Marriott International, Inc. announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with technology company PathSpot Technologies, Inc. to streamline hygiene in restaurant kitchens. lodgingmagazine.com/marriott… #hotels #hospitality

Marriott International announces strategic agreement with @PathSpot, an innovative real-time hand hygiene management system and safety operations suite. marr.in/6010FBlOm

飲食 × AIでお店の売上UP！ 📖 メニュー開発 → Tastewise、Plant Jammer AI 📊 売上＆需要予測 → Square AI、Toast AI、Brightloom 🤖 オーダー自動化 → SoundHound AI、Presto AI 👀 食品衛生管理 → PathSpot、Zebra AI 🎨 SNSマーケ支援 → Canva AI、Lumen5 👉 「人気メニューは？🍕」AIがデータでヒット商品を予測！ 📲 #AI飲食 #レストラン経営 #フードテック

Here's a giant list of food supply chain companies I compiled 3-4 years ago as I went deeper into exploration mode on $TRAK. To anyone who says I didn't do my research.....yawn. $TRAK has something none of these other companies have. I continue my buys. -------------- ## SUPPLY ### Yield Forecasting & Harvest Tech - Agriphoto - CIBO - Croptracker - Crophropper - Fieldin - FluroSat - GreenGrowth - Mainstay - mOasis - ProFarm ### Supply & Trade Analytics/Strategy - agtools - arya - Bushel - DecisionNext - eCHO - geora - Stable - Bountiful - s4 ### Trading Platforms - Bart - bext360 - Covantis - DIMUTO - Frey - Frontster - cmdy - INTERLACE - MERCARIS - ProducePay - The Seam ### First Mile Monitoring - ambra - AGH - escavox - Centaur - Intellic - Trellis - scio - FreshCloud - TeleSense - VeriGrain - sparrows.io - AgroFresh - Strella ### First Mile Producer Power Mgmt - AgriDigital - ALMONDLOGIC - Agro-Milk - iTrade Network - Crown360 - CropTrak - DIGIFARM - Farmersoft - FutureForm - movement - RADFORDS - RedLine - WaudWare ### Freshness Detection - C2Sense - Clear Labs - Impact Vision - PhotoSense - DeCode - TRACE - SFS ### Ag Value Chain Platforms - CERES - FARMERS - indigo - stellapps - SYSIPRO ### Enterprise Supply Chain Platforms - Antean - Business Systems Resources - BlueYonder - AirwStream - DESCARTES - infor - Manhattan - ROYAL 4 - toolsgroup ### B2B Procurement Markets/Platforms (Supply-Focus) - agree - barchart - BIJAK - COMDYNE - crofarm - ERGOS - Farmley - FRIDGE - GrainX - KrishiHub - N@TIVE - PartnerSlate - Procol - WYCOL ## PRODUCTION ### AI/ML CPG Innovation - DataRobot - BrightSeed - Gastrograph - Knowde - Flavor DNA - PAIRING - RONDO.IO - shiru - SIGNALS - Spoonshot - Tastewise ### Production Analytics/Strategy - Apeel - Machine - Interos - laserdata - methods - Talkony - SensoryX - SEEPEX ### Production Robotics & Automation - ABB - OAL - QUEST - Rockwell - FANUC - OMRON - SAIREM - SANOVO - SCOTT - UNIVERSAL ROBOTS ### ERP - Production - BATCHMASTER - Dairycom - DEACOM - CSB-System - PARITY - Minotaur - NET YIELD - NutraSoft - SAS - Vanguard Ag - WHERE ### Quality & Safety Control - CMX - PathSpot - FoodLogiq - CORVIUM - Food Portal - FoodChain ID - IRSEA - SAFETYCHIAN - SafeFood360 - TRAQTION ### Quality & Safety Control/Application - AgroFresh - Apeel - blumap - BOOST - eGZEN - FRESHNESS - GLoriPruit - HAZEL technologies - Impact Vision - INSIGNT - MORI - ND-BLY2E - OZARK - purfresh - Rebound - SENTINEL - TOMRA - WISELY ### Manufacturing Operations/Control - ATS - CAT - DEMAND DRIVEN - ekos - FOCUS WORKS - foodidb - INNOVA - PLEX - ProLeiT - QUICK - VICINITY FOOD - WIIBE ### Data/Track/3rd Party Verification - AgTrace - arc.net - CLOUDLEF4 - IdentGEN - Infor - LUMA CHAIN - VANIKA - bsi ## LOGISTICS & DISTRIBUTION ### Supply Chain Analytics/Strategy - AIMMS - backhauiAI - ChainPoint - Sourcemap - Supply Cube - SOLVERVA - Riskpulse ### Transportation Mgmt & Visibility - BLUE JAY - DOSSIER - ECHO - Flock Freight - foxtrot - LOCUS - REAVEN - SwanLeap - TRADELANES ### Warehouse/DC Mgmt & Automation - ALERT - CADRE - DEMATIC - Fabric - KUKA - RIGHTHAND - SOFTEON - takeoff - VOXWARE - Westfalia - visualfabriq ### ERP - Distribution - ADS - Aspen - enfree - CAI Software - compass - fresh byte - iptor - POINT - Vanguard Ag ### Business Automation & Vendor/Order Mgmt - BirchStreet - COUPI - MarketMan - orderful - mercad - SWEET - Wholesail ### Cold Chain-Focused Logistics/3PL - Barrett - KIRBY - CH ROBINSON - CHOPTANK - EMERALD - Lineage - HAVI - MERCURY GATE - SOMARK - TRADEWATER - TOLL ### Digital Logistics Marketplaces - ARRIVE - CONVOY - Emerge - FLEXE - FREIGHTX - LOADSMART - NEWTRUL - test - TRANSFIX - Uber Freight - varoexix - XENETA ### Integrated Business Planning - afs - Alloy - blueshift - FuturMaster - fractal - KINAXIS - TIBERSOFT - unioncrate ### Networked Supply Trade Logistics - chainIO - Controlant - E2OPEN - elemica - FOURKITES - OMNICHAIN - OVERHAUL - project44 - roambee - sheer - TRANSPLACE - TRADLEENS - ZUM ## DEMAND ### F&B/Retail Data Analytics - 2451 - IRI - Enterra - Nielsen - SPINS - SKUPOS - TABSAnalytics ### F&B/Retail Demand Planning & Mgmt - Afresh - autostrade - CRISP - mintron - RELEX - RepositTrak - TOSCA - visualfabriq ### Omnichannel/D2C Logistics - Alestore - CINCIN - Ohi - amazon - Cyprus Frozen 3PL - PSS - channel - Spoiler - ShipBob - STOWVAULT - shopify - TrueCommerce ### Supply Chain Food Recovery - FoodMaven - FULL HARVEST - goMKT - hub - SPOILER - Wasteless - KITCHE - NILUS - rtxcel - SupplyShift - Transparancy - waste2es - XJME ### B2B Procurement Markets/Platforms (Demand-Focus) - BlueCart - Claire - Clear - Collective - COPI - DineMarket - forager - REKKI - procsea - SFP - SPOD - SQUAREMEAL - Spoiler - Traceone

"Schindler is CEO and co-founder of PathSpot, a food safety system that detects pathogens on the hands of restaurant employees. The company is based in New York." My 3 decades of experience says she's fos and is an expert theoretical gum bumper.

🗞️ 2048 Ventures Portfolio Company News: Health Tech Tackles Food Safety For Restaurants And Food Suppliers forbes.com/sites/geristengel… @PathSpot // @2048vc // #startups // #VC

At @2048vc, we back founders building the future! We are currently looking to fund founders building Real-Time IoT Sensor Innovations. We seek companies developing low-cost sensors for real-time data monitoring. We are agnostic on exact market but have seen success in quality control and compliance spaces through our investments with @h2okinnovations and @PathSpot. We also see clear applications in the manufacturing space. Commodity or low-cost sensors are a fantastic trojan horse to capture data. Additional SaaS products can be built on top of these databases, adding value through dynamic measurements of parameters that facilitate real-time alerts or compliance procedure Please reach out if you are building in this space or upload your materials to 2048.vc/pitch-us. Find the other startups we want to fund outlined here: 2048.vc/blog/2048-vc-investm…

At @2048vc, we back founders building the future! We are currently looking to fund founders building Real-Time IoT Sensor Innovations. We seek companies developing low-cost sensors for real-time data monitoring. We are agnostic on exact market but have seen success in quality control and compliance spaces through our investments with @h2okinnovations and @PathSpot. We also see clear applications in the manufacturing space. Commodity or low-cost sensors are a fantastic trojan horse to capture data. Additional SaaS products can be built on top of these databases, adding value through dynamic measurements of parameters that facilitate real-time alerts or compliance procedures. Please reach out if you are building in this space or upload your materials to 2048.vc/pitch-us. Find the other startups we want to fund outlined here: 2048.vc/blog/2048-vc-investm…

Excited to share our latest @2048vc thesis series. Here you will find our Thesis on Sensors. If you are a founder in this space, please reach out! This post is written by @zacjohnston54 and originally appeared on the 2048 Ventures Blog: 2048.vc/blog/our-thesis-on-s… --- At @2048vc, we are excited to back hardware based companies that are creating the future. Historically, however, hardware based companies also face unique challenges that impact their ability to achieve venture scale outcomes, especially when compared to their software peers. In this post, we share more about the specific types of hardware companies we want to back. Spoiler: we want to fund businesses that use low cost hardware & sensors that capture proprietary and valuable data. Why hardware is hard Hardware solutions are non-trivial to build due to the obvious physical requirements and dependencies. The time associated with hardware procurement slows down iteration cycles, and means that companies need to spend larger amounts of capital on their prototype or MVP before they can get it in the hands of their first customer and collect field data. Secondly, hardware sales also require significant upfront capital investment. Early stage companies need sufficient capital to build the system and deliver it to a customer before ever seeing a dollar in return. All of this significantly slows the time to market. Lastly, pure capex heavy hardware leads to linear growth. The ability of a hardware company to grow revenue is effectively a function of how many units can be sold. The linear dependency on capital makes it more difficult to achieve a venture scale outcome. Sensors SaaS offer cost-efficient and scalable approach Our belief is that certain types of hardware plays are much more likely to achieve that exponential growth curve. The critical components of these hardware companies is that they: -Use low cost hardware -Use that hardware as a sensor, sometimes literally and sometimes figuratively, to capture proprietary and valuable data -Sell SaaS that uses this data to perform and control mission critical workflows This approach is attractive because the companies leveraging low cost hardware have lower capital costs and quicker time to market. This helps them stay lean and iterate faster in product design and with early customers. It also helps them scale faster with existing customers and meet demand quickly. The second and third components are the most critical, because they promote both stickiness and opportunities for nonlinear growth. Hardware that does not collect proprietary data is at risk of not being sticky with customers due to a lack of strong moats. For example, when a company comes out with a robot that is 2x as efficient at moving boxes as the existing leader in the space, customers will switch. There is no moat or lock-in mechanism that compels customers to stay, as they will always pick the cheapest way to complete a given task. When you are collecting data, you can then use it to own and orchestrate entire workflows rather than individual tasks. This leads to a much stickier business model and much stronger moats. We have written about why systems of record are so powerful - they are the gatekeepers for mission critical data that users depend on everyday. Hardware should be thought of as the Trojan Horse, the means to the end, to collect this data in ways that were previously not possible and fuel a brand new system of record, workflow, and orchestration layer for customers. Once data is within a system of record, it opens up the potential to build an entire platform around it through software. You can add more features and downstream workflows that leverage this data to provide even more value for customers. Rather than completing one task, the hardware and SaaS combo enables your customers to reimagine entire roles and workflows within their organization - from data collection, to insight, to execution. It becomes the new standard for getting things done and is very hard to rip-and-replace. On top of the stickiness benefits, this models also allows you to expand ACV without increasing units of hardware in the wild. Rather than a one time hardware sale, each customer becomes an opportunity for non-linear growth as more features and workflows can be orchestrated through software. Examples in action from the 2048 portfolio At 2048, we’ve been lucky to invest in many companies using hardware in this way to collect proprietary data and leverage it to transform how their customers solve problems every day. @h2okinnovations allows manufacturers and data centers to track the composition, quality and consistency of their operations in real time using low-cost IoT sensors. Prior to this, their customers needed to manually test batches and systems at regular intervals. More real time data means they can can adapt the second something goes wrong. On top of collecting and storing this data, H2OK is also the engine that uses this live data to optimize all of the water and industrial processes in real time based on sensor feedback. In data centers, this enables critical temperature regulation. In factories, it reduces the need for over-treating water with expensive chemicals. @PathSpot is a comprehensive health and safety operating system for hospitality and restaurants. They install low cost hardware in customer facilities, such as hand scanners to make sure employees have properly washed hands, and temperature and humidity scanners that make sure food stays safely stored. These devices act as sensors to collect all of the necessary data about the safety and cleanliness of customer facilities. Their software then leverages all of this data to help kitchen managers instantly generate the detailed operational reports and safety/compliance reporting to management and regulators. Lastly, @ImpiloPlatform helps doctors and healthcare providers procure and provision low cost medical devices, such as glucometers and heart monitors, to their patients. These devices are very common already, but a big challenge for doctors is getting patients to accurately report the data from these devices. Impilo solves this by providing APIs which collect device data for each patient, allowing healthcare providers to have a more complete and real-time picture of patient health data. By providing common medical devices conveniently and at a low cost, Impilo is able to unlock even more valuable insights through proprietary patient data - not just at the individual level, but at the population level as well. Looking into the future We are obsessed with companies that leverage low cost hardware to collect proprietary data and own critical workflows for customers. These companies enjoy capital efficiency and have strong potential for venture scale outcomes. As the world around us produces more and more data, we see the inevitability of sensors measuring everything - from human beings, to the environment, to company processes, and everything else. If you are building SaaS that is enabled through hardware-based data capture, we would love to talk to you! Reach out to us and tell us more: airtable.com/appV89PYGo3zN47…

What @McDonalds should really do is roll out @PathSpot hand scanners and safety suite in every single location!

Excited to share our latest @2048vc thesis series. Here you will find our Thesis on 11 Startup Ideas We Want to Fund. If you are a founder in these spaces, please reach out! This post is written by @JulieMarieWolf and originally appeared on the 2048 Ventures Blog: 2048.vc/blog/2048-vc-investm… --- At @2048vc, we are obsessed with imagining the future and predicting how the world will change in 5-10 years, enabled by nascent infrastructure and data-based technologies. We are actively looking for companies building into this future. In the past months, we have discussed several specific ideas based on where we believe the world is heading. We are excited to share these now, outlining the startup ideas that we are seeking to fund. This is an active request for founders working in any of these areas to reach out or to share your materials to 2048.vc/pitch-us. Watch for these to be updated quarterly. You can follow our longer thesis collection here: 2048.vc/blog-category/though… Deep Tech Infrastructure Next-Generation Drone Inspection and Monitoring -We seek solutions that leverage drones to capture data from and/or monitor critical assets autonomously. -These companies would leverage advances in drone autonomy and loosening restrictions around beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) to perform more frequent, detailed, and cost-effective monitoring of sites. -Ideal platforms would also own the downstream data processing and workflows to be a fully vertically integrated solution. Drone Communication Infrastructure -We seek next-gen drone operating systems which improve the resiliency and reliability of autonomous multi-drone systems or environments. -These platforms would enable complex communication and coordination between drones in situations where human decision making is not needed or not possible. -The drone infrastructure market is $900M today and growing to $16B by 2030, representing a quickly growing and exciting market opportunity. Real-Time IoT Sensor Innovations -We seek companies developing low-cost sensors for real-time data monitoring. -We are agnostic on exact market but have seen success in quality control and compliance spaces through our investments with @h2okinnovations and @PathSpot. We also see clear applications in the manufacturing space. -Commodity or low-cost sensors are a fantastic trojan horse to capture data. Additional SaaS products can be built on top of these databases, adding value through dynamic measurements of parameters that facilitate real-time alerts or compliance procedures. B2B Platforms Wealth Management Software for HNW individuals -We seek software solutions for next-gen family offices and HNWI. -Family offices increased from 6,130 in 2019 to 8,030 today, with an expected 10,720 expected by 2030. These offices are increasingly tech-focused, with an interest in portfolio diversification, including direct investments. -Platforms would enable customers to manage multiple asset classes, and make recommendations based on long-term goals. Scam Detection for Individuals and Businesses -We seek software solutions that protect individuals and businesses from online-based scams and social engineering-based attacks. -Platforms would enable users to quickly determine if content was legitimate and, if impacted, immediately perform next best steps to mitigate economic damage from an attack. -The need is driven in part by advancements in gen AI that facilitate fraud and other malicious activities that have resulted in a quickly expanding global fraud detection market. Health Apps for Chronic Care Management -We seek an integrated care management platform for patients with chronic conditions. -The platform should integrate medical, lifestyle, biometric, and environmental factors to help patients optimally prevent or manage chronic conditions such headache, respiratory conditions, hormone diseases, neurodegeneration. -We are open to business models that integrate with healthcare systems and clinics or go direct-to-consumer to expand patient care. -See our longer thesis here: 2048.vc/blog/our-thesis-on-c… Healthcare Security Surveillance -We seek next-generation security and compliance platforms for healthcare. -Massive security breaches shine light on the need for innovation. Even state attorneys general have sounded the alarm since the Change Healthcare and other breaches. -We see immense potential for software to surveil and protect patient data, prevent cyber attacks, and streamline compliance and regulatory requirements for health systems, practices, digital health, and connected devices. Healthcare Financial Intelligence -We seek innovations in healthcare financial infrastructure: new payment rails, revenue intelligence, and recovery. -Specifically we are looking for approaches with deep understandings and capture of existing workflows, with AI applications to ultimately re-invent and automate them. -The market is ripe for disruption with fragmented solutions across the continuum between health systems, small practices, digital health companies, payers, and the third-parties between them. -As a result, we see an opportunity to replace manual, outsourced and error-prone workflows with precision and automation. We are excited about the potential for innovation in healthcare payments to reduce inefficiencies and shift the industry towards value-based models. Tech Bio Biobank Infrastructure -We seek a next-gen operating system tailored for bio-repositories that embraces a data-centric approach and integrates advanced analytics -An ideal product supports emerging types of biological information, ensures easy sample tracking, and guarantees security and authenticity -Biobanking is a growing market and we believe a strong biobanking infrastructure holds immense potential to supercharge collaboration, research, and transparency -See our longer thesis here: 2048.vc/blog/our-thesis-on-b… Biomarkers for Mental Health -We seek innovations in mental illness to push the frontier of the field toward more objective, quantifiable, and specific biomarkers for mental health -An ideal platform includes blood- or saliva-based biomarkers based on sample accessibility and current testing infrastructure -We believe multiple solutions are needed to transform the way patients are diagnosed, monitored, and treated for the the 1 in 20 U.S. adults suffering serious mental illness or the 16.5% of youth who experience mental health disorders Omics Infrastructure Tools -We seek analysis tools for large ‘omics datasets. The core innovation is tied to software and will likely include novel chemistry or biology. -We are bullish on many datasets but are especially interested in finding applications in the microbiome, proteomics, and immunology spaces. -We think a service model can optimize for data capture, and provides long-tail value through additional analytics software.

Christine Schindler, co-founder of PathSpot, is on a mission to detect harmful pathogens —before they make you sick. entrepreneur.com/starting-a-…

Christine Schindler, co-founder of PathSpot, is on a mission to detect harmful pathogens —before they make you sick. entrepreneur.com/starting-a-…

Christine Schindler, co-founder of PathSpot, is on a mission to detect harmful pathogens —before they make you sick. entrepreneur.com/starting-a-…

PathSpot has raised $23.5 million and deployed its technology in over 10,000 locations. entrepreneur.com/starting-a-…

PathSpot has raised $23.5 million and deployed its technology in over 10,000 locations. entrepreneur.com/starting-a-…

PathSpot has raised $23.5 million and deployed its technology in over 10,000 locations. entrepreneur.com/starting-a-…

📣 New Podcast! "89. Christine Schindler, CEO of Pathspot Technologies Talks Food Safety and Serving Others" on @Spreaker spreaker.com/episode/89-chri…

🗞️ 2048 Ventures Portfolio Company News: The Clean Tech You Need: @PathSpot CEO Christine Schindler at @Nasdaq ipo-edge.com/the-clean-you-n… @PathSpot // @2048vc // #startups // #VC

Watch this epic @IPOEdge interview with Christine Schindler CEO of @PathSpot I am the lucky 2x -- first, and later stage check! ipo-edge.com/the-clean-you-n…