Categorie: food

OrderAhead, The Mobile Ordering Platform Backed By $2.5M From Adam D’Angelo & More, Launches In LA; Orders Rise 2.4x

food, mobile, OrderAhead, ordering, restaurants, scheduling, social, Startups, TC

Screen shot 2012-12-10 at 11.42.46 AMBack in August, we introduced you to OrderAhead, a Y Combinator grad and mobile ordering solution that had just raised $2.3 million from Facebook co-founder Adam D’Angelo, Ignition Partners, Matrix Partners, Menlo Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors and SV Angel, among others. Today, along with some strong growth trends seen over the last few months, the startup is announcing that it has added to that number, bringing its total investment to $2.5 million, thanks to an additional $200K raised from Red Swan Ventures, the relatively new VC firm started by the Bonobos founders.

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As Recipe Sharing On Pinterest Explodes, Foodily Revamps To Focus On Social

apps, food, foodily, recipes, social, Startups, TC

Foodily 2.0 FeedFoodily, a startup that began as a recipe search site before arriving on iPhone in late 2011, is today rolling out a major revamp of its user interface that puts even more emphasis on social interactions. The company is calling the combination of new features the “Food With Friends” experience, and it’s something that’s clearly been inspired in other trends in the social networking space, including those on Pinterest, Twitter and Quora.

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Feeding the World Sustainably: Agroecology vs. Industrial Agriculture

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There are currently 1 billion people in the world today who are hungry. There’s also another billion people who over eat unhealthy foods. Food production around the world today is mostly done through industrial agriculture, and by judging the world’s current situation with obesity issues, worldwide food shortages, and the destruction of soil, it may […]

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Grubwithus Served $5M By GRP, Michel Daher To Take Its Social Dining Global

dining network, food, Fundings & Exits, grubwithus, restaurants, social, Startups, TC

Screen shot 2012-05-30 at 7.16.16 AMGrubwithus, the social dining network and 2011 Y Combinator grad, announced today that it has secured $5 million in new funding to snack on, led by GRP Partners with contribution from Lebanese entrepreneur Michel Daher, who is best known as the founder of Daher Foods and its Master Chips and Poppins cereal brands, two of the largest consumer packaged goods brands in the MENA region.

The startup’s series A round follows the $1.6 million in seed funding it raised this time last year from a slew of prominent investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, NEA, SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher, Yuri Milner, Matt Cutts, Paul Buchheit, Alexis Ohanian, and Start Fund — to name a few. As a result of the new round, GRP Partner Mark Suster will be joining the startup’s board of directors.

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