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Food Startup Hungryroot Scores $7.7M Series A
Investments // January 27, 2017

Founded in 2015, healthy meal kit food startup Hungryroot is going after Big Food in a big way. The startup is looking to innovate the comfort food market by making guilty pleasures guilt-free. Given the latest round of funding, it looks like investors can smell...

Grocery Tracker: Walmart’s And Amazon’s Concepts
Retail // December 08, 2016

Starting off on a positive note, data shows that the online grocery sector saw a huge sales boost during Thanksgiving. While a grocery sales boost is to be expected during the holiday for excessive eating (and subsequent, sleepy regret), it’s the “online” qualifier that’s got...

Big Food Offers Quick And Easy Meals
Retail // December 06, 2016

Meal-kit startups for quick and easy meals are facing fresh competition from Big Food. Tyson Foods Inc., Campbell’s and Hershey Co. are all reportedly in talks with online couriers to break into the meal-kit market — shipping packages of fresh, organic and locally sourced ingredients...

Kellogg’s Breakfast Council Gaffe
Retail // November 28, 2016

Product placement, sponsored content and influencer marketing are hardly new phenomena as the advertising world works nonstop to keep pace with the internet. Disclosure of sponsored content isn’t difficult. It’s as simple as adding a “sponsored content” tag on a blog post, an adequately transparent...

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Food Startup Hungryroot Scores $7.7M Series A

January 27, 2017
Founded in 2015, healthy meal kit food startup Hungryroot is going after Big Food in a big way. The startup is looking to innovate the comfort food market by making guilty pleasures guilt-free. Given the latest round of funding, it looks like investors can smell what Hungryroot is cooking. Just recently, Hungryroot raised another $7.7 […]