How growing up hungry prompted one startup founder to tackle food waste and hunger

Eric Weaver: "I grew up in a 1970s Michigan household with a single mother who made $5 per haircut. Through sheer force of will, she fed and clothed three kids and herself on a salary well below the poverty line.

"In my first job during college, I coded a software program for tracking food produce shipments. And over the years, I found myself drawn to food-related causes as I got older, including cooking for homeless shelters and stocking food banks.

"Things come full-circle, and now my new startup uses advanced technologies like 5G, the Internet of Things, predictive intelligence and blockchain to track where food shipments came from, how they got to retailers, and what happened to them along the way — alerting companies when conditions jeopardize food shipments so they can be saved.

"And we're thrilled to be working with Feeding the Northwest as our first customer.

"We're currently wasting 25% of our freshwater draining dwindling aquifers to grow food going directly into landfills. We're fracking oil to power tractors, farms and fishing boats that produce food that goes directly into landfills. We're dragging the bottom of the ocean with nets and then discarding 50% of our catch. If we're going to exhaust our ecosystem, shouldn't we conserve and use as much of the food we produce as possible?"

Real-time supply chain visibility lets us watch food shipments and intervene when something goes sideways, saving shipments and keeping billions of pounds of food out of landfills.

Join us in our mission to reduce food waste and hunger. Learn more at https://xparent.io.

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