In 2016, 41.2 million people lived in food-insecure households in the United States, meaning they were uncertain of having, or unable to acquire enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources...

Guy Weitzman, CEO of Atomation, a startup that uses “smart technology” to connect physical items to the internet, became interested in opening an office in St. Louis more than a year ago. The Israeli native said he saw the good infrastructure that...