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Fathom is a free application that automatically records and transcribes meetings on platforms like Zoom and Google Meet, allowing users to focus on conversations instead of note-taking. It provides instant summaries and highlights key points, streamlining the process of reviewing discussions and action items. This tool enhances communication efficiency for sales teams and professionals by ensuring that critical information is easily accessible.

Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory. Working exclusively at the manufacturing plant or distribution center level, Spoiler Alert offers a best-in-class B2B sales platform that enables food & beverage brands to manage their liquidation processes across a private network of discount retailers and nonprofit channels - with a heavy focus on maximizing value recovery, strengthening customer relationships, and increasing the effectiveness of supply chain managers tasked with handling these typically manual sales processes. Founded by alumni of MIT, Spoiler Alert works with some of the world's largest brands, including Campbell's, Danone, HelloFresh, KeHE Distributors, and Kraft Heinz, along with a growing network of discount channels committed to increasing affordable food access and reducing food waste.

Bear Flag Robotics is an ag-tech company developing autonomous technology for farm tractors to increase productivity and improve safety. The solution gathers data on field patterns to provide predictive analytics that helps growers better plan each season. It can be controlled and commanded from a central mission control who gets real-time information about everything happening on a tractor that enables farmers to reduce input and increase production yield easily. Co-Founders Igino Cafiero and Aubrey Donnellan founded the company in 2017 in Newark, California.

Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain. Their product development is funded in part by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and their product performance has been validated by 3rd party academic research institutions such as Cornell University. The company provides USDA-funded 1-MCP technology conditions the storage atmosphere to reduce respiration rate & increase resistance to ethylene. Hazel Technologies offers horticultural consulting services to growers and shippers, as well as develops new solutions to reduce food waste to improve the fresh produce supply chain. It also provides shelf-life extension technologies and services to combat the global food waste problem and improve profitability for its customers. Hazel Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory. Working exclusively at the manufacturing plant or distribution center level, Spoiler Alert offers a best-in-class B2B sales platform that enables food & beverage brands to manage their liquidation processes across a private network of discount retailers and nonprofit channels - with a heavy focus on maximizing value recovery, strengthening customer relationships, and increasing the effectiveness of supply chain managers tasked with handling these typically manual sales processes. Founded by alumni of MIT, Spoiler Alert works with some of the world's largest brands, including Campbell's, Danone, HelloFresh, KeHE Distributors, and Kraft Heinz, along with a growing network of discount channels committed to increasing affordable food access and reducing food waste.

Sample6 is a synthetic-biology based bacteria diagnostic system capable of enrichment-free detection. Its technology detects as low as 1CFU/ml in just 4 hours. Its proprietary Bioillumination Platform was developed by Professor Tim Lu (MIT) and Dr. Michael Koeris in the lab of Professor James Collins at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Boston University. The platform allows for the engineering of bioparticles that target and “light up” specific unwanted bacteria—or specific groups of bacterial species. They couple this capability with highly sensitive sensor technology that detects low levels of pathogens to see results in minutes—right on-site—with no laboratory required. Sample6′s mission is to improve the health and safety of global consumers by building integrated systems that quickly and easily detect harmful and unwanted bacteria. They see applications in food production, retailing, healthcare, and beyond—anywhere humans and bacteria intersect.

WHOOP is the performance optimization system that tracks recovery, training, and sleeping hours thus helping elite athletes and teams win. The company provides athletes, coaches, and trainers with a continuous understanding of strain and recovery to balance training, reduce injuries, and predict performance. It creates a product that makes individuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 collects physiological data 24/7 to provide an accurate and granular understanding of the body. Aurelian Nicolae, John Capodilupo, and Will Ahmed established WHOOP in 2012 and in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sourcery is developing a payments and commerce platform that focuses on the wholesale foodservice industry, a $220B market that still runs on 1980s technology: buyers search for products in paper catalogs, submit orders by fax or phone, and deal with paper invoices and checks. Sourcery's platform brings all of these transactions online. Sourcery enables companies of all sizes to handle their AP needs in one place. We turn a stack of invoices into a boatload of insights automagically. We work with leading restaurateurs, operators and accountants to build the best accounts payable solution for the industry. Owners and executives of multi-unit restaurant organizations rely on Sourcery to provide a scalable solution to help them create efficiencies, and, ultimately, grow their business, while impacting their bottom line. Sourcery integrates with most accounting software and restaurant management applications. We use a combination of computation and human verification to have the best in class extraction of structured data from invoices down the the line item. Our data analytics automatically detect anomalies and notify purchasers about rising prices. Customers include Palantir, Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe as well as restaurants, caterers, and other food businesses. Call toll free on +1-(866)830-0691

Caviar is the easiest way for consumers and businesses to order food from favorite local eateries with the ability to live-track the order on a map. Browse a picture menu, place the order, and we'll deliver within 1 hour. Caviar offers restaurants a delivery solution in just a few minutes without any infrastructure, logistical, or operational costs.