Funding Details
- Awarder
- Inbox
- Date Award
- May 20, 2025
- Vertical
- Food Technology
- Funding URL
- View Funding Page
Company Info
- Founding Year
- 2012
- Traction
- Proven effective at reducing spoilage for dozens of produce categories and partnerships with smallholder farmers to large food brands.
- Organizations Involved
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Company Description
- Apeel Sciences is a company that's fighting the global food waste crisis by utilizing nature's tools to prevent waste in the first place - a sustainable approach to the world's growing food demands. The company's plant-derived technology helps USDA Organic Certified and conventional fresh food growers, suppliers, and retailers improve produce quality and extend shelf life, which minimizes food waste from the farm to the retail shelf to the kitchen.
- Market
- Fresh Produce
- Location
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USA
- Coinvestors
- S2G Ventures, Viking Global Investors, GIC, Rock Creek Group, Tao Capital Partners, Upfront Ventures, Astanor Ventures, International Finance Corporation, Temasek
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