Data Snapshot: 2021’s top deals for food waste startups driven by environment & economics
Funding for food waste solutions up and down the supply chain reflects the growing importance of the category for businesses, consumers, and investors alike.
Funding for food waste solutions up and down the supply chain reflects the growing importance of the category for businesses, consumers, and investors alike.
Food retailers need technologies that can automate the supply chain to minimize disruptions and optimize inventory management.
The Series A round led by Collaborative Fund will allow the Boston-based startup to enhance its ‘liquidation platform’ that helps CPG brands reduce food waste.
Americans could generate more than 300 million pounds of food waste this year as Thanksgiving gatherings resume and aspirational shopping abounds. The carbon footprint associated with that waste is the same as driving 169,000 cars for a full year, according to non-profit ReFed.
The US-based company wants to eliminate food waste by turning surplus grocery store inventory into animal feed via a closed-loop upcycling process.
The Food Waste Landscape Market Map, compiled by nonprofit ReFED, spans the entire value chain to help guide the food system with solution implementation.
The new law targets diners and restaurants that leave food uneaten, as well as ‘chibo’ binge-eating challenges livestreamed on social media.
The USDA-backed startup produces vapor-releasing sachets that extend the life of fresh produce when it’s in transit from the farm.
The nonprofit Kroger unit is hoping to address food waste and hunger by supporting startups making novel foods from upcycled ingredients.
TeleSense is partnering with UPL, which will deploy the US startup’s grain storage monitoring tech in an effort to reduce spoilage and waste.
Phood’s back-of-house hardware and software system serves as a measurement tool for kitchen crews to help them figure out exactly what is being wasted.
The New York startup ‘upcycles’ organic compounds from unrecoverable vegetable food waste, generating water-soluble, organic hydroponic nutrients for soilless farms.
To mark International Food Loss & Waste Awareness Day, AFN spoke to three startups who are taking three very different approaches to food waste reduction.
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Phood’s B2B product combines hardware and software to offer back-of-house kitchens and other food outlets a tool to measure food waste with precision.
A new report identifies key technologies to fight food waste at six key points of the food supply chain, including coatings, packaging, and sensors.
Prime Impact Fund led the company’s seed round to support its safe, chemical-free approach to killing crop mold and toxins.
What started as a concept around urban biorefineries to process food waste into fertilizer took a turn when the byproduct proved to be a natural cleaning product.
The effort provides funding to organizations that can rescue food before its wasted and redirect it to individuals in need.
The Swiss company has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from California-based Agroecology Capital, an agtech venture capital firm.
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