| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.10.2025 | New deaths and illnesses reported in listeria outbreak tied to recalled pasta meals | By JONEL ALECCIA
Two new deaths and seven more illnesses have been reported in an expanding outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to recalled pasta meals sold at grocery stores including Walmart and Trader Joe’s in many states. Related A... |
| 18.06.2025 | Deadly listeria outbreak linked to chicken alfredo fettucine sold at Kroger and Walmart | — 12.5-ounce trays of Home Chef Heat & Eat Chicken Fettucine Alfredo with Pasta, Grilled White Meat Chicken and Parmesan Cheese, with best-by dates of June 19 or earlier.
The strain of listeria bacteria tied to the outbreak has been det... |
| 09.12.2024 | Connexa Capital: Interview With Managing Partner Jonathan Beda About The Venture Firm | Connexa Capital is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies with strong business fundamentals and sustainable growth strategies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Connexa Capital managing partner Jonathan Beda to learn more about the f... |
| 18.07.2024 | Coldcart Disrupts the Perishable Parcel Logistics Industry with $6.5M Seed Funding | In a groundbreaking move, Coldcart, a Chicago-based provider of an orchestration and optimization platform for frozen and refrigerated parcel logistics, has secured a significant $6.5 million in seed funding. This funding round, led by Coll... |
| 15.07.2024 | Coldcart Announces $6.5M Seed Round to Eliminate Perishable Parcel Shipping Inefficiency and Complexity | Oversubscribed Funding Round Will Accelerate Adoption of Coldcart’s Technology Platform Across Frozen and Refrigerated Shippers and Logistics Providers
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 15, 2024–
Coldcart, the first orchestration and optimizatio... |
| 04.06.2024 | Kroger Celebrates Dad with Father's Day Gift Guide | Retailer shares five ways to spoil dad on Father's Day
CINCINNATI, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) is celebrating dads with a Father's Day gift guide boasting thoughtful and convenient gifts to mark the occasion. From... |
| 03.06.2024 | Ticketmaster hacked in what’s believed to be a spree hitting Snowflake customers | Enlarge
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Cloud storage provider Snowflake said that accounts belonging to multiple customers have been hacked after threat actors obtained credentials through info-stealing malware or by purchasing them on onl... |
| 18.03.2024 | AT&T Denies Suffering Data Leak That Impacted 70 Million Users | Aldohn Domingo, Tech Times 18 March 2024, 12:03 am
An alleged AT&T data leak has reportedly been denied by the telecommunications giant, claiming that the data from roughly 70 million people recently posted for free on a hacking forum d... |
| 14.03.2024 | Prepared Meal Delivery Market Size, Share And Growth Analysis For 2024-2033 | Prepared Meal Delivery Global Market Report 2024 – Market Size, Trends, And Global Forecast 2024-2033
The Business Research Company has updated its global market reports with latest data for 2024 and projections up to 2033
It will grow to $... |
| 12.05.2022 | Corporate commitments, policy drive record $1.9bn funding for food waste solutions: ReFED | Technology companies tackling food waste raised $1.9 billion in funding in 2021, representing 101% year-on-year growth, according to a new report from US-based nonprofit ReFED. This takes investment in food waste tech and business models mi... |
| 30.12.2021 | Features vs. Benefits: A Crash Course on Proper Messaging | Great marketing copy doesn't just sell a product, it builds a connection with the audience. The beauty of proper messaging is that by communicating either the benefits or features of your product or service, you can tell customers what they... |
| 19.08.2021 | Kroger-Owned Home Chef Launches Retail Aware Pilot to Measure In-store Analytics | Kroger-Owned Home Chef Launches Retail Aware Pilot Retail Aware’s solution will help us learn about shoppers’ behaviors in real-time and ensure people can find Home Chef meals in their local grocery store. - Mitch Esparza Dir. of Retail Bus... |
| 25.02.2021 | 11 Ways To Effectively Communicate With Employees When Your Company’s Constantly Changing | Whatever their development stage, many companies are dealing with near-constant change right now. Employees are having to adjust to issues including layoffs, heavier workloads and shifting between remote and blended workplace arrangements—a... |
| 25.02.2021 | These New Work-From-Home Meals Could Keep You Happy — And Healthy | One of Nourish, Inc., entrees delivered to remote employees. Sodexo/Nourish |
| 20.01.2021 | Parsley Box: Targeted at baby boomers, this Edinburgh meal delivery service secures £5M for growth | Parsley Box is an Edinburgh-based direct-to-consumer service, which provides ambient ready meals focused on the underserved baby boomer demographic. The company just received fresh funding focused on its growth. Investment from Mobeus
The E... |
| 13.01.2021 | Meal delivery company raises $15.5 million | NEW YORK — Meal delivery company CookUnity raised $15.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Fuel Venture Capital, with participation from IDC Ventures.
The Series A round brings Cook Unity’s total funding to $23 million and will enab... |
| 11.01.2021 | HelloFresh US CEO: 'We believe that habits formed during quarantine such as cooking at home will continue' | Founded in Berlin in November 2011, HelloFresh went public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in November 2017. The world’s leading meal kit company, it now operates in the US, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austral... |
| 24.12.2020 | Belgian pet food developer and delivery service Dog Chef raises €1 million | Dog Chef, a Belgian startup that produces fresh food for pets, has raised €1 million from Proplast, Seeder Fund and two business angels. The funding will help them develop their workshop near Brussels and grow the team.
Wanting to provide t... |
| 22.12.2020 | 5 Tips To Save Time (And Sanity) This Holiday Season | (NAPSI)—Doesn’t it seem like the most wonderful time of the year is actually the most stressful time of the year? Add to that a global pandemic, virtual schooling and working from home and it may seem like time is anywhere but on your side.... |
| 22.12.2020 | 5 Tips To Save Time (And Sanity) This Holiday Season | (NAPSI)—Doesn’t it seem like the most wonderful time of the year is actually the most stressful time of the year? Add to that a global pandemic, virtual schooling and working from home and it may seem like time is anywhere but on your side.... |
| 28.07.2020 | Meal Kit Delivery Company Home Chef Announces Collaboration With Impossible Foods | Chicago-based Home Chef, one of the nation’s leading meal kit delivery companies, announced a new collaboration with Impossible Foods. Each week, Home Chef will offer its “Customize It” feature on several recipes that allow customers to swa... |
| 15.07.2020 | Impossible Foods Recovers After COVID-19 Crisis, On Track to Increase Retail Availability 50X Throughout 2020 | Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Impossible Foods has expanded its grocery store footprint by more than 30X. And the food tech startup is now on track to increase retail availability 50X throughout 2020. In March, Impossible Burger... |
| 26.05.2020 | Meal, grocery delivery services can help sheltering seniors | Dear Savvy Senior: Can you recommend some good grocery and/or meal service delivery options for seniors? My 78-year-old mother has always shopped for herself, but since the coronavirus pandemic hit, the grocery store shelves are always half... |
| 20.05.2020 | Meal Kit Delivery Service Home Chef Announces Data Breach
Meal Kit Delivery Service Home Chef Announces Data Breach | (Bloomberg) -- Meal kit delivery service Home Chef announced a data breach Wednesday, two weeks after reports that its customer information was for sale on the dark web. Home Chef, which was acquired by Kroger Co. in 2018, said it was notif... |
| 20.03.2020 | COVID-19: Mealkit brands see sharp increase in demand, although longer-term impact harder to predict | While several meal kit brands have recently pivoted from an online subscription-based home delivery model to focus efforts on retail meal kits, COVID-19 has prompted a sudden interest in home deliveries, with Blue Apron CEO Linda Findley Ko... |
| 21.02.2020 | Blue Apron explores a sale… but who’s buying? | Right now, Blue Apron’s options aren’t great, said Sean Butler, who formerly held senior positions at meal kit brands Purple Carrot and Chef’d and is now managing director at consumer products supply chain consultancy LIDD.
“The company ... |
| 25.05.2018 | Kroger to acquire Home Chef for $200 million; final deal could be worth as much as $700 million | Supermarket giant Kroger has agreed to acquire Home Chef, a Chicago-based meal kit delivery company. The initial transaction price is $200 million, and future earnout payments of up to $500 million over five years are contingent on achievin... |
| 25.05.2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Friday, May 25 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Friday, May 25.
Google teams up with Danish edtech startup to bring VR into classrooms. Danish startup Labster has teamed up with Google to offer VR-powered scienc... |
| 24.05.2018 | Kroger acquires meal kit company Home Chef for $200m: ‘The future of our industry is omni-channel’ | Kroger will purchase Home Chef for an initial transaction price of $200m with future earnout payments of up to $500m over the next five years contingent upon achieving specific milestones. Home Chef registered 150% growth in 2017 with $250m... |
| 23.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, June 23 | OPEN MIC, UBER EDITION
After Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was fired, one of the (many, many) takes on the news was that Uber’s business model is a bigger problem than its toxic culture. Here’s one example of this take from the Wall Street Journ... |
| 06.10.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Singapore State Fund Temasek Invests in Seed Tech Company, ClearPath Robotics Raises $30m, more | VoloAgri, a vegetable seed technology and breeding company, raised $69 million in Series C funding in a round led by Singapore state fund Temasek, joined by WP Global Partners and others. This is Temasek’s third agtech investment in under a... |
| 02.10.2016 | L Catterton Leads $40M Series B for Home Chef | Home Chef, a Chicago-based meal kit delivery service, announced it has secured $40 million in Series B capital through an investment led by L Catterton, the largest consumer-focused private equity firm in the world. This funding will allow ... |
| 30.09.2016 | Home Chef Secures $40M in Series B |
CHICAGO, IL, Home Chef, a meal kit delivery service, announced it has secured $40 million in Series B capital through an investment led by L Catterton.
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| 30.09.2016 | Home Chef Raises $40M in Series B Funding | Home Chef, a Chicago, IL-based meal kit delivery company, raised $40m in Series B funding.
L Catterton, a consumer-focused private equity firm, made the investment.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow in the $1.5 billio... |
| 29.09.2016 | Meal kit service Home Chef raises $40M | Home Chef just announced that it’s raised a new $40 million round of funding.
This Series B comes on top of the $10 million round that Home Chef raised earlier this year. It was led by L Catterton, the private equity firm formed by the rece... |
| 29.09.2016 | New Money: Meal Kit Delivery Startup Home Chef Raises $40M to Accelerate Expansion | Home Chef:
Deal: $40 Million Series B
Investors: The round was led by L Catterton, the private equity firm that formed earlier this year as the result of a merger between Catterton, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based PE firm, and the private eq... |
| 23.05.2016 | Sun Basket raises $11.6M for organic food delivery | Focusing on organic and sustainable, new startup takes aim at well-funded Blue Apron and HelloFresh
I’m beginning to see the food tech sector like the restaurant business. Entrepreneurs will always try their hand at it, even if success has ... |
| 03.05.2016 | Home Chef Secures $10M in Series A Funding | Home Chef, a Chicago, IL-based meal kit delivery service, secured $10m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Shining Capital and Guild Capital.
The company, which expects to raise additional capital in the near future, intends to use th... |
| 02.05.2016 | New Money: Home Chef Raises $10 Million Series A, to Open a West Coast Distribution Center | New Money is a roundup of all the funding deals raised by Chicago-area tech companies this week. As more news comes out, this post will be updated. [New Money] Home Chef:
Deal: $10 Million Series A
Investors: Shining Capital and Guild Capit... |
| 29.04.2016 | Home Chef raises $10M for meal kits and “taste algorithms” | Home Chef, one of several startups delivering recipes and ingredients to take some of the hassle out of home cooking, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding.
Founder and CEO Pat Vihtelic told me that Home Chef stan... |
| 09.09.2015 | Vinomofo founders invest $250,000 in Melbourne meal delivery startup Nourissh | Melbourne startup Nourissh has raised $250,000 from Justin Dry and Andre Eikmeier, the co-founders of Vinomofo.
Launched this year by Amanda Campbell, a sports kinesiologist, Nourissh is a meal delivery service which specialises in providin... |
| 01.05.2015 | Online meal delivery startup SpoonJoy raises $1 million from SAIF partners | Bangalore-based Emvito Technologies Pvt Ltd, which operates , a subscription-based online platform that allows office goers and other consumers order meal packs such as set cut-fruit packs, has raised $1 million from SAIF Partners.
With the... |
| 26.11.2014 | Top 11 Thanksgiving Food Services and Apps | Brace yourself:
The Thanksgiving dinner is a center point of the holiday for a lot of people, and this year I want to help you and yours find a happy balance at the intersection of food and technology. There are countless apps and services ... |
| 25.11.2014 | 30 Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes from Startups | Honestly, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Not only does it fall within the boundaries of the best season (i.e., autumn), but the holiday is marked by lots and lots of food. And, I mean, is there anything better than food? Answer: no. A... |
| 25.07.2014 | Home Chef Raises Seed Funding | Home Chef, a Chicago, IL-based ingredient and recipe delivery service, raised a new round of seed funding.
Guild Capital made the investment of undisclosed amount.
Led by Bryon Finke, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Home Chef provides... |
| 22.07.2014 | Home Chef Closes New Round of Funding and Grabs a Seat at the Crowded, Well Fed Delivery Table | The food delivery industry is extremely well fed.
Yesterday, CB Insights reported that companies operating in the food delivery space raised nearly $486 million across 109 deals globally between Q2 2013 and Q1 2014.
Today, you can add anoth... |
