Food Waste
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The fastest-growing retail tech segment you’re probably ignoring
Retail tech that defies categorization More than 25% of all venture capital in 2022 was directed at climate technology, per PwC’s 2022 State of Climate Tech report. After a slowdown…
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Report: Decarbonizing Commerce: How climate regulation, industry action, and innovation are reshaping retail and consumer products
Climate-driven regulatory, industry, and investment activity focused on retail and consumer products has increased exponentially, and industry action is impacting the customer experience and ways of working as Scope 3 emissions become a bigger focus.
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Study finds dynamic pricing more effective than organic waste bans in reducing food waste in grocery stores
Reducing food waste is a pressing issue for grocery retailers, policymakers, and consumers alike. A recent study by Robert Evan Sanders, published in the Journal of Marketing Research and with the cooperation of Mariano's and Roundy's supermarkets, analyzes the effectiveness of two potential...
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Sprouts 2022 ESG report signals smaller stores
Sprouts Farmers Market, one of the largest and fastest-growing specialty retailers of fresh, natural, and organic food in the US, released its 2022 ESG report, highlighting plans to open smaller stores and findings from its first-ever Scope 3 emissions inventory.
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Peelon
Peelon brings solutions to the gaps in the global food supply chain industry by providing a paten...
Newark, DE
NetZro
NETZRO’s technology and equipment transform food byproducts into upcycled ingredients that reduce...
Minneapolis, MN
Greenpod Labs
Greenpod Labs provides cost-effective post-harvest solutions to extend the shelf life of fruits a...
Chennai, India
Freshflow
Freshflow’s AI gives fresh departments superpowers, placing the perfect order for every product e...
Berlin, Germany
Hippo Harvest
Hippo is a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company that leverages plant science, machine...
Pescadero, CA
FreshInset
Fresh Inset is a technology company that develops a wide range of solutions for extending the pos...
Toruń, Poland
Onethird
Onethird is reducing food loss and waste by giving anyone the power to instantly make smarter dec...
Enschede, NL
Bardee
Bardee transforms food waste into protein and fertiliser with insects
Melbourne, Australia
Planet A Foods
Planet A Foods makes future-proof chocolate using precision fermentation using natural ingredient...
Munich, Germany
CoreZero
CoreZero tackles food waste by accelerating initiatives that work on food waste minimization and ...
Miami, FL
Nabaco
Nabaco's flagship product, NatuWrap®, is a food-safe edible coating that maintains the freshness ...
San Marcos, TX
Ryp Labs
Ryp Labs is a USDA and NSF funded crop and food protection company developing and commercializing...
Kirkland, WA
Clean Crop Technologies
Clean Crop Technologies is translating groundbreaking research on ways to reduce molds, toxins, a...
Holyoke, MA
Strella
Strella's sensors + data predict shelf life to reduce food waste and improve quality
Seattle, WA
Chinova Bioworks
Chinova Bioworks is transforming the food and beverage industry with a natural, clean-label shelf...
Fredericton, Canada
Spoiler Alert
Spoiler Alert removes friction from discounting. With Spoiler Alert, suppliers use online tools t...
Boston, MA
Flashfood
Flashfood operates a marketplace for discounted fresh food items like meat and produce that are n...
Toronto, Canada
TripleW
TripleW upcycles food waste into high-value, high-demand lactic acid, utilizing a climate transfo...
Netanya, Israel
Vericool
Vericool provides high-performing thermal shippers for cold chain products, made from natural ing...
Great Wrap
Great Wrap makes compostable stretch wrap made from food waste
Nitricity
Nitricity combines air, water, and renewable electricity to produce a better, decarbonized soluti...
San Francisco, CA
Full Harvest
Full Harvest is the leading produce business marketplace for all produce grades, including an exp...
San Francisco, CA
Beta Hatch
Beta Hatch is industrializing insect agriculture within a regenerative food system, making protei...
Cashmere, WA
Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go is the app that lets you rescue unsold food at your favorite spots from an untimel...
Copenhagen, Denmark
Olio
Olio is a sharing app for local communities, on a mission to fight waste
London, United Kingdom
Shelf Engine
Shelf Engine uses machine learning to help grocery stores dial in their orders to minimize waste ...
Seattle, WA
CIBO Technologies
CIBO Technologies provides an integrated solution for regenerative agriculture program design and...
St. Louis Park, MN
Kula Bio
Kula Bio provides sustainable nitrogen solutions, helping farmers improve crop yield and reduce e...
Natick, MA
Mori
Mori's all-natural protective layer slows down the spoiling process of fruit, veggies, meats, and...
Boston, MA
Hazel Technologies
With Hazel's suite of technologies, produce stays fresher by 40% while remaining more resilient a...
Chicago, IL
Square Roots
Square Roots provides partners with immediate access to controlled environment agriculture, a key...
Brooklyn, NY
Mill
Mill has created the first home food-recycling service
San Bruno, CA
Divert
Divert creates advanced technology and sustainable infrastructure to prevent wasted food, recover...
Matsmart-Motatos
Matsmart-Motatos sells already produced surplus food, offering online at affordable prices. Its c...
Stockholm, Sweden
Afresh
Purpose-built for fresh foods, Afresh goes beyond traditional demand forecasting and perpetual in...
San Francisco, CA
AgroFresh
AgroFresh offers a solution portfolio that includes plant-based coatings, equipment and proprieta...
Philadelphia, PA
80 Acres Farms
80 Acres Farms makes is capable of producing an abundance of crop varieties year-round, completel...
Hamilton, OH
Motif Foodworks
Motif Foodworks is a food technology company developing ingredients that unleash the promise of p...
Boston, MA
Bowery
Bowery's farms are indoor smart farms teeming with technology that help bring local foods closer ...
New York, NY
Apeel
Apeel makes plant-based protection that helps produce stay fresh for longer
Goleta, CA
Relex Solutions
Relex Solutions' unified supply chain and retail planning platform helps retailers and consumer g...
Helsinki, Finland
Plenty
Plenty operates indoor vertical farms that grow fresh, flavorful, pesticide free greens – all whi...
San Francisco, CA
Rebound Technologies
Rebound Technologies is developing a freeze point suppression refrigeration cycle to increase thr...
Commerce City, CO
easy2Cool
easy2cool paperfloc shipping insulations for shipping fresh or frozen goods are made from 100% re...
Whywaste
Whywaste's suite of digital tools decrease food waste and increase profitability for stores all o...
Gothenburg, SE
Imperfect Foods
Imperfect Foods offers imperfect (yet delicious) produce, affordable pantry items, and quality me...
San Francisco, CA
Neolithics
Neolithics® is an AI agri-tech company leveraging sophisticated food science and advanced technol...
Tel Aviv, Israel
Gander
The first automated mobile platform to sell reduced food before it goes to waste
Isle of Man, United Kingdom
Ida
Ida uses AI to prevent grocery food waste
Paris, France
