Hitting its $2 million target via 1,475 individual investors during a four-month campaign on StartEngine, Blendid has now raised a total of $20 million in investment through a combination of traditional venture capital, strategic investors and crowdfunding.

Blendid announces expansion plans to two new geographic areas starting in Q3 2021. Building on the success of their Northern California locations in retail stores and universities, Blendid has selected the Southern California and Atlanta, Georgia regions for their next two regions of concentration.

What do you get when you blend robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence with fresh fruits and juices? A futuristic concept that’s already expanding into more markets.

Automation will bring a number of benefits to food management operations in the post-pandemic world.

AI-powered robots will bring the future of highly personalized, healthy, fresh, and delicious food options to life.

The future of fresh, fast food is in robotics. In the not-so-distant future, robotic food automation systems will line the checkout areas and hallways of our major retailers, food courts, airport terminals, hospitals and universities.

Quick serve is going to the robots thanks to these new machines. Here’s why humans stand a chance.

As a young man, Vipin Jain, now the CEO and co-founder of Blendid, was fascinated by a piece of equipment on Star Trek called a replicator. In this futuristic piece of fiction, you could make food from energy without other ingredients. It was a pretty quick way to cook and, of course, no need to clean up. Not a bad idea with only one drawback, of course: It wasn’t real.

Smoothie making can be so messy and time consuming that it’s usually easier to leave all the washing, peeling, slicing, and blending to someone else. Or, in Jamba’s case, something else.