$1.6 Billion Invested in Food-Related Tech and Digital Media in 2013

February 3, 2014 by 1 Comment

From 2012-2013, over $2.8 billion was invested in the food/tech/media realm. In 2013, over $1.6 billion was invested into U.S-based private companies through 148 investments– up from $1.2 billion and 136, respectively, in 2012.

The industry continues to grow rapidly. Restaurant-related technology won the most attention from both investors and acquirers with 54 percent of the investments (representing $453.1 million across 76 deals), and 51 percent of M&A activity.

Food and Tech Connect’s infographic illustrates the presence of food in the tech and media industries in 2014.

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CMO, CEO, Chief Innovators are Welcomed to Join Inventours

February 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Inventours is sponsoring events in Paris and Barcelona this summer. Both programs are “process and creativity insights training for executives looking to innovate through exclusive meetings with globally renowned innovators in product design, technology, food, fashion sustainability, architecture, hospitality and retail.” According to the Inventours site:

Paris June 22nd – 27th 2014:

Paris is renowned for its food, fashion, art, architecture, engineering and retail presentations. This highly unusual and insight-generating program will highlight the city’s most cutting edge innovations across the variety of creative disciplines that Paris does best. We’ll view the work and speak to the innovators first-hand in their offices, studios, boutiques, and labs to glean new ways or thinking and organizing for innovation.

Barcelona June 8th – 13th 2014

Barcelona has long been a hotbed of creativity and independent thinking: home of groundbreaking artists Picasso, Miro and Dali, and the brilliantly original, architect Antoni Gaudi. In cuisine, Ferran Adria is considered the most innovative chef in the world in history. In fashion, Desigual, Custo, and Camper are innovators in color, asymmetry, and style. Buildings such as the gold, fish-shaped Arts Hotel, Jean Nouvel’s Torre Agbar, the colored tile roof of Santa Catarina Market, and the Palace of Music, all have made Barcelona a world-class center of architectural innovation. Barcelona shouts with innovative, original, independent design thinking in all creative fields and so it was selected as the perfect city for an InventoursTM innovation inspiration program.

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