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Avi Jacoby and the art of making room
An Air Force veteran with an architecture degree and an oil-painting practice, Avi “Jack” Jacoby brings an unusual range of experience to Fabric. His work in robotic fulfillment turns on a practical question: how much can fit into the space you already have?
The Restaurant That Learned to Travel Without Opening a Restaurant
All Day Kitchens tried to make a neighborhood favorite available across town by putting its food in small satellite kitchens. The idea was clever; the price of running the network was real.
The Seven-Minute Avocado and the Billion-Dollar Question
Food Rocket promised groceries before impatience could become a plan. For two years, it made the corner store feel obsolete - then discovered that speed, like champagne, is delightful precisely because somebody is paying dearly for it.
Mir Aamir Has Spent 30 Years Teaching Grocery Stores to Think
From Safeway loyalty cards to ShopBots behind Whole Foods, Mir Aamir has followed one stubborn question across three decades: can convenience work for the shopper without breaking the grocer's economics?
Fulfil
Fulfil (Fulfil Solutions) is a Mountain View robotics company building a fully automated grocery pick-and-pack system. Its ShopBot robots handle every grocery category and temperature state - produce, refrigerated, frozen - with item-level tracking powered by AI, computer vision and sensor fusion. The goal is to make online grocery, a famously unprofitable business, actually pencil out for retailers while cutting food waste. Fulfil emerged from stealth in February 2023 with $60M in Series B funding and powers Save Mart's Lucky Now same-day delivery service.