BON HARVEST

Bon Harvest is a New York-based AgTech startup that offers an Inventory Management software platform specifically built to improve how farms and restaurants work together. The platform simplifies produce inventory entry and tracking, streamlines negotiations between growers and buyers, and leverages AI and data analytics to generate custom business insights for users. In addition to the software platform, Bon Harvest offers its farming customers with the option to receive immediate payments on t... heir shipped orders, as most farmers end up waiting weeks to be paid on fulfilled orders. Founded in 2016, Bon Harvest initially started as a food distributor in New York City, specializing in the distribution of "ugly produce." However, after three years of working alongside 70 farms and 30 different restaurants, a more pressing and unaddressed problem revealed itself: farmers and chefs don't have a consistent or reliable way to interact over produce availability, and for the most part, get by using emailed Excel spreadsheets. This inefficient method of communication has a few consequences for both sides: wasted food, wasted time, and perhaps more importantly, a wasted opportunity to leverage data that could be used to improve business operations.More