Foodfully
Description
Passionate nerds building software and hardware to eliminate food waste. Currently in beta testing!
Long Description

Foodfully builds software and hardware to eliminate household food waste. By integrating with grocery store loyalty cards, automatically tracking purchases and sending notifications before food items may spoil, and giving users access to resources to use or donate their food, Foodfully addresses the common problems leading to household food waste.

Founder(s)
Brianna McGuire
Stage
Pre-seed
Programs
UC Davis Big Bang!, Capitalize 2016
Founded
2016
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Davis, CA
Ag for Hire
Description
Connecting laborers to farm owners
Long Description

Ag for Hire connects farmers with their seasonal and specialty workforce

Programs
Apps for Ag Hackathon 2015, UC Davis Venture Catalyst
Founded
2015
City
Davis, CA
ExtraPlate
Long Description

The ExtraPlate app lets you order on-demand, directly from your phone. Discover produce from local farms and your neighbors, your favorite food truck fare, or a hot meal from someone in your community. Opt for pick up, or delivery. All from a tap of a button.

Founder(s)
Grant Rosenquist, Jimmy Crabbé
Founded
2016
City
Sacramento, CA
Sostena Inc
Description
Sostena provides hybrid fruit and vegetable seed to world class growers around the globe.
Long Description

Sostena recognizes that creating more value in the agricultural supply chain is vitally important due to limitations in arable acres and other natural resources. As the global population continues its growth trajectory, supporting healthy business practices and finding ways to do more with less are absolute imperatives within the agricultural community.

 

Founder(s)
Tim Colin
Stage
Series A
Founded
2016
AgShift
Name
Description
AgTech startup focused on Small commercial farms. Applying Big data towards making diversified farms more profitable, efficient and sustainable.
Long Description

AgShift is the world’s first cloud-based data intelligence platform specifically built to address the challenges of record-keeping complexities and compliance for small diversified farms.

Founder(s)
Miku Jha
Programs
AgStart
BioConsortia
Description
BioConsortia is an agricultural biotechnology company that uses a proprietary method for the selection of beneficial microbial consortia for crop improvement.
Long Description

BioConsortia is developing highly effective microbial consortia for increasing agricultural yields.

We have developed a revolutionary Advanced Microbial Selection (AMS) process, which uses directed selection to discover beneficial teams of microbes. This novel, patented model works by controlling the seed genetics and the environment while changing the microbial community in order to shift trait performance in the crop toward improved targeted phenotypes.

Founder(s)
Marcus Meadows-Smith
Stage
Series B
Founded
2014
City
Davis, CA
FoodJets
Description
Local restaurants delivered in as little as 15 minutes with $2.99 delivery.
Long Description

FoodJets offers on-demand food delivery…

If you’re hungry, FoodJets delivers! Actually, we deliver anyway, seven days a week!

We deliver the best local restaurants to your curb in as little as 15 minutes. And with our order tracking system, you’ll know exactly where your food is at all times. You will get a curb call and text when our driver is 2 minutes away to meet them at your curb. Meeting us at the curb saves us time, which saves you money.

Founder(s)
Darren McAdams
Founded
2015
City
Sacramento, CA
Turtle Haus
Long Description

Turtle Haus is an food company aimed at creating unique and social almond-based offerings.

Founder(s)
Morgan Woolf
Contact Person
Morgan Woolf
Founded
2016
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Davis, CA
CPG Data, L.L.C.
Description
CPG Data develops and sells highly specialized software that helps beer, wine and spirits distributors track promotional displays of their products in stores.
Long Description

CPG Data™ empowers the alcohol industry with real-time, total-market visibility against execution metrics that drive growth:

• Displays
• On-premise
• Tap handles
• Points of distribution
• Sales merchandising
• Floor-to-store market share

Our patent-pending proprietary mobile app drives instant adoption through simple, easy to use surveys that don’t ask any questions. Even your least technologically savvy employee will agree, because we built CPG Data with his input!

Designed by a team with over 150 years of combined industry three-tier experience, CPG Data provides only the necessary reports and analytics for tracking the most popular execution metrics at retail. As Albert Einstein said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

We know Execution. We know Incentives. We know MBOs, PFP, DSOF, ACV, and TNT! CPG Data will reduce reduce the administrative burden on your sales team while empowering decision makers with real-time results to improve Execution and keep suppliers happy.

Founder(s)
Tracy Neal
Founded
2013
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
El Dorado Hills, CA
Freedge
Name
Long Description

freedge promotes the installation of community fridges [public refrigerators] that are used to share food and ideas at the neighborhood level. It's a sharing mechanism aiming to reduce food waste and build a stronger community.

Founder(s)
Ernst Bertone Oehninger
Founded
2014
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Davis, CA