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Rooser
Eliminating seafood waste by creating transparency and certainty for the industry
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Marketplace
- Internal tools
- Food
- Supply Chain
- Camden Town, London, UK
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Company mission
To reduce the amount of waste from seafood that is caught and harvested from our oceans.
Our take
Unless it’s bought directly from the source, it’s likely that seafood has passed through several pairs of hands before making it to the end customer. Rooser’s platform aims to smooth this supply chain issue, and reduce waste as a result, by connecting retailers with fishing companies.
While there’s been plenty of negative headlines about the fishing industry as a whole, its $250 billion value doesn’t appear to be taking a downturn any time soon. Rooser is very much a profit oriented company, but by rectifying so many of the inefficiencies which plague the industry – predominantly wastage – its solution could well contribute to more ecologically friendly practices.
With funding secured in 2022 from Index Ventures and Point Nine Capital, Rooser is now upping its headcount and entering more markets, as most of its business currently comes from France. It's also adding more functions to its platform such as quality control and financing.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- 📈 Shares in the company
- 👶 Enhanced family leave
- 🏥 Private medical insurance
- 🛡 Income protection
- ✍️ Life assurance
- 📱 24/7 counselling support
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
Company values
- ⚓️ Leave your ego in the harbour - a high-performance crew functions on passion, not egos.
- 🐟 Relentless like a salmon - we’re ready to swim against the current, focus on the goal and get it done.
- ✊ Respect your crew mates - customers, crew mates and co-investors, you need each other, act like it.
- 🛳 Act like a skipper - we all own a part of Rooser and act like it.
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2022
$23m
SERIES A
Jan 2020
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $26m
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Leadership
Nicolas Desormeaux
(Co-Founder & CCO)Seafood trade veteran, with experience dating back to 2004. Began career as a Buyer at hypermarket E. Leclerc, before moving to Metro Cash & Carry. Was Commercial Director at Mytilimer Group before co-founding Rooser.
Joel Watt
(Co-Founder)Former Chartered Accountant (Senior Associate) at PwC. Before co-founding Rooser, founded and led seafood company Jack Taylor Ltd.
Erez Mathan
(Co-Founder & COO)A two-time unicorn Fintech exec, having been Chief Risk Officer at GoCardless and Head of Operations at eToro.
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