Category: Waste Reduction
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London startup, Tenzo, this week announced a $1.8 million funding round for their AI-powered restaurant analytics platform, according to news from VentureBeat. The round was led by S28 Capital, with participating from Acequia Capital and Force Over Mass. Tenzo, the brainchild of longtime friends Adam Taylor and Christian Mouysset, is an algorithm-based system that analyzes…
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Electrolux announced today that is has partnered with startup (and fellow Swedes) Karma to create a new smart refrigerator that helps grocery stores fight food waste. As my colleague Catherine Lamb wrote this past summer, “Karma is a mobile app that helps retailers sell excess food to consumers at super-reduced prices. The only rules are…
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Come the end of November, Brooklynites will be able to buy their food without adding any additional packaging waste to the world, when Precycle, the borough’s first-ever zero-waste grocery store, opens. When we wrote about the concept back in April, covering a grocery store in Amsterdam that claimed to be “the world’s first plastic-free pop-up…
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If you’ve ever tried your hand at home juicing — or watched a local spot make you juice to order — you probably noticed that a lot of pulp gets left behind. Some larger juiceries have partners that can take the pulp to use for animal feed or compost, but many smaller juiceries end up…
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Last week at the Smart Kitchen Summit, Israeli startup Silo unveiled its smart kitchen storage solution which combines vacuum seal tech with specialized plastic containers and Amazon Alexa. Check out the video below to see it in action. This week, the company launched their Kickstarter, reaching their $80,000 goal in 22 hours. Early backers can get…
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For brick-and-mortar grocery stores, fresh food is a double-edged sword. It’s one of the main reasons that customers still prefer food shopping in physical stores instead of online, but it also spoils quickly and can end up costing retailers some serious dough. In 2017, Matt Schwartz founded Afresh Technologies to try and solve this conundrum. Based in…
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This week Israeli startup Wasteless raised a $2 million Series A round, led by Slingshot Ventures with participation from several angel investors (h/t Agfunder). The company closed a $400,000 seed round in 2017, which, with their new capital, brings their total funds raised to $2.6 million. Founded in 2016, Wasteless fights food waste on the retail…
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When Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams realized he was headed towards blindness caused by diabetes, he turned to a treatment you buy from a grocery store, not a pharmacy: his food. He switched from the typical “American” diet, heavy on the meat, to a plant-based one, and within the span of just a few weeks…
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Today at the Smart Kitchen Summit, a new kitchen hardware company emerged from stealth mode. Silo makes a countertop vacuum-sealer system they claim will keep food fresh up to five times longer than your average plastic container. The system consists of a vacuum base and a set of plastic containers, and integrates with Alexa. Founder Tal…
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This morning, Food-X announced the startups chosen to participate in Cohort 8 of its food innovation accelerator. The NYC-based program, which has operated since 2014, is one of the most popular food startup accelerators in the world, and also one that supports a wide range of business types up and down the food chain. Just…
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Earlier today Farmshelf CEO Andrew Shearer announced on Linkedin that the new Upper West Side location of Oath Pizza, set to open this Thursday, will feature one of their indoor growing units. Farmshelf builds turnkey hydroponic mini-farms, about the size of a bookshelf, for use in restaurants and hotels. Their systems are equipped with sensors which can automatically…
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Of all the details crammed into last week’s monster press release about Starbucks’ “Greener Stores” project, one in particular sticks out: that the coffee giant will open-source this new initiative in the hopes that other retailers will take similar steps to create “a new standard for green retail.” Making retail greener isn’t a particularly new topic,…
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