food trucks

99 minutos, Mexico’s last mile delivery startup, raises a $40M Series B

In 2014 Alexis Patjane was at a local hookah bar in Mexico City with some friends and the bar ran out of tobacco. They thought maybe they could buy some online and have it delivered to the bar in real

Impossible adds ‘ground pork’ and ‘sausages’ to its lineup of plant-based foods

Impossible Foods made huge waves in the food industry when it came up with a way of isolating and using “heme” molecules from plants to mimic the blood found in animal meat (also comprised

Canters restaurant royalty raises $9.5 million for Ordermark, a takeout order management service

Alex Canter knows the restaurant business. The scion of Los Angeles’ famous first family of the deli business — the owners of the eponymous Canters restaurant — Canter has been in th

Food delivery’s untapped opportunity

Investors may have already placed their orders in the consumer food delivery space, but there's still a missing recipe for solving the over $250 billion business-to-business foodservice distribution

Bird is raising $100 million to become the Uber of electric scooters

“It feels like investing in Uber when it first launched.” That’s what one investor said of the hot new Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup, Bird — an electric scooter company th

Launching Startups The Kogi Way: Three Lessons From The Food Truck Pioneer

Many founders ask me for advice on their latest startup. Of all the things I’ve learned, some of the most compelling tips come from starting a business out of an old truck. When I joined the foundin

ShopKeep Goes Custom, Releasing A Speedy New System For Holiday Shopping

Not to freak everyone out, but there are six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. For shoppers, that means a tighter timeframe in which to negotiate parking lots and mall lines; ac

EAT Club Goes Mobile, Bringing A Food Truck With Mobile Ordering And Payment To San Francisco

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.eatclubsf.com/">EAT Club</a>, which is launching in private beta today, has a unique spin on the way that users get lunch. The service hopes to get rid of all the