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Xeneta makes a splash with $80M on a $265M valuation to scale its crowdsourced sea and air freight analytics
The wheels of global commerce continue to turn, through wars, pandemics and economic downturns; and today a startup taking a new tech approach to improve the workings of one of the more antiquated asp
99 Counties taps regenerative agriculture trend for meat marketplace
The company is creating a marketplace connecting local, regenerative farms in the 99 counties of Iowa to consumers purchasing boxes of beef, pork and poultry.
New capital fuels Purely Elizabeth’s next natural food phase
The company is going after an increasingly crowded global health and wellness food market that was valued at $733.1 billion in 2020 and is poised to reach $1 trillion by 2026.
As e-commerce booms during the pandemic, Shopify accelerates
Despite the economic disruptions associated with the coronavirus pandemic, cloud vendors are holding up well as many client companies and their employees work from home. With stores closed, it’s nat
Online learning marketplace Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse
The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging that to deliver educational content has raised some funding
Kite Hill, co-founded by the creator of Impossible Foods, looks to be gaining traction, too
Before he founded the plant-based burger company Impossible Foods, Patrick Brown, who spent 25 years as a biochemistry professor at Stanford, also co-founded a Hayward, Ca.-based food company called K
Starbucks will anchor the new $400 million food-focused Valor Siren Ventures fund
Starbucks is serving up a steaming hot $100 million cash commitment to anchor a new food-focused fund in partnership with the consumer and tech-focused focused private equity firm Valor Equity Partner
Food exec John Foraker, long the CEO of Annie’s, has a new, ‘stealth’ organic food startup
John Foraker, who led the well-known organic food brand Annie's for 17 years, is working on a new organic food startup in Berkeley. General Mills bought Annie’s for $820 million in 2014. Foraker was
General Mills Enters Tech News Space With Forced Acquisition of CrunchGear
Hello CrunchGear Readers! On behalf of Kendall J. Powell and the entire General Mills team I’m proud to announce that CrunchGear, TechCrunch’s former tech blog, is now a wholly-owned subsi