Phood offers automated food waste tracking and analytics to help retailers + foodservice operations harness data and prevent up to 50% of waste from ever happening in the first place. Phood users cut costs, maximize profitability and reduce labor...all the while tackling our most actionable solution to climate change.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $2M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Techstars | techstars.... |
| 26.11.2020 | Story Vent... | storyventu... |
| - | The Food F... | thefoodfou... |
| - | MassChalle... | masschalle... |
| - | New Stack ... | newstack.c... |
| - | New Stack ... | newstack.v... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 27.11.2020 | Seed | $2M | - |
Persons 6
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Toby | Johnson | Head of Pr... | linkedin.c... | - | t**y@phood... | - |
| - | Max | Mlinar | Director O... | linkedin.c... | - | m*x@phoods... | - |
| - | Naim | Busek | Chief Tech... | linkedin.c... | - | n**m@phood... | - |
| - | Danielle | Plattus Yo... | Interim Ch... | linkedin.c... | - | d******e@p... | - |
| - | Tran | Nguyen | Marketing ... | linkedin.c... | - | i**o@phood... | - |
| - | Luc | Dang | Chief Exec... | linkedin.c... | - | l*c@phoods... | - |
Mentions in press and media 7
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.07.2021 | Choco raises $100m Series B funding to streamline restaurants’ ingredient purchasing | Buying ingredients is one of the peskiest tasks for restaurants. Order too little and disappoint your guests; order too much and you’re contributing to the global food waste crisis. Getting the industry to abandon its paper-based practices ... |
| 27.11.2020 | Phood raises $2m seed funding to help kitchens monitor food waste | Phood, a startup using artificial intelligence to reduce food waste in the foodservice industry, has raised $2 million in an an oversubscribed seed round co-led by New Stack Ventures and Story Ventures. The New York-based company began its ... |
| 23.11.2020 | Food waste to indoor farming input: Re-Nuble raises $1.1m seed funding | Startups are taking a diversity of approaches to tackle the issue of food waste. Phood is using hardware and software to measure and address waste in restaurant kitchens, while Clean Crop is targeting post-harvest wastage. Ambrosia turned l... |
| 21.08.2020 | Startup Spotlight: Phood is taking the uncertainty out of food waste for kitchens | Food waste has been one of the biggest themes explored by agrifoodtech entrepreneurs and investors in recent years. Images of empty store shelves may convince some that food waste isn’t an issue, but according to one founder that is far fro... |
| 29.05.2019 | Bridge to MassChallenge Taiwan Announces Top 14 Startups | TAIPEI, TAIWAN - Bridge to MassChallenge Taiwan, an international startup competition that identifies and accelerates the top healthcare, high tech, clean tech, and social impact startups in the world, announced the 14 startups that will ... |
| 10.04.2019 | Bridge to MassChallenge Taiwan Announces Top 27 Startups | BOSTON, MA – Bridge to MassChallenge Taiwan, an international startup competition that identifies and accelerates the top healthcare, high tech, clean tech, and social impact startups in the world, announced today the 27 startups that wil... |
| 27.03.2017 | Go to Downtown Brooklyn’s version of ‘Shark Tank’ this week | This Wednesday check out the Make It In Brooklyn pitch competition, featuring a panel of local celebrity judges and five Brooklyn-based food startups. Each of the startups will have two minutes to pitch the panel on their idea, with the jud... |