We all know that eating healthy is better for you—and that following that advice is far harder than it sounds, for a multitude of reasons, from culture to preferences to access and affordability. And yet the reality is...

The spike in online ordering and food delivery—a trend that’s particularly relevant now—is evidence of how tech is fundamentally changing how and what we eat. Is this the end of the traditional restaurant exper...

It’s clear that all kinds of commerce companies and consumer products have been disrupted — or enabled — by tech. Yet for certain categories, like consumer packaged goods (CPG), it seems like tech hasn&...

It’s surprising that how (and what) we eat has actually changed very little over the ages, despite how much we’ve advanced as a species. Now, however — driven by globalization, environmental factors, and ot...

Humans have always wanted to enhance themselves — from getting nutrition just-right to optimizing their performance, whether in sports or health or work. And food is a big part of all that.

Nature is the ultimate complex system, of course — but with today’s technology, it’s now provided us with an “incredible toolkit” of different molecules that material scientists can treat l...

You’ve heard the numbers or some statistic like this: By the year 2050, we’ll need to feed 9.7 billion humans on the planet. Our current production and meat-making methods — growing crops to feed to animals to ...

‘Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.’ – Hippocrates

Since Marc Andreessen declared it 10 years ago software has eaten so much of the world — transportation, real estate, communication, banking, and more. Yet the agriculture industry (the stuff we actually eat!) has larg...

The new discipline of bioengineering is going to dramatically impact how we produce and consume our food. The petroleum era ushered in many of the marquee companies and manufacturing processes of our generation – names...

Editor’s note: Quartz asked some of the boldest thinkers how they envision the future for their The World in 50 Years series, with various experts across fields answering questions about the future of work and the ...

Andreessen Horowitz is partnering with Snackpass for its Series A, where we’ll be working with co-founders Kevin Tan, Jamie Marshall, and Jonathan Cameron. The company was built from their dorm rooms with the goal of l...

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Soylent’s mission is to use cutting-edge science and engineering to create nutritious food that is convenient and affordable to everyone in the world. We hope that Soylent will one day be a staple in every home —�...