Food Waste

Afresh Secures $115M in Series B Funding and Rolls Out its Fresh Food Preservation Technology to Thousands of Stores Across the US

August 5, 2022 Afresh

Afresh, the leading AI-powered fresh food technology provider, today announced a $115 million Series B funding round led by Spark Capital and with participation from Insight Partners, VMG Partners, and Bright Pixel Capital. Afresh will use the investment to scale across thousands more stores and expand the footprint of its Fresh Operating System, an efficient, flexible solution for forecasting, inventory, ordering, and store operations, to support new fresh categories like meat and bakery. …

Save Foods Prepares for Successful Citrus Season in Turkey

July 28, 2022 Save Foods

Save Foods, Inc., an agri-food tech company specializing in eco crop protection that helps to reduce food waste and ensure food safety, today announced preparations are underway for a successful 2022-2023 citrus season in Turkey, beginning in September. …

Opportunity Mapping for Horticultural Waste Streams

May 13, 2022 Vineland Research and Innovation Centre

Approximately 74% of Canadian fruits and vegetables are wasted before they reach consumers for a myriad of reasons.  To tackle this issue and help increase the industry’s environmental sustainability, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre (Vineland) examined underutilized waste streams for the top seven Canadian produce crops including potatoes, apples, field tomatoes, greenhouse tomatoes, greenhouse cucumbers, onions and carrots and identified the range of opportunities for managing these by-products. …

Flashfood Raises $12.3M Series A to Scale Grocery Partnerships Throughout the U.S. to Tackle Retail Food Waste

March 7, 2022 Flashfood

Flashfood, a mobile marketplace providing customers access to heavily discounted food nearing its best-by date, announced $12.3M in Series A funding led by investor S2G Ventures. …

SpartanNash Expands Partnership with Flashfood to Further Reduce Food Waste and Grocery Bills for Families

February 10, 2022 SpartanNash

Food solutions company SpartanNash announced the expansion of its partnership with food waste reduction company Flashfood with the addition of 44 Family Fare and VG’s Grocery store locations throughout Michigan, Iowa and Nebraska. SpartanNash was the first company to introduce Flashfood in Michigan and Indiana through its pilot program at Family Fare and Martin’s Super Markets. The latest expansion brings the first-ever Flashfood locations to stores in Nebraska and Iowa. …