Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory. Working exclusively at the manufacturing plant or distribution center level, Spoiler Alert offers a best-in-class B2B sales platform that enables food & beverage brands to manage their closeouts, discounted sales, and/or liquidation processes to a private network of discount retailers and nonprofit channels - with a heavy focus on maximizing value recovery, strengthening customer relationships, and increasing the effectiveness of supply chain managers tasked with handling these typically manual sales processes. Founded by alumni of MIT, Spoiler Alert works with some of the world's largest brands, including Campbell's, HelloFresh, and KeHE Distributors, along with a growing network of discount channels committed to increasing affordable food access.
Location: United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +1 617-917-4123
Total raised: $2.5M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 3
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 16.11.2016 | Seed | $2.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.05.2017 | How To Find The Best Support For Your Food & Ag Startup | Editor’s Note: Sarah Nolet is founder and CEO of food and agtech consultancy AgThentic. Here she offers startups advice on how to navigate the growing number of resources for food and agtech startups. Over the past few years, there has been... |
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| 17.11.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Gene-editing, Food Waste, Insects, Algae, Impact, Biotech, Farmland, more | Spoiler Alert, a startup helping food businesses and farms manage their unsold produce, closed a $2.5 million seed round with sustainable ag investment firm Fresh Source Capital, multi-industry seed stage investor LaunchCapital, the Fink Fa... |
| 16.11.2016 | Spoiler Alert raises $2.5 million to stop food waste, abate hunger | Spoiler Alert has raised $2.5 million for enterprise software that helps manufacturers and farms put excess food inventory to good use, instead of tossing it out. Since it was founded in 2015, the Boston-based startup has been working with ... |
| 16.11.2016 | 'Spoiler Alert' Raises $2.5M Seed for a Food Waste Solution | Spoiler Alert, a Boston startup whose technology helps food businesses use their unsold inventory for good and prevent food waste, announced Wednesday morning that it's closed $2.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Acre Venture ... |
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| 26.05.2016 | Magic Pens, Goliath Defiers, & More at Techstars Boston Demo Day | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints [Updated 6/6/16, 11:29 a.m. See below.] Beneath the carefully rehearsed pitches, corny one-liners, and overall pomp and circumstance at Techstars Boston’s 10th demo day Wednes... |
| 02.05.2016 | Green Entrepreneurship: Trends and Startups To Watch | The evolving social entrepreneurship field has given a major boost to another massive trend on the scene – green entrepreneurship. Startups aimed at solving the world’s greatest environmental problems are blossoming worldwide with the activ... |
| 06.07.2015 | Spoiler Alert App Makes Donating Surplus Food As Easy As Tossing It In A Dumpster | Spoiler Alert is an app that wants to put itself out of business. That’s unlikely to happen considering the enormity of the problem—food waste—the startup is tackling. Its founders, recent MIT Sloan graduates Emily Malina and Ricky Ashenfel... |
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