Loamy raises $6M to stop produce waste before it hits shelves
What's the deal? LoamyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, which builds an agentic AI operations platform for the food supply chain, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Zeal Capital PartnersDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. Slauson & Co.Dealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Supply Change CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Amplify.LADealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → also participated, bringing the startup's total funding to $10 million.
What's the endgame? Loamy helps growers, packers, and distributors stop losing food between field and store. About 40% of food is lost before reaching consumers, and roughly 75% of that happens before it hits a retailer.
How it works: Loamy tracks field lots with AI-enhanced satellite imagery and uses infrared analysis to detect browning early, so sales teams can redirect fruit to processors weeks ahead. The platform also scores produce condition from photos, reads supplier documents, and traces orders back to field lots with FSMA 204 records. Field crews can run it on any phone, even without a signal.
By the numbers: Loamy says it has cut product rejections in half for customers, which include lettuce producers and general distributors. The company reports annual recurring revenue up more than 30 times over the past year, net revenue retention above 500%, and no customer churn.
Why now? The chain still runs on WhatsApp messages, spreadsheets, and email threads. "A strawberry grower puts about $35,000 into every acre and can still watch a $40,000 load go in the trash because nobody knew it would miss the buyer's spec," said co-founder and chief executive officer Charles Julius. "That is an information problem, and it is solvable."
Charles Julius, who led Procore's app marketplace and later Motive's new verticals unit, founded Loamy in 2024 with Jason Pesek, formerly of Motive. The funding will scale engineering and go-to-market teams, advance the AI product roadmap, and expand into new food categories.
The signal: The round is a bet on applied AI for an under-digitized supply chain under margin and labor pressure. "Margin pressure and labor constraints are accelerating AI adoption across the food industry," said Nasir Qadree, founder and managing partner of Zeal Capital Partners. Still, Loamy's performance and retention figures are company-reported, and FDA food-traceability enforcement has been pushed to July 2028 — making the regulatory tailwind less immediate than it might appear.
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