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OneThird - food waste prevention
by: Startacus Admin ~ 6th February 2023
The lowdown on OneThird, the foodtech startup that's tackling food waste via its innovative solution for predicting the shelf life of fresh produce.
According to the World Food Programme, a staggering one-third of all food produced globally goes to waste. Financially, this amounts to $1 trillion every year - 1.3 billion tonnes. If those numbers didn’t look bad enough, there’s also t...
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MyGug - the startup that's turning food waste into energy
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th December 2022
Cork-based agritech startup MyGug and its innovative and climate-friendly solution to the challenge of food waste.
As a society, we are becoming more and more environmentally conscious, and taking more care in sorting the things we throw away into what can be recycled, what can be taken to a charity shop, what could be upcycled, perhaps, etc. But something that people have always been conscious...
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Startup of the Week - Kitche
by: Startacus Admin ~ 29th April 2020
Kitche is an app that aims to make you waste less food and save more money...
Let’s face it - food waste is not just an issue for the big players - the supermarkets and the restaurant chains. In fact, our startup-of-the-week from last week Cogz is also tackling food waste directly... It’s been said that the average UK household discards about £70 of food every month too. ...
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Winnow uses AI to address food waste
by: Startacus Admin ~ 8th September 2019Winnow develop AI tools to help chefs run more profitable, sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste. Here's how...
Many of us grew up being cajoled into eating all our vegetables or cleaning our plates because there were starving children and adults who were a lot less fortunate than us. It might have seemed like a parenting cliche to teach us about appreciating what we have, however it would b...
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Too Good To Go raises further €6m to keep fighting food waste everywhere
by: Startacus Admin ~ 6th February 2019Food waste app Too Good To Go, an app that connects users to stores that have unsold, surplus food, has announced that it has raised a further €6m in funding to accelerate its mission to eliminate food waste globally, taking its total investment to €16m.
The new investment will fuel growth in four new countries this year, to reach a projected total of 100 million meals r...
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Startup of the Week - Oddbox
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th January 2018Over the last few years, we’ve all become increasingly aware of the extent of food waste in the UK and the serious problem it has become. As with all such problems, there is an inherent need for us all to do what we can to find a solution.
Step forward therefore our latest startup of the week which is on a mission to do just that by proactively fighting food waste.
Oddbox is a London based...
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