OLIO

United Kingdom - London

• 06/10/2021
• Series B
• $43,000,000

OLIO – Make your business & home zero food waste

We connect neighbours with each other - and volunteers with local businesses - to share food (and other things), rather than throw them away. Our mission is to unlock the value of food that is wasted in the home and local community, and transform our ‘throw-away society’ into a ‘give away society’, by sharing more and wasting less.

Our solution is not only about tackling our wasteful culture, but also about building communities, bringing neighbours together and driving employee engagement. Our platform is a practical, fun and scalable solution to the biggest challenge of our time – climate change. If food waste were a country, it would be the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind China and the United States.

OLIO was founded by business women, Tessa Clarke and Saasha Celestial-One, in 2016. Starting out as a hyper-local experiment in north London, OLIO has now flourished into a global sharing movement. Check out the incredible impact we've had since we launched here: https://olioex.com/about/our-impact/

We also help hundreds of businesses accomplish their zero food waste goals via our Food Waste Heroes Programme. From leading retailers, caterers, hotels, restaurants, offices, schools, and photo shoots, our food safety trained Food Waste Heroes rescue surplus food and redistribute it to the local community via our platform.

If you’re a business that wants to reduce food waste and regularly has surplus food, please get in touch by dropping us an email at business@olioex.com.

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Tessa ClarkeCo Founder

United Kingdom - ND

A digitally native CEO and now startup founder who thrives in challenging environments, and has a strong track record of driving change. Uses excellent strategic ability to get alignment around a vision, and combines this with a collaborative but firm approach to inspire cross functional teams to (over) deliver. Not afraid to challenge the status quo. Experience includes startups, digital transformation, managing for high growth, global expansion, turnaround, acquisition and integration. Worked in both B2C and B2B across retail, media, events, and financial services, in the UK and globally. Passionate about sustainability, the circular economy and zero waste. A strong proponent of businesses that combine profit with purpose.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tecook/?originalSubdomain=uk