthy food super accessible they can help more people to eat healthier. The Alberts One, is ..read more
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YFood Founding Members Autonomo launch checkout-free store Hoody making local produce accessible and convenient
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by YFood
1y ago
  Exciting news from YFood Founding Members! James joined us at our CONNECT: NOW YFood Insight & Innovation Day. At this mainstage panel discussion – Where did all the people go? –  we explored the opportunity for automation, AI, imaging and robotics in the Food & Drink Industry.        Hoody, a checkout-free store The retail landscape has shifted. Retailers are under pressure and competing in an incredibly tight labour market. And the timing is right, customers have significantly improved their understanding of innovative and contactless technologies du ..read more
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YFood Tech Wednesdays with Amanda Thomson, Founder & CEO, Thomson & Scott and creator of Noughty, THE BEST alcohol-free wines
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by YFood
1y ago
  This month we were pumped to be joined by Amanda Thomson, the passionate Founder & CEO of B Corp Certified Thomson & Scott and creator of Noughty, THE BEST alcohol-free wines around.  Amanda is a true innovator and disruptor. In a room full of YFood community we were lucky to hear her brave story, her goal to permanently change society’s relationship with alcohol and her mission to champion underrepresented founders.  Amanda is also driving the debate into greater transparency in labelling and wants consumers to know what’s in their bottle.   THE VISION For A ..read more
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YFood Tech Wednesdays with Amanda Thomson, Founder & CEO, Thomson & Scott and creator of Noughty, THE BEST alcohol-free wines
YFood Limited
by YFood
1y ago
  This month we were pumped to be joined by Amanda Thomson, the passionate Founder & CEO of B Corp Certified Thomson & Scott and creator of Noughty, THE BEST alcohol-free wines around.  Amanda is a true innovator and disruptor. In a room full of YFood community we were lucky to hear her brave story, her goal to permanently change society’s relationship with alcohol and her mission to champion underrepresented founders.  Amanda is also driving the debate into greater transparency in labelling and wants consumers to know what’s in their bottle.   THE VISION For A ..read more
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YFood Founding Members Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, to develop technology converting air to sugar
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by YFood
1y ago
    Exciting news from our Founding Members! CCEP Ventures has shared their latest investment activity with YFood, a collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) to develop scalable methods of converting captured CO2 into sugar. Their initial investment with UCB will support the Peidong Yang Research Group on foundational research which will focus on enabling the production of sugar from CO₂ on site and at an industrial level, with expectation of future investments to drive scale – from lab to pilot phase. In the longer term they’re hopeful this technology could m ..read more
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