The 2013 Ultimate Food Tech Holiday Gift Guide
On the hunt for awesome gifts for the food nerds in your life? We’ve got you covered with our top gadgets, apps, books and food box picks. Designed to fit budgets large and small, these gifts will satisfy eaters, makers and hackers alike.

Our Gift to You: Food Startup Education
We're on a mission to make food startup education affordable and accessible for all. Let us know what skills you need and we'll use your feedback to develop a series of classes beginning in January. 

TellSpec Scans Your Food, Reveals Calories, Ingredients & Allergens
What if you could you could scan your food to get a complete picture of its calories, ingredients and allergens, all in just 3 seconds? Welcome to the future, folks. TellSpec, a revolutionary food scanning device, is on its way to making this possible.

How Power Supply Boot-Strapped Its Way To 300k+ Meal Subscriptions
Investment in the crowded food subscription space just keeps coming. The Center for Innovative Technology’s (CIT) GAP Funds announced last week that it has invested an undisclosed amount of money in Washington, DC-based Power Supply, a healthy meal subscription startup.

AgFunder Launches Equity Crowdfunding Platform For $6.4 Trillion Food & Ag Industry
Equity-based crowdfunding platform AgFunder, which launched in September, is bringing transparency and accelerated deal flow to the agriculture industry by making it easy to syndicate agricultural investment opportunities.

GoldBely Helps Specialty Food Producers Sell to a National Audience
Goldbely is a curated e-commerce marketplace that makes it easy for anyone to experience the best regional food from around the country.

Foodini: The £835 Machine That 'Prints' Food in Your Kitchen - Independent
Barcelona-based Natural Machines have unveiled the Foodini, a 3D food printer for the home cook. 

Bill Gates-Funded Startup Hampton Creek Foods Aims To Replace Eggs - Huffington Post
Hampton Creek Foods seeks to disrupt a global egg industry that backers say wastes energy, pollutes the environment, causes disease outbreaks and confines chickens to tiny spaces.

Milk Producer WhiteWave to Buy Earthbound Farm for $600 Mil - Yahoo
WhiteWave Foods Co will buy Earthbound Farm from investors for about $600 million to expand its offerings of organic products.

Meal Kits Are Fine and All, But Feast Wants to Turn You Into a Cook for Life - Pandodaily
Feast believes its developed the solution for helping people become naturals in the kitchen. And last week it began selling this solution on its site for $49 per month. 

SimplyEight Startup Gives People Recipes With 8 Ingredients or Less - Right Startups
Simply Eight's goal is to provide food with a simple amount of ingredients. Since June 2013 this company has made available cookies in some Spartan store aisles.

Google Ventures Invests in The Connected Kitchen - GIgaOM
The Orange Chef has raised $1.2 million in seed funding led by Google Ventures and Spark Labs. 

Hi-Tech Sensors Aim to Help Prevent Obesity - BBC
A range of hi-tech sensors that can measure food intake and activity in order to assess obesity risks is to be funded by the European Union.

Instacart Introduces Neighbor-to-Neighbor Grocery Delivery to Boston - Boston.com
It's easy to see the appeal of Instacart: you can order groceries online and have them delivered to your doorstep in an hour or two, for a delivery charge of as little as $3.99.

Foodie.fm Expands Online Grocery Business in the United Kingdom - PRNewswire
Foodie.fm and The Southern Co-operative (TSC), an independent food retail co-operative trading across the south of England, have established a partnership to trial Click & Collect services.

USAID Grants $13 Million to Innovative Agriculture Startups - Inc.
The agency announced the winners of its Powering Agriculture Grand Challenge, which called for businesses, non-profits, and universities to come up with clean energy solutions for farmers in the developing world.

Freight Farms raises $1.2 million for greenhouses built in old shipping containers - Pandodaily
Freight Farms has raised a Series A round of funding worth $1.2 million. Morningstar Venture Investments Limited led the round with Launch Capital and Rothenberg Ventures participating.

How Might Open Data in Agriculture Help Achieve Food Security? - Guardian
The policy support for improving the ability to store and share data on agriculture is growing. But how do you ensure farmers in developing countries benefit and will it achieve food security?

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