Azoti helps buyers connect to local food sources. Based in Columbus, the startup works with small farms to supply discounted fresh produce to employees of schools, civic organizations, and major employers like OhioHealth. Dave Ranallo started the company in 2012. He's an Ohio native who grew up eating fresh fruits and vegetables from his grandparents’ garden. More
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Azoti Helps Farmers Sell and Consumers Eat Better
Davos 2015: frog’s President Andrew Zimmermann on Eliminating Food Waste
American food writer Andrew Zimmerman talks with Hub Culture at the World Economic Forum Davos 2015 about a British study on the ability of technology to aid in the production of food and help eliminate waste. More
Internet Grocery Shopping Meets the Sharing Economy
San Francisco-based startup Instacart is hoping to trump services like AmazonFresh, Peapod, and FreshDirect in the battle to deliver fresh food to your door. But unlike those bigger players, Instacart uses the tactics of the maturing sharing economy. The online grocery startup aims to deliver the same experience we now expect from sharing-economy darlings like Uber and Airbnb. More
Seeing the Business Opportunity in Malnutrition
Leave it to a technology innovators’ conference to frame the relief of global malnutrition as a business opportunity. Other sessions at this week’s Techonomy meeting in Tucson described how technology is transforming developing communities and how mobile devices are already ubiquitous in Africa. But Steve Collins, an MD from Ireland devoted to improving nutrition in Africa, says think of it this way: People unaffected by irreversible brain damage—often the effect of malnutrition in infancy—are more likely consumers of technology. More
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