Root Global
Decarbonization infrastructure for the food & beverage supply chain
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Sustainability
- Food
- Supply Chain
- Agriculture
- Business Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- Accounting
- Environmental
- Moabit, Berlin, Germany
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Company mission
To build software that helps food brands get to net zero emissions - by becoming the data infrastructure that powers pricing and purchasing decisions across the food industry.
Our take
Food and beverage supply chains are responsible for between 20% and 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and it’s something businesses can’t sweep under the rug any longer. Tightening regulations require that businesses disclose their climate performance, and stakeholders and customers are paying close attention. Bad climate practices are increasingly bad for business, and Root Global is looking to help companies keep their performance up.
The Root software platform is designed to help food and beverage companies shoot for a zero-carbon future, by offering what Root hopes will become an industry-wide carbon operating system. Essentially, a database providing full life-cycle carbon emission data so businesses can make climate practise decisions based on accurate, comprehensive data - instead of the current system of upstream and downstream estimates.
This could prove a highly valuable proposition. Increasingly large numbers of companies are setting science-based climate targets, but research suggests the majority of these are distant, imprecise, or lack actionable road maps to get there. So, solid carbon accounting software is in urgent demand, and if Root can build out the client base necessary for industry-wide coverage, it stands to make a substantial impact.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- 🚲 A mobility subscription that reduces or offsets your emissions from commuting
- 👗 Probably the coolest startup merch in the world
- 🚚 Financial and administrative support with your move to Berlin
- 🏖️ Minimum of 25 days of vacation days per year. Yes, minimum
- 🧠 Individualised learning budget to get 3x the horse power
- 💌 Participation in a unique climate-tech and food-tech community
- 🎧 A Spotify subscription so you can do your most productive work
- 🏋️ A fitness subscription so you can clear your head in your time out of the office
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2022
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $3m
Leadership
Maurice Hensel
(CEO & Founder)Previously MD of Frankfurt School Student Consulting, then took up various internships at HomeToGo, Luminovo, and Project A Ventures. Served as Head of Growth at Acapela, and co-founded Cocoon.