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Connecting Food offers a Confidence Platform that equips agriculture-rooted industries with tools to ensure compliance with quality and sustainability standards across their supply chains. The platform functions as an advanced digital auditing solution, transforming intricate raw data into actionable insights. This capability helps businesses mitigate risks, enhance operational efficiency, and achieve critical sustainability objectives through comprehensive modules for data collection, tracing, mapping, assessment, measurement, and transparent communication.
The company was co-founded in 2016 by Maxine Roper and Stefano Volpi. Roper, with over two decades of experience in the food industry, identified a critical need for enhanced transparency and verifiable compliance within agricultural supply chains. This insight, driven by increasing consumer demand and evolving regulatory landscapes, spurred the creation of a solution that could provide granular traceability and robust auditing capabilities from farm to final product.
Connecting Food’s clientele includes diverse sectors such as food, textiles, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, all of which navigate stringent regulatory and environmental requirements. The company’s vision is to empower its users to build trust with consumers by leveraging transparency as a key competitive advantage. By proactively addressing complex frameworks like EUDR and CSRD, Connecting Food aims to position compliance not merely as an obligation but as a strategic differentiator for a forward-looking market.
Connecting Food has raised $5.0M across 1 funding round.
Connecting Food has raised $5.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Connecting Food is a Paris-based food tech company founded in 2016 that builds a Food Confidence Platform leveraging blockchain for end-to-end traceability, authenticity certification, and real-time auditing in food supply chains[1][2][3][4]. The platform serves farmers, processors, manufacturers, brands, retailers, and consumers across agriculture-rooted industries like food, textiles, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, solving issues like non-compliance, product recalls, contamination risks, and lack of transparency by turning raw supply chain data into verified, actionable insights via digital twins, QR codes, and tamper-proof records[1][2][3][4][6]. With $7.58M raised and pilots in animal production chains (e.g., eggs, milk, pork), it has demonstrated growth through an ecosystem of over 15,000 suppliers and tools for monitoring quality, sustainability, and regulations[1][3].
Connecting Food was co-founded in 2016 by Maxine Roper and Stefano Volpi, both with deep experience in global food supply chains from roles at Nestlé, Danone, Mars, and Groupe Avril[1][4]. The idea emerged from their firsthand knowledge of industry pain points like contamination scandals, product recalls, and the need for real-time visibility into End Product Specifications (EPS) compliance, prompting a blockchain-based chain-of-custody system for audit trails and early issue detection[4][6]. Early traction included beta pilots in 2018 across five French animal production supply chains (eggs, milk, pork, chicken, beef) with major retailers and foodservice operators, plus recognition as an EIT Food RisingFoodStars company, evolving from food-focused authenticity to broader transparency solutions for natural resource industries[1][4][6].
Connecting Food rides the agri-food transparency wave, fueled by consumer distrust from scandals, rising sustainability demands, and stringent regulations like EU deforestation rules and traceability mandates[3][6]. Its timing aligns with blockchain's maturation for supply chains post-2016, enabling tamper-proof data amid global pressures for ethical sourcing and recall prevention, which cost the industry billions annually[4][6]. Market forces favoring it include the shift to real-time data in fragmented agri-chains, AI/blockchain convergence for insights, and consumer preference for verifiable claims via QR codes, influencing the ecosystem by empowering producers to build trust, collaborate, and monetize sustainability while pressuring incumbents to adopt similar tech[1][2][3][6].
Connecting Food is poised to scale its platform amid escalating regulations and consumer demands for provenance, potentially expanding into high-growth areas like pharma and textiles with its modular tools and supplier network[2][3]. Trends like AI-enhanced analytics, Web3 incentives for sustainable farming, and mandatory Scope 3 reporting will accelerate adoption, evolving its role from auditor to ecosystem orchestrator for compliant, circular supply chains. As transparency solidifies as a market imperative, expect partnerships with majors like Nestlé alumni networks to drive global pilots into full deployments, cementing blockchain's stake in food confidence[3][4][6].
Connecting Food has raised $5.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Connecting Food's investors include Leadblock Partners.
Connecting Food has raised $5.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $5.0M Seed in February 2020.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2020 | $5.0M Seed | Leadblock Partners |