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Food Waste Startup FoodMaven Acquires Series A Funding

January 11, 2018

Via: Waste360

FoodMaven, a Colorado-based food waste startup that works to keep food out of landfills, has secured $8.6 million in Series A funding. Among the investors contributing are the Waltons, the heirs of Walmart’s founder Sam Walton and former Whole Foods CEO Walter Robb.

FoodMaven is certainly not the first organization committed to reducing the amount of food in landfills. However, what makes it unique is that it’s a for-profit enterprise, thinking more like a tech startup than a charitable organization.

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