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| Jan 13, 2020 | 2020: the year of robo-baristas at SFO, SJC (and other airports too?) | Last spring in San Francisco, I went on a robo-caffeinated trip to Cafe X Technologies, a runner-up in AgFunder’s 2019 AgriFood-Tech Innovation Awards.
Shortly after meeting Cafe X chief operating officer Cynthia Yeung, I was introduced to ... |
| Jan 8, 2020 | Foodservice And Restaurant Trends Driving Innovation In 2020 | Every year at Mattson, we release our New Years Trends, but this year we’re doing it in two phases. This first phase is focused on food away from home, where about half of all dining dollars are spent. Following this are our consumer packag... |
| Oct 13, 2019 | SoftBank reportedly preps a package to take control of WeWork parent company | SoftBank Group, the multibillion-dollar Japanese technology conglomerate and investment firm, has put together a bid that would save WeWork parent company The We Company, just weeks before the co-working real estate company’s imminent colla... |
| Sep 23, 2019 | The Vision Fund’s Method Of Valuing Companies Looks A Bit Off | 23 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: News that WeWork’s leading investor is ready to ditch its controversial CEO is notable. Most investors leave founders alone. But when another SoftBank Vision Fund bet looks sideways... |
| May 9, 2019 | Karakuri raises $9 million for robotics that help kitchens personalize meals and portions | Karakuri, a fledgling robotics startup that’s meshing machine learning, optics, and sensors to help commercial kitchens automate the process of dispensing ingredients and measuring precise quantities, has raised £7 million ($9.1 million) in... |
| May 9, 2019 | Karakuri raises $9 million for robotics that help kitchens personalize meals and portions | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Karakuri, a fledgling robotics startup that’s mes... |
| Apr 29, 2019 | At Cafe X, Robot Baristas are Grinding Down the Competition | Who makes the best coffee in the world these days? One place to find out is the World Barista Championships, where in Boston this April, South Korea’s Jooyeon Jeon of Momos Coffee triumphed over her lightly bearded male rivals in the final.... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | Retail Infrastructure as a Service | This is the fourth and last deep dive into the technology investment themes we outlined earlier this year that we will delve into in 2019 and beyond. |
| Feb 13, 2019 | 60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now! | *VOTING EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 9AM ET!*
We’re very excited to open our Third Annual AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards, where we recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward.
Our nomination comm... |
| Nov 2, 2018 | Роботизированная пиццерия Zume с инвестициями Дмитрия Гришина привлекла $375 млн при оценке более $2 млрд Статьи редакции | Компания научилась готовить «на ходу», инвестор надеется привести её технологии в Россию.
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Калифорнийский сервис доставки пиццы Zume Pizza, который использует роботов на к... |
| Nov 1, 2018 | Zume Pizza’s Parent Company Raises $375M From SoftBank, Beer Exec Joins Board | 54 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Updated: After initial publication, a person close to the matter reached out to Crunchbase News with more information. We’ve added their comments here.
According to regulatory paperwork filed quietl... |
| Aug 8, 2018 | SoftBank May Invest up to $750 Million in Robotic Pizza Startup Zume | Talk about a pizza delivery.
SoftBank Vision Fund is considering a $500 million to $750 million investment in Zume, a robotic pizza startup based in Silicon Valley, according to a Bloomberg report, citing unnamed sources.
The secretive firm... |
| May 28, 2018 | Startup che meritano attenzione, secondo i più importanti fondi di investimento | È stato chiesto ai più importanti fondi di venture capital di tutto il mondo (tra cui Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Bessemer, Greylock Ventures, Kleiner Perkins e Sequoia) di segnalare le startup di cui potremmo sentir parla... |
| Apr 25, 2018 | Delivery startup Zume makes its oven-equipped vans available to other food companies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Zume, the company whose delivery vans use hyper-e... |
| Apr 25, 2018 | Delivery startup Zume makes its oven-equipped vans available to other food companies | Zume, the company whose delivery vans use hyper-efficient ovens to make your pizza as it is delivering it to you, is jumping on the trend for healthy and fresh fast food.
The company is announcing a partnership with food service appliance m... |
| Dec 4, 2017 | Tortuga AgTech Raises $2.4m Seed Round for Indoor Ag Robotics | Tortuga AgTech, a Denver-based robotics startup targeting controlled-environment fruit and vegetable growers has raised a $2.4 million Seed round.
Tortuga Agtech is developing robotic systems for harvesting fresh produce in controlled envir... |
| Oct 11, 2017 | Robot-Enabled Pizza Startup Raises $48m Series B Bucking Decline in Restaurant Tech | Zume Pizza, a pizza delivery company with a robot for a chef, has raised a $48 million Series B round according to a SEC filing. The Mountain View, CA company has not released its cast of investors in this round, but previous investors incl... |
| Oct 11, 2017 | Robot-enabled pizza startup raises $48m Series B, bucking decline in restaurant tech | Zume Pizza, a pizza delivery company with a robot for a chef, has raised a $48 million Series B round according to a SEC filing. The Mountain View, California company has not released its cast of investors in this round, but previous invest... |
| Oct 10, 2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, October 10 | BIG MONEY, FEW DEALS
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| Oct 9, 2017 | Zume scores $48 million in funding to expand its robotic pizza empire | Zume has long had grand ambitions for its food automation service, and the Mountain View-based startup is now $48 million closer to that goal, courtesy of a new series B. The funding, first spotted by CNBC, was detailed in an SEC filing, al... |
| Aug 6, 2017 | What jobs will be left in a robotic nation? | By every measure, our country is on the road to becoming an AUTOMATION NATION. Our Money Issue Cover Story comes from David Pogue of Yahoo Finance (An earlier version of this report originally aired on April 9, 2017):
Tony Hughes has been a... |
| Jul 13, 2017 | Hungry? There’s a robot for that at TC Disrupt SF | Robotics has the potential to change the world. From jobs that are difficult or dangerous to do, to jobs that people simply don’t want to do, robotics will undoubtedly step in and fill these roles. Two such jobs are the cooking and delivery... |
| Jun 28, 2017 | Zume Pizza adds extra automation as it rolls out to new cities | Zume Pizza has its eyes set on disrupting legacy pizza players like Pizza Hut and Domino’s by improving on both speed and quality with the help of robots. Over the last two years, founder Julia Collins has been steadily adding new machines ... |
| Jun 28, 2017 | How Zume Pizza is using automation to produce the perfect pie | Millions of jobs will be lost to automation as part of the so-called fourth industrial revolution, according to a recent World Economic Forum report, with an anticipated net loss of as many as five million jobs by 2020. Another recent repor... |
| Jun 28, 2017 | How Zume Pizza is using automation to produce the perfect pie | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Millions of jobs will be lost to automation as part of the so-called fourth industrial revolution, according to a recent World Economic... |
| Apr 12, 2017 | Marble debuts its autonomous food-delivery robots in partnership with Yelp | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Fledgling robotics startup Marble has announced i... |
| Apr 12, 2017 | Marble debuts its autonomous food-delivery robots in partnership with Yelp | Fledgling robotics startup Marble has announced its first public-facing partnership, one that will see food delivered to hungry San Franciscans via a little ground-based autonomous drone.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Marble has been buzz... |
| Apr 9, 2017 | When the robots take over, will there be jobs left for us? | By every measure, our country is on the road to becoming an AUTOMATION NATION. Our Money Issue Cover Story comes from David Pogue of Yahoo Finance:
Tony Hughes has been a long-haul truck driver for more than 20 years. But today, all he has ... |
| Mar 31, 2017 | Soon your pizza will be ordered, made, and delivered through robots | In the not-too-distant future, your pizza will be ordered through robots, made by robots, and delivered by robots.
Earlier this week, Domino’s revealed a new pilot project in a handful of Dutch and German cities that uses automated ground d... |
| Mar 31, 2017 | Soon your pizza will be ordered, made, and delivered through robots | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In the not-too-distant future, your pizza will be ordered through robots, made by robots, and delivered by robots.
Earlier this week, D... |
| Mar 29, 2017 | Domino’s taps Starship Technologies to deliver pizzas with autonomous ground drones | Pizza giant Domino’s is the latest company to jump on the drone-delivery bandwagon with the news that it has signed a deal with Starship Technologies, the robotics startup created by Skype’s founders.
Starship Technologies has been testing ... |
| Mar 29, 2017 | Domino’s taps Starship Technologies to deliver pizzas with autonomous ground drones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Pizza giant Domino’s is the latest company to jump on the drone-delivery bandwagon with the news that it has signed a deal with Starshi... |
| Mar 9, 2017 | ‘Robots for restaurants’ startup Chowbotics raises $5 million from Techstars Ventures, Foundry Group, others | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Chowbotics, a startup that’s building robots to help with food prep, has raised $5 million from Techstars Ventures, Foundry Group, Galv... |
| Mar 9, 2017 | ‘Robots for restaurants’ startup Chowbotics raises $5 million from Techstars Ventures, Foundry Group, others | Chowbotics, a startup that’s building robots to help with food prep, has raised $5 million from Techstars Ventures, Foundry Group, Galvanize Ventures, and the Geekdom Fund.
Founded out of San Jose, California in 2014, Chowbotics has hithert... |
| Oct 24, 2016 | Drone pizza delivery is just the tip of the robotic restaurant revolution | Originally Published by:
The next time you open the door to find the pizza you ordered (via an app of course), you may not find a delivery person standing on your doorstep.
Expect to see a drone dropping off your dinner. And perhaps that di... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Pizza-Making Robots Prepare Fresh Pies That Continue Baking On The Way To Consumers On This New Food Delivery Vehicle | Lauren Keating, Tech Times 29 September 2016, 12:09 pm
When a foodie has a craving for pizza, they are often faced with two problems: either the cheese sticks to the top of the box because the delivery guy is a bit too reckless, or they are... |
| Sep 1, 2016 | Robots and on-board ovens deliver on Zume’s promise of better pizza | There was once a time when the Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust pizza was enough to get people excited.
Today, in a world of bacon-wrapped crust and custom-modified Chevys with pizza warmers, being excited about pizza is just not as easy as it used ... |
| Jun 28, 2016 | This Startup Wants Godless Robots to Make All Your Pizza | Imagine this:
You and your lover are gently drifting down the canals of Venice without a care in the world. The gondola—piloted by Robo-seppe, a kindly automaton with the eyes of a robot half his age—cuts through the water with the precisio... |
