Chito Peppler served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy, but lately he has traded his uniform for the casual dress of the entrepreneur. “After serving in the military, I wanted to start my own business. I knew how to take orders – now I wanted to be able to make them,” says Peppler. Peppler’s…
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Not only can you have your cake and eat it too, you can feed the less fortunate in the process. By purchasing a $14 monthly membership, you get an assortment of five gourmet snacks (e.g.artisan chocolate, Asian jerky, truffles, etc.) and Love With Food will donate a meal to No Kid Hungry on your behalf. To date, Love…
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What if food experts reviewed the best restaurants in your city and gave you a discount? Blackboard Eats is doing just that in LA, NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco, with plans to launch a new city in the spring of 2012. “Don’t consider us a deal site; instead an intersection between motivating perks and journalism,”…
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A new site designed to make that tough decision of where to eat tonight a bit easier for restaurant-goers and food lovers has launched in DC. From the Food Network, the reservation site CityEats is partnering with Graffiato’s Chef/Owner, Mike Isabella, and competing directly with OpenTable. CityEats’ innovative cloud-based technology attempts to make reservations easy…
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Winners of DC’s Startup Weekend, Weekly Eats are ones to keep your eye on. Not only did they claim the top spot in the capital’s weekend competition in late November – they were the highest placing US team in the recent Global Startup Battle. Here’s the pitch: When you have zero food in the fridge,…
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Saving the world ain’t easy, just ask anyone who plays Half-Life. Neither is destroying it, as anyone who plays Grand Theft Auto can attest. Whether you’re vowing your efforts for the side of good or evil, one fact remains constant: serious, all-night gaming requires serious, all-night energy. That’s why GamerFood has created an array of…
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When I was offered my first job, the HR manager sent me home with a printed copy of the week’s gourmet lunches – as if that alone would entice me to accept his offer. ZeroCater, a Y Combinator graduate based in San Francisco, is trying to convince other companies that they should feed their employees,…
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Catching on to the explosive growth of foodie culture and the pursuit of all things food, Chicago-based startup CookItFor.Us has positioned itself as a different kind of food website – one of action, purchase and discovery. Their online platform links “Cravers,” those who would like a recipe made for them, and “Makers,” the licensed chefs,…
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Three NYC-based, entertainment-related startups we have covered previously – 2 focus on food and drinks, 1 focuses on social TV watching – shared some fun updates with me over the past month: BiteHunter, which we covered in April when they demo’d at Tech Cocktail NYC, launched its second mobile app to add a few user-requested…
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Nothing says “I’m hungry” quite like the ravenous sound of “OM NOM NOM NOM.” Coined by Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster, I think we’ve all been guilty of obnoxiously exclaiming this phrase at least once or twice after finally satiating a major case of the munchies. Aptly-named Omnom.com is a new delivery menu search engine that’s…
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Hungry for Mexican? What about pizza, sushi, or kebabs? Baltimore-based startup LocalUp Solutions, which I covered back in June, has just announced the launch of their newest online food ordering site on their home turf. EatBmore.com features listings and menus for more than 150 local restaurants, a premium advertising platform for local restaurants, and an…
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Mobile distribution efforts to bring fruits and vegetables to food deserts have been a repeatedly-tried solution for bringing healthy food into the hands of those who need it. The recent trend with food businesses is to go mobile, with food trucks popping up on every street corner. For food justice advocates, that means filling school buses,…
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Earlier this month, we asked, “Is 2011 the Year of Recipe Sites?” It must be so because, just a few weeks later, we have yet another recipe site to tell our readers about. Feastie is a new recipe search engine that scours food blogs and websites to help you find healthy, tasty and budget-friendly recipes….
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Angel-funded New York City startup Appetude has a plan – and part of that plan involves giving data to their competitors. More specifically, Appetude is contributing to OpenMenu, an open database of menus updated by restaurants. “We’re all innovating in food tech. Even if some person is going to compete with us, I still think…
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How many times have you been out at a restaurant and had a hard time trying to figure out what to order? Maybe if you could see what the Chicken Teriyaki Surprise actually looked like on the plate, you’d order it. New iPhone app The MenView, which allows users to take and share pictures of…
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Gojee, a curated recipe site that we covered previously, has raised $1.2 million in seeding funding led by Kapor Capital. This announcement comes less than 3 months after Gojee’s gorgeous site launched to a collective sigh of happiness among foodies. Gojee has also brought on Brad Hunstable, cofounder and president of Ustream, as an advisor….
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More