BlakBear

We have exciting news! Welcome to the team Andrew Dougherty 🐻 Andrew joins us as our Chief Revenue Officer, bringing his expertise in driving enterprise sales across North America and globally. Based in Boston, he was previously an early team member at TempAlert (acquired by Digi), led sales for CrunchTime Information Systems, and has over 9 years of experience selling IoT and SaaS solutions into the food and grocery retail industries. Andrew’s journey with us started as an advisor, and now, we’re excited to have him full-time to lead our sales strategy and growth 🚀

Published today in Food Manufacture, how BlakBear enables the transition to digital expiry dates on food! Fixed expiry dates are a legacy system that will not exist next decade. They are great for quality and safety but cause huge amounts of unnecessary waste, because they are chosen to cover a worst-case scenario. Instead of a fixed date, food should tell you how fresh it is. That's why BlakBear exists. Thank you so much Bethan Grylls for visiting and featuring us!

In 10 years we will think back on printed expiry dates, and how crazy it was to let all that food go to waste. Expiry dates are chosen to cover a worst-case scenario. That's great for safety and quality, but the unspoken cost is extremely high waste (5-10% in every store, home and restaurant). Instead of printed dates, food should tell you how fresh is! Thanks FoodNavigator for sharing how we do it (link below). And thanks Future Food-Tech for platform! #foodwaste

Digitising date labels to minimise food waste - we featured on ReFED's guest blog 🌱 Check out the summary on our blog and dive into the full article on ReFED to learn how expiration dates are set, why they contribute to food waste, and how BlakBear technology is digitising date labels so food can tell you how fresh it is, reducing waste. Blog link in the comments 👇 #foodwaste #sustainability

🚀 We're excited to exhibit at the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) Autumn Conference: Food Evolution on October 15! Our CEO, Max Grell, will be showcasing how BlakBear's innovative technology is shaping the #FutureofFood, on our mission to reduce food waste across global supply chains. Let's connect! Book a meeting with Max here: https://lnkd.in/eQS3czXk We'll see you at #IFST's #AC24

BlakBear wins the Future Food-Tech 2024 start-up arena! Thank you 🙌🖤🐻 Great to meet with so many food producers, retailers and investors!

Another week, another event! We're speaking at Campden BRI's Hot Topics in Food Microbiology 🦠 Explore how our innovative technology can impact the future of food freshness with our CEO, Max Grell. Book a meeting with Max here: https://lnkd.in/eQS3czXk #CampdenBRI #CampdenHotTopics

We're exhibiting at the Future Food-Tech London next week, on October 2-3! 🚀 Join our CEO, Max Grell and Andrew Dougherty, Head of Sales, to learn how our groundbreaking technology is helping to reduce waste across supply chains with our mission to transition to digital use-by dates. Let's connect! Book a meeting with us here: https://lnkd.in/eQS3czXk See you at #FutureFoodTech

Our CEO, Max Grell, will be speaking at the Women in Agribusiness Summit in Denver about our mission to transition to digital use-by dates, helping to reduce waste across the supply chain 🚀. Book a meeting with Max here: https://lnkd.in/eQS3czXk See you there! #WIAS24 #FoodTech

🚀 We're hiring a Laboratory Technician! Join our Engineering team and you'll get the opportunity to manage BlakBear's Lab, perform food spoilage experiments and be the point of contact for our hardware suppliers. If you have lab experience and want to build tech to cut food waste, we want to hear from you! Share our job listing with a potential candidate and you could earn a referral reward (if they're hired!) 👇 Application link in the comments below