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Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2020
Powered by our edge optimized ML inference engine Kanduai provides state of the art Edge AI enabled solutions.
To make the our solutions scalable (low cost, small form factor) we developed unique tech, AI Inference Engine and SDK for low power CPU.
Our super optimized AI engine is used by our clients for various use cases, from homeland security mobile face recognition to ticket switching fraud detection at retail point of sale.
Feel free to contact us for more details info@kanduai.com
Investor & Advisor
Nov 2020
The leader in On-Demand Pay and #1 adopted financial wellness benefit. Because life doesnt wait and neither should your pay. Trusted by 1,000+ employers.
Investor & Advisor
Sep 2020
Empowering consumers to shop and eat the way they want, using a personalized digital experience.
Investor & Advisory Board
Apr 2020
Anycart is an online shopping platform that combines recipe inspiration and grocery delivery, making it easier to cook at home and save hours of time. We believe that homemade meals are best and weve created over 1000 delicious recipes that can be made in 30 minutes or less. With grocery delivery and video instructions included, cooking at home just got a whole lot easier.
Investor & Advisory Board
Mar 2020
Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and weve helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software!
Investor & Board Member
Feb 2020
We’ll never claim to have all the answers, but we know this much: life should be spent doing what you love. Our mission is to wake people up to this fact and to provide them with the fuel to help them do it.
We’re not a faceless corporation. We’re people with the same dreams and aspirations as our customers. We believe that if we can help people achieve their dreams, we’ll be able to achieve our own. It’s as simple as that.
Board Member
Dec 2019
Green Rabbit is the trusted cold chain logistics provider for fast, safe, sustainable fulfillment and delivery of perishable goods and groceries. The company’s proprietary technology automates and manages the entire supply chain process, enforcing SQF Level 3 certification and industry best practices to ensure that heat-sensitive items are delivered fresh, cost-effectively, and in an environmentally conscious manner.
Initially started as Candy.com, co-founders Greg Balestrieri and Joe Melville later re-branded to Green Rabbit, expanding the business beyond candy and into perishable and frozen food. Today, six of the ten largest retailers in the U.S. and four of the ten largest global food and beverage manufacturers rely on Green Rabbit to maximize the value of their digital food delivery initiatives.
Green Rabbit is headquartered in Braintree, MA and backed with a minority investment from Guidepost Growth Equity.
Investor & Advisory Board
Nov 2019
Pensa is a leading innovator in changing the way brands and retailers manage retail shelf inventory. Pensa’s data-as-a-service portfolio and use of advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence enable CPG brands and retailers to reduce stockouts and boost revenues by delivering highly accurate real-time visibility of the store shelf at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. Pensa partners with top CPG brands and retailers globally, including Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Circle K, and Unilever to address a trillion-dollar “blind spot” at a critical time in the industry.
Investor and advisory board
Nov 2019
Pensa is a leading innovator in changing the way brands and retailers manage retail shelf inventory. Pensa’s data-as-a-service portfolio and use of advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence enable CPG brands and retailers to reduce stockouts and boost revenues by delivering highly accurate real-time visibility of the store shelf at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. Pensa partners with top CPG brands and retailers globally, including Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Circle K, and Unilever to address a trillion-dollar “blind spot” at a critical time in the industry.
Investor & Board Member
May 2019
Deliv is crowdsourced, same day delivery, bridging the last mile gap between omni channel retailers and their customers. Simply adding this new delivery option to your existing online or in-store checkout gives your customers more — a great deal more — choice & convenience.
The result: you get increased loyalty and sales, and all the benefits that flow from customer delight.
Investor & Board Member
Nov 2018
When food gets thrown out, most times it ends up in a landfill gets covered by other garbage and when it rots, it produces methane gas. If international food waste were a country, it would be the third leading cause of GHG behind the United States and China.
Flashfood partners with grocery chains to allow them to sell surplus food through the Flashfood app at significant discounts for its users while reducing store-level food waste.
Flashfood users see deals on food through their phone, pay through their phone and pick their items up in store.
Flashfood helps grocers reduce shrink, provides consumers with an accessible way to purchase healthy, fresh food and diverts surplus food that may have otherwise gone to waste.
Investor & board member
Nov 2018
When food gets thrown out, most times it ends up in a landfill gets covered by other garbage and when it rots, it produces methane gas. If international food waste were a country, it would be the third leading cause of GHG behind the United States and China.
Flashfood partners with grocery chains to allow them to sell surplus food through the Flashfood app at significant discounts for its users while reducing store-level food waste.
Flashfood users see deals on food through their phone, pay through their phone and pick their items up in store.
Flashfood helps grocers reduce shrink, provides consumers with an accessible way to purchase healthy, fresh food and diverts surplus food that may have otherwise gone to waste.
Investor and board chair
Sep 2018
Grillo's Pickles began simply with a pickle cart, just a small wooden stand in downtown Boston, where Travis Grillo and his friends would sell two spears for one dollar. Travis made the pickles by night using his family's 100-year old recipe - one he'd memorized from making pickles every summer as a kid. Then, in the morning, Travis would bike to the Boston Common and set up the cart with his buddies. Theyʼd hang out all day, urging people to try the simple Grillo family pickle. It was a small business, but Travis worked hard for it. He made more pickles, biked more miles, and slept less hours than he ever had before. Before he knew it, Whole Foods Markets and the Boston Red Sox asked to feature the pickles. Others promptly followed. Today, Grilloʼs Pickles are available in grocery stores across the country.
Even so, not much has changed. At its core, the company will always be Travis and his buddies spreading the word about these awesome pickles, just like years ago in the Boston Common. The pickle itself hasnʼt changed, either. Itʼs still garden-fresh, all-natural, and refreshingly delicious. We think itʼs the best pickle in the world.
Investor & Board Member
Sep 2018
Fetch, Americas Rewards App, empowers consumers to Live Rewarded and helps brands create lifelong customers through the power of Fetch Points.
Fetch has sweeping visibility into what consumers buy, capturing more than $179 billion worth of transactions annually using cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. To date, Fetch users have submitted more than 5 billion receipts and earned more than $1 billion in rewards.
The app is available to download on the App Store and Google Play Store and has more than 6 million five-star reviews from happy Fetchers.
Investor and advisory board
Aug 2018
Datasembly knows that our customers need real-time data to make real-life decisions. That is why our technology provides in-store and real-time, pricing, promotions, and availability data, without ever stepping foot in a store. From your brand or private label, to your store or your competitors, we provide real-time data for every product, every store, every day.
Datasembly is proudly supportive of an inclusive and diverse workforce (and world) .
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2020
Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2020
Powered by our edge optimized ML inference engine Kanduai provides state of the art Edge AI enabled solutions.
To make the our solutions scalable (low cost, small form factor) we developed unique tech, AI Inference Engine and SDK for low power CPU.
Our super optimized AI engine is used by our clients for various use cases, from homeland security mobile face recognition to ticket switching fraud detection at retail point of sale.
Feel free to contact us for more details info@kanduai.com
Investor & Advisor
Nov 2020
The leader in On-Demand Pay and #1 adopted financial wellness benefit. Because life doesnt wait and neither should your pay. Trusted by 1,000+ employers.
Investor & Advisor
Sep 2020
Empowering consumers to shop and eat the way they want, using a personalized digital experience.
Operating Advisor
May 2020
Guidepost Growth Equity is a leading growth equity firm that partners with technology companies offering innovative solutions in large, dynamic markets including tech-enabled services, infrastructure software and services, and application software and data services. Guidepost Growth Equity provides the flexible capital, operational support and strategic guidance to support the continued success of growth-stage businesses located in North America. Guidepost Growth Equity has over $1 billion of capital under management.
Investor & Advisory Board
Apr 2020
Anycart is an online shopping platform that combines recipe inspiration and grocery delivery, making it easier to cook at home and save hours of time. We believe that homemade meals are best and weve created over 1000 delicious recipes that can be made in 30 minutes or less. With grocery delivery and video instructions included, cooking at home just got a whole lot easier.
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