Category: Food Waste
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Jay Lee and Springhouse want to help us figure out what’s for dinner. Not only that, but they want to do so by keeping an up-to-date inventory of what’s in our fridge, so we can plan around the food we already have and know what we may need to run to the store for, or…
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Apeel, a maker of produce life-extension technology, announced this week that it is suing an online influencer who had spread misinformation about the company’s product for the last two years. The company, which earned early recognition in the food waste innovation space for its non-toxic, plant-based coating that helps extend the shelf life of vegetables…
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At this year’s ReFED Summit in Seattle, Andrew Shakman was in a reflective mood. When asked about the state of the food waste reduction movement, the Leanpath CEO, who has spent more than two decades fighting food waste, compared the moment we’re in to the second act of a three-act play. “If we go back…
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In 2018, when I saw a company called Silo launch a crowdfunding campaign for a modern food storage system – essentially Tupperware for the digital age – I couldn’t resist. I pulled out my credit card and backed it. Little did I know it would take nearly a decade for the product to show up…
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It’s a mystery (kinda). While traditional venture and strategic capital haven’t shown much enthusiasm for backing food waste-fighting technology, the category is thriving on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Two current campaigns, in particular, are crushing it, blowing past their initial funding targets with weeks still to go. First up is the Shelfy Lite, the second fridge…
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Today, food recycler startup Mill disclosed (via Axios, scoop by my ex-Gigaom colleague Katie Fehrenbacher) that it has reached $20 million in trailing 12-month revenue. It also announced it is launching a new product line extension in Mill for Workplace. The company, which makes a home food recycler, made headlines when it launched over two…
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If you follow the world of kitchen and consumer food tech startups, you know there hasn’t been much in the way of venture-funded startups targeting food waste in the home. That changed last year when Mill lifted the veil on the company and its first product, the Mill Bin, a smart food recycler. The company’s…
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Last week, Mill unveiled its second-generation appliance, one year after introducing its high-tech food waste bin (don’t call it a composter!). The news comes as the company reaches ten thousand customers and claims it has helped divert one million pounds of food waste from landfills. Both the first and second generation Mill turn food waste…
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Ty Thompson and the rest of the Ovie team recently passed a major milestone: They shipped their first hardware product. The product, a consumer food waste management system, was over half a decade in the making. Along the way to market, the founding team faced numerous challenges around funding, finalizing the product concept and design,…
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It’s been just over a year since the Mill, the company behind a high-tech home food waste bin, was announced to the public. The company, which made an initial splash with a unique waste-to-chicken feed service and a management team with impressive smart home pedigrees, has spent much of the past year shipping to initial…
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Since I first saw the Ovie team standing in a small booth in the bottom floor of the Sands Convention Center during CES 2018, I’ve been following them to see if this group of founders could bring their vision for a smart food tracker to life. The team, which at that time consisted of Ty…
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Last week, Mill, a company that makes a kitchen scrap upcycling appliance, announced that a standards group had voted to approve a new ingredient feed definition, effectively giving a thumbs up to the output produced by the Mill appliance. According to the announcement, the ingredient definition committee of the Association of American Feed Control Officials…
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