A humane and healthy planet.
To back the best entrepreneurs that are improving the overall health and sustainability of the food system.
Hazel Technologies
Increase shelf life and decrease waste
Sector Processors, Packagers & Distributors
Founded 2015
Headquarters Chicago, IL
Hazel develops new solutions to reduce food waste to improve the fresh produce supply chain. It also provides shelf-life extension technologies and services to combat the global food waste problem and improve profitability for its customers. Hazel’s® USDA-funded 1-MCP technology conditions the storage atmosphere to reduce respiration rate & increase resistance to ethylene, and works in a variety of storage conditions.
LEADERSHIP
Aiden Mouat
CEO and Co-Founder
Adam Preslar
CTO and Co-Founder
Pat Flynn
CMO and Co-Founder
ARTICLES
4/22/2022
Food Waste Innovation: Good for Business, Essential for the Earth
Food waste has far-reaching consequences at the global level, but many innovative companies are delivering solutions to mitigate risks.
Read Time
10
min
IN THE NEWS
4/25/22
Chicago Company’s Answer to Food Waste Is All in the Box
Extending the shelf life of perishables is the business of an emerging Chicago company that has made growers and environmentalists take notice.
Chicago Sun-Times
4/28/21
Join The Spoon and ReFED for the Food Waste Insights and Innovation Forum
We’ll also highlight emerging innovators chosen by ReFED and The Spoon who are creating technology-driven solutions to reduce waste across the food system, whether that’s at the farm, in the supply chain, at the restaurant or grocery store or in our own fridges.
The Spoon
4/15/21
S2G Ventures' $1B Bet on a Healthier Planet
How a Chicago VC fund led by the founder of OpenTable is addressing climate change
Chicago Business Journal
OUR PODCAST
WHERE WE GROW FROM HERE
10/13/20
Combating Food Waste Across the Supply Chain
In this episode of Where We Grow From Here, we are joined by Aidan Mouat, co-founder and CEO at Hazel Technologies and Matthew Walker, Managing Director at S2G. We explore the issue of food waste across the supply chain, talk about how we can combat it and make the food system more efficient, and discuss some of the adjacent benefits that efficiency will provide for the environment and the economy.
EPISODE
9