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Afresh was named "Freshness Control Solution of the Year" by the AgTech Breakthrough Awards.

Cub Foods is implementing Afresh Technologies’ Fresh Operating System across its store base to sharpen management of fresh food operations.

Minnesota food retailer Cub has rolled out across its corporate stores the Fresh Operating System from Afresh Technologies, a provider of artificial intelligence-powered technology built specifically for fresh categories within grocery.

Afresh Technologies, the leading provider of AI-powered technology built specifically for Fresh categories within grocery stores, announced today the rollout of its Fresh Operating System across CUB stores. After utilizing Afresh's predictive ordering and merchandising solution in select stores, CUB, Minnesota's largest grocery store serving millions of customers each month, quickly recognized significant improvements to inventory turns and product freshness for consumers, material labor efficiencies for store personnel, and a profound reduction in food waste across their supply chain. Read more here.

$115M in Series B funding provides a significant amount of capital to accelerate our vision of a fresher future, preventing millions, then billions, of pounds of food from going to waste along the way.

Afresh's fresh food software platform got a $115 million vote of confidence earlier this month in a Series B round led by Spark Capital.

Afresh was named #1 on Fortune's 100 Best Small Workplaces list.

Afresh, a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to help reduce food waste at grocery stores, has raised $115 in a Series B round led by Spark Capital, according to a press release last week. Walter Robb, senior executive partner at S2G Ventures and former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, participated in the round.

Learn what inspired Afresh co-founders Matt Schwartz, Nathan Fenner and Volodymyr Kuleshov, to create the world's first purpose-built solution for fresh from The Spoon.

Afresh will use the investment to scale across thousands of stores and expand the footprint of its flexible solution for forecasting, inventory, ordering, and store operations.

Afresh Technologies Inc., which makes software that helps grocery stores reduce food waste, raised $115 million in new funding.

Afresh builds grocery retail technology that reduces shrink, prevents food waste, and gives customers fresher perishables. With our $115 million Series B round, Afresh is ready for rocketship growth.

Employees say: “Leadership is extremely transparent about what’s going on with company and where we’re headed, and at the same time provide so much enthusiasm and energy to the people that work for them. Not only are we developing a technology that will save companies millions of dollars, but we are having an even larger impact on decreasing the amount of food that is wasted in the grocery supply chain. That’s incredible!”

Becoming a more sustainable business while maximizing profits is a balancing act today’s grocery retailers are continually challenged to perform. Progressive Grocer reached out to Matt Schwartz, CEO and co-founder of Afresh, to learn how the company’s AI-powered Fresh Operating System can help grocery retailers achieve that balance by reducing food waste in fresh.

Retail is an industry of innovation, constantly changing to meet the demands of customers. That’s why NRF invited Afresh to share how technology advances are transforming the retail industry at The Retail Experience at the 2022 Retail Advocates Summit on July 28.

This year’s winners of the 40 Under 40 Produce Business awards illustrate the strength and depth of the industry’s talent — and each one has demonstrated leadership growth and keen insight into building our industry. Afresh CEO and co-founder Matt Schwartz is honored to receive this award.

If working for a company that has ambitions to change the world is the dream, then the 160-plus employees of Afresh have passed the “living the dream” stage of evolution and moved on to implementing the dream. San Francisco company Afresh, ranked third among small businesses on the Top Workplaces list, is on a mission to “eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all.” It says it is on track to prevent 34 million pounds of food waste by the end of 2022.

Learn how Afresh's culture of innovation drives transformation for the fresh food supply chain in this Q&A with CTO Jeff Kolesky.

Fresh food is a huge growth opportunity in grocery retail, but it's not easy to meet demand for quality or quantity. Browse our infographic to learn more.

Afresh aims to eliminate food waste and increase food access with AI-powered solutions built specifically for the unique challenges in the fresh food supply chain.

Too Good To Go is always eager to share more background on the many creative solutions being used by sustainable companies to fight food waste. For example, how can optimized demand planning help the planet? That’s where Afresh Technologies is disrupting grocery retail for the better. Afresh Technologies offers grocery retailers an operating system built specifically to help them stock fresher food and reduce waste. Too Good to Go recently sat down with their CEO Matt Schwartz, to chat about Afresh’s approach to sustainability, the importance of data, and his thoughts on the future of food.

Keeping bananas, avocados, and berries fresh and full in grocery stores maintains sales, builds basket size, and makes customers happy.

While focused on API performance and scalability as a Full-Stack Software Engineer at Afresh, Harry Kao joined the organization first and foremost to help reverse climate change. Learn more about the motivation underlying his daily work – and its impact on the planet.

Every year, $1 trillion of food gets thrown away, and the cost is much higher in the long run. Read our free ebook to answer questions like: What is food waste; how do we fix the food waste problem; and what can we all do to help keep food out of landfills.

CB Insights has unveiled the winners of the sixth annual AI 100 — a list of the 100 most promising private AI companies across the globe. Afresh was included under the retail industry-specific application.

Afresh is a small but growing startup that's taking on climate change and so far we've helped grocery stores prevent more than 6.9 million total pounds of food waste! Find out what that can do for the planet in our first-ever impact report.

Food waste is a solvable problem, but it will take a village to get there. To shine a light on the important solutions already at work to eliminate food waste, Afresh hosted a webinar with Imperfect Foods, Apeel, and Too Good to Go.

The North America category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors the best world-changing idea overall in North America. Afresh was named Honorable Mention.

With a Ph.D. in Space Science and a career that has spanned startups to tech giants, Director of Machine Learning Lois K. Smith is no stranger to exciting challenges. Still, it wasn’t until she interviewed with Afresh that she learned how she could apply her gift of a love for research to help eliminate food waste.

Food waste happens in every segment of the supply chain, which means we all have a role to play in limiting it. From farms to restaurants, grocery stores and households, there are plenty of opportunities for delicious innovation. On April 27th, Imperfect Foods, Too Good To Go, Afresh and Apeel shared some groundbreaking efforts already at work safeguarding an avocado’s journey from the fields to your fridge. Learn how you can be part of the solution too!

Across the grocery store, fresh teams struggle to prevent food from ending up in the landfill. Read these actionable tips store teams can start using now.

April 27th is Stop Food Waste Day and four companies are banding together for an online discussion to talk about how technology innovation is being used to combat the problem. In the US, 35% of all food is unsold or uneaten, translating to $408 billion in wasted food at a time when 1 in 8 Americans are food insecure. Imperfect Foods, Too Good to Go, Afresh, and Apeel will discuss how stopping food waste can help curb climate change and highlight some of the important work already being done.

Matt Schwartz is CEO of Afresh Technologies and was named to the San Francisco Business Times' 40 Under 40.

AI can enable detailed waste tracking that offers retailers insights into which products they are throwing away and when and why that waste occurs. Technologies that quantify, categorize, and pick up patterns in food waste can help companies optimize their supply and offerings based on data. For example, by using Afresh's AI-based platform, retailers have avoided wasting 6.9 million pounds of food.

Sustainability is a topic grocery retailers know they must address. That is especially important in their fresh departments, where food waste has become a key supply chain challenge. Matt Schwartz, CEO and co-founder of Afresh, explains how the Afresh Fresh Operating System enables fresh teams to champion sustainability, prevent waste, and keep shelves full and fresh, too.

Fresh departments are the most important—and most difficult—to manage and that means stores need top employees that stick around + better training tools for new team members. Fresh-first technology is the right tool for the right job. It helps employees be more effective, drives adherence and retention, and improves employee happiness.

Afresh was founded in 2017 with the mission of eliminating food waste and making fresh food accessible to all. Since then, we’ve learned so much! Here’s a taste of what we’ve uncovered after five years focused on fresh.

Food waste, and particularly waste from fresh meats and vegetables, is a continued drag on grocers’ bottom lines. Afresh CEO Matt Schwartz sits down with Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga of Omni Talk for a special Shoptalk Edition of the their ongoing Spotlight Series to share how his company helps grocers solve this problem.

Grocery stores and supermarkets need tech that makes ordering easy, accurate, and agile everyday, real-time dynamics of perishable fresh foods.

Afresh Customer Success Lead Julia knew she wanted to find value alignment between her work and her personal desire to contribute to climate solutions. Her search led her to find a like-minded community at Afresh that is similarly motivated to leverage their skillsets towards making real change.

Tune in to hear Matt Schwartz, CEO and co-founder of Afresh, discuss how the perimeter of the store is the showpiece, and often the competitive factor in the most successful retailers.

Apples don't grow in boxes with barcodes, so why use a system that treats them like they do? Afresh brings a best-in-class workflow to fresh, improving shelf life, efficiency, and driving sales.

For decades, fresh department employees have dreaded the time-consuming task of placing an order. Although the process has evolved some, store teams want tools that empower their decision-making instead of leaving them behind in the digital dust.

Meet the first group of San Francisco Business Times' 2022 40 Under 40 Honorees, including Afresh CEO Matt Schwartz.

The hurdles, challenges, and successes grocery store employees face are nothing short of remarkable. Celebrate their hard work during Supermarket Employee Day on February 22.

Afresh's commitment to our communities extends beyond our products and technologies. We’re creating a workplace that embraces diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), and where everyone can make an impact while being celebrated for their fully authentic selves.

From blockchain and IoT, to AI and analytics, technology is being harnessed to tackle global food waste, which is now at record highs.

Most tech-enabled grocery retailers rely on ordering solutions that aren’t optimized for perishability, variety, and variability. In order to truly win at fresh, grocers need fresh-first solutions.

Keep out-of-stocks low and customer satisfaction high this Valentine's Day (or any holiday) with orders that meet consumer demand for fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat.

It’s not often that a tech company and a nonprofit have goals that are so closely aligned. Afresh Technologies, Inc., is a San Francisco-based software publisher whose use of artificial intelligence enables grocery retailers to meet customers’ demand for produce. Similarly, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is trying to satisfy the basic human need for nourishment, despite a dearth of volunteers to deliver the goods. So it made sense that Afresh teamed up with the food bank and in November began offering its employees to work on the front lines handing out free staples to hungry families.

Labor shortages have been a problem for grocery stores and supermarkets for years and COVID-19 made those numbers skyrocket. Here’s what to do about it.

Consumers are increasingly pushing for sustainable business practices in retail, driving businesses to reassess what they produce — and how.

Albertsons Companies is set to deploy an AI powered platform from Afresh Technologies across its more than 2,200 supermarkets in 34 US states.The predictive ordering and inventory solutions will help it to optimise fresh food forecasting, inventory, ordering, merchandising and operations.

Grocery retailers will face challenges related to labor and retention, supply and demand, sustainability, and accelerated trends. Win market share with Afresh.

Afresh Fresh Operating System unifies merchandising, forecasting, ordering, and store operations for fresh departments, helping stores take fulfillment to the next level while improving sustainability, sales, and shelf life.

For too long, store teams have been left to rely on guesswork and outdated tooling for fresh orders. Afresh combines AI with your team's expertise to create the Fresh Operating System – a solution built to make fresh the star of your stores.

Afresh transforms your fresh department with powerful AI insights, a best-in-class workflow, reliable security, and effortless scalability – all with minimal IT investment.

Afresh's AI-powered Fresh Operating System will further Albertsons Cos.' commitment to be the best in fresh and reduce food waste.

Albertsons Companies will enhance its fresh offering with Afresh Technologies’ AI-powered predictive ordering and inventory solutions to reduce waste and offer the freshest product for customers. Afresh will help Albertsons Cos.' optimize fresh forecasting, inventory, ordering, merchandising and operations. Afresh Technologies enables Albertsons Cos. to deploy a state-of-the-art AI technology platform in all its stores to further differentiate its fresh offering to customers while helping to reduce food waste, ultimately reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and saving water.

Fresh supply chain specialist Afresh Technologies is partnering with Albertsons to help the retailer reduce waste, increase sales and provide its customers with the freshest foods. Under the deal, all Albertsons banner stores will use Afresh’s Fresh Operating System.

Albertsons Cos. has partnered with Afresh Technologies to use its AI-powered predictive ordering and inventory solutions in an effort to reduce waste and offer the freshest product for customers, the company said. Afresh will help to optimize fresh forecasting, inventory, ordering, merchandising and operations for the Boise, Idaho-based grocer.

Albertsons Companies will enhance its fresh offerings with San Francisco, California-based Afresh Technologies’ AI-powered predictive ordering and inventory solutions to reduce waste and offer the freshest products for customers. Afresh will help Albertsons’ optimize fresh forecasting, inventory, ordering, merchandising and operations.

Albertsons Cos. plans to deploy the Afresh fresh-food optimization platform at its nearly 2,300 stores in 34 states. The artificial intelligence-powered Afresh Fresh Operating System will be used to sharpen fresh department operations across Albertsons Cos. supermarket banners, helping stores reduce shrink, accelerate stock turns to provide shoppers with fresher produce and, in turn, boost sales and profits, the companies said Thursday.

Albertsons Companies will enhance its fresh offering with Afresh Technologies' AI-powered predictive ordering and inventory solutions to reduce waste and offer the freshest product for customers. Afresh will help Albertsons Cos.' optimize fresh forecasting, inventory, ordering, merchandising and operations.

Albertsons Companies will enhance its fresh offerings with Afresh Technologies' AI-powered predictive ordering and inventory solutions to reduce waste and offer the freshest product for customers, according to the technology provider. Afresh will help Albertsons optimize fresh forecasting, inventory, ordering, merchandising, and operations.

Albertsons Companies Inc. is optimizing fresh forecasting, inventory, ordering, merchandising, and operations. The grocery giant is deploying artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled predictive ordering and inventory solutions from Afresh Technologies to reduce waste and offer the freshest product for customers. Albertsons Cos. will utilize the Afresh AI technology platform in all its stores to create competitive differentiation in its fresh offering to customers while helping to reduce food waste, ultimately reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and saving water.

Albertsons chooses the Afresh Fresh Operating System for stores chainwide to reduce waste, increase sales, and provide the freshest food for their customers.

Afresh is scaling rapidly, and we have 30+ open, remote jobs in sustainability. Learn more about how we’re enabling distributed work as we work to reduce food waste.

Afresh is bursting with social impact job opportunities. Learn more about how Beth aligned her personal values with her work as our Volunteer Coordinator.

Afresh is proud to be named a top company to work for in the Bay area by BuiltIn San Francsico. We're a distributed team so whether you live in SF or not, you can find a great career at Afresh.

Afresh CEO Matt Schwartz shares how retailers can be smarter in the year ahead by putting more digital investment into fresh.

Fresh departments deal with a huge set of variables that make accurate ordering nearly impossible. With today’s capabilities in artificial intelligence, grocery retailers finally have tech that doesn’t fail in fresh.

For the produce teams that run fresh departments, artificial intelligence and easy-to-use tech go a long way in keeping the coveted avocado in stock. Consumers expect avocados and a Fresh Operating System makes it happen.

Strawberries are the most popular fruit in the U.S., with blueberries coming in second. By now, consumers expect fresh berries to be in stock all year long. And for fresh department teams, that can be a challenge. We pulled in industry expert Scott Schuette to share his best practices for dealing with the winter berry blues!

Afresh has grown by leaps and bounds in 2021, from opening a new office in downtown San Francisco to welcoming more than 80 new team members. As we wind down the year, we’re celebrating some massive milestones, with many more to come in 2022. It’s an exciting time to join us at Afresh!

What’s it like to work with us? Get Tyler’s take on collaborating with coworkers who are passionate about our mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all.

Fresh departments are the star of every supermarket and a Fresh Operating System gives store teams to technology, tools, and data they need to make them shine - learn how in the playbook. AI has become ubiquitous in the grocery industry, but its application has been surprisingly absent from the most strategic area of the store: fresh departments. In this whitepaper, you will learn. Why legacy solutions, even those that use AI, fail when used in fresh. What makes AI uniquely suited for all of fresh’s challenges, and, how Afresh’s fresh-centric AI effectively transforms fresh departments

Afresh and its employees recently adopted a Bay Area food bank. Going beyond cash donations, the company has also pledged to help the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank with volunteers once a week. Afresh employees volunteering their time will allow the food bank’s staff to deploy other volunteers to other food banks and pantries that are struggling with boots on the ground as they meet increased demand.

Food waste problems are 100x more complex with fresh produce like vegetables, fruits, and leafy greens. Find out why and how artificial intelligence can help retailers buy the right amount of produce at the right time.

At Afresh, our mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all underlies every part of our work. By empowering produce managers to place perfect orders with our AI-powered recommendations, Afresh reduces shrink by an average of 25% and adds 2 days to post-sale shelf life.

Select Save Mart, Lucky California and Foodmaxx stores in California will test an AI service from Afresh Technologies aimed at keeping produce fresh and in-stock.

Key events like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s create opportunities and challenges for fresh department inventory and product movement. To keep stockouts and shrink low, use these best practices to stay ahead of the rush this holiday season.

Afresh Technologies, an AI-driven technology company building solutions transforming the fresh food supply chain, announced today that it is partnering with The Save Mart Companies, California's largest family owned grocer, on an upcoming pilot program. The Save Mart Companies will bring Afresh's Fresh Operating System into select Save Mart, Lucky California and FoodMaxx stores throughout California.

Afresh system to optimize fresh operations at Save Mart, Lucky California and FoodMaxx stores

Through a partnership with the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, Afresh will continue to deliver fresh-first tech and complement that work by serving the communities where Afreshies live and work.

Afresh Technologies, an AI-driven technology company building solutions transforming the fresh food supply chain, announced that it is partnering with The Save Mart Companies, California’s largest family-owned grocer, on an upcoming pilot program.

Afresh Technologies, an AI-driven technology company building solutions transforming the fresh food supply chain, announced today that it is partnering with The Save Mart Companies, California’s largest family owned grocer, on an upcoming pilot program.

Family-owned West Coast grocer The Save Mart is teaming up with tech firm Afresh Technologies to pilot an AI-driven fresh operating system in select Save Mart, Lucky California and FoodMaxx stores throughout California.

As we approach Turkey Day, pick up our four tips on how to reduce Thanksgiving food waste.‍

Afresh is an AI technology company, that builds solutions specifically for the complexity of fresh food to radically reduce food waste.

What does it mean to be part of a social impact company built for scale? Read on for Marketing Coordinator Katherine’s take on the journey that led her to Afresh and the road ahead.

Grocery store produce and perimeter departments manage a set of unique challenges that center store teams don't face.