BlakBear

BlakBear tells you how fresh your food is. We replace shelf-life on fresh food with a sensor that actually knows. Founded by scientists from Imperial College, we sell new sensors and a freshness API, to improve quality control, add shelf-life and cut food waste from producer to consumer.

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BlakBear

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HQGB

Team Size14

Open Jobs1

Total Funding-

Latest FundraiseUnknown

TL;DR

Product: In‑pack digital freshness sensors + cloud dashboard and freshness API that translate gas/temperature readings into quality and shelf‑life indicators using ML.

Founded / HQ: Founded 2017; based in London, England.

Stage & funding: Seed stage; total disclosed funding listed as 2750000.00 USD (Crunchbase entries show a £2.3M seed round in Jan 2023 and a later seed round dated 2024-11-11).

Founders / leadership: Origins in the Güder Research Group at Imperial College London; identified leadership includes Dr Firat Güder (Co‑founder & Chief Scientific Advisor), Dr Max Grell (CEO), Dr Giandrin Barandun (CTO).

Use cases: Quality control, digital shelf‑life (digital expiry dates), and supply‑chain monitoring to reduce food waste.

Company Overview

Problem Domain

Food quality control, digital shelf‑life and supply‑chain monitoring to reduce food waste.

Founded

2017

Industry

Food technology

Tech Stack

Electrical/paper‑based gas sensors

Temperature sensing

Machine learning / AI models for freshness prediction

Cloud dashboard and freshness API

Wireless gateways / RFID data transmission

Data loggers

Funding Track Record

Seed- 2023-01-03

£2,300,000

Announced Jan 3, 2023; Crunchbase shows the round closed Mar 6, 2023 and lists additional investors including REMUS Capital, Ponderosa Ventures, Green Circle Capital Partners, and Tom Sturgess.

Seed- 2024-11-11

Listed on Crunchbase as a later Seed round dated 2024-11-11; some financial details are not shown in the accessible view; recent investors listed include Ferocity Capital and REMUS Capital.

Investor Signal

“Backed by seed‑stage investors including Ada Ventures, REMUS Capital, Ponderosa Ventures, Green Circle Capital Partners, Tom Sturgess and (in later listings) Ferocity Capital.”

Founders

What we do

TL;DR

Company Overview

Funding Track Record

Founders

What we do

BlakBear

blakbear.com

BlakBear

blakbear.com

HQGB

Team Size14

Open Jobs1

Total Funding-

Latest FundraiseUnknown

TL;DR

Product: In‑pack digital freshness sensors + cloud dashboard and freshness API that translate gas/temperature readings into quality and shelf‑life indicators using ML.

Founded / HQ: Founded 2017; based in London, England.

Stage & funding: Seed stage; total disclosed funding listed as 2750000.00 USD (Crunchbase entries show a £2.3M seed round in Jan 2023 and a later seed round dated 2024-11-11).

Use cases: Quality control, digital shelf‑life (digital expiry dates), and supply‑chain monitoring to reduce food waste.

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