Hazel Technologies Closes $70 Million Series C Financing
Poised to Save Roughly 1 Billion Pounds of Wasted Produce by the End of 2021, Hazel® Turns its Attention and Resources to Global Opportunities and Impact
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CHICAGO, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Hazel Technologies, Inc., a USDA-funded agricultural technology company delivering new solutions to combat food waste, today announced that it had finalized documentation relating to a $70 million Series C financing round, which will bring the company s cumulative total raised to over $87 million. The Series C round is co-led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech), and Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore. The oversubscribed Series C round has also attracted new and returning investors S2G Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, Rhapsody Venture Partners, Asahi Kasai Ventures, Jordan Park Group, and the Jeremy and Hannelore Gran
Hazel Tech hires account executive
Hazel Technologies Inc. announces Alex Jimenez has joined the company as an AgTech account executive.
Jimenez joins Hazel Tech following several years of supply side service at IFCO specializing in account management and business development with growers and retailers. Prior to IFCO, he worked at Kroger as a buyer and inspector focused on quality improvement programs with growers, warehouse inspectors and division merchandisers. Jimenez will manage Hazel Tech’s rapidly expanding customer base and commercial operations in the Southwest, Mexico and other key territories.
More than 160 grower-packer-shippers across 12 countries have partnered with Hazel Tech as a pre and postharvest technology provider. Founded in 2015, Hazel’s technology is academically validated, USDA-funded and easy to use. Hazel sachets are placed in boxes of bulk produce by commercial growers at harvest, extending the shelf-life of produce up to three times by slowing aging
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Hazel Tech to host first annual Cherry Quality Summit
March 19 , 2021
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Hazel Technologies, Inc., a USDA-funded technology company delivering new solutions for fresh produce to extend shelf-life, increase sales, and fight food waste, announces the launch of the first-ever virtual Cherry Quality Summit. A one-hour event will be held on Friday, March 26th, the summit will feature keynote speakers from across the industry ahead of the 2021 Northern American cherry season.
Speakers will include Dr. Yu Dong, former Horticulture Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Oregon State University - Hood River Agricultural Extension Office, Anne-Marie Roerink, Founder and Principal of 210 Analytics, David Ortega, Orchard View Cherries, Director of Packaging Operations, and Mario Cervantes, Senior Business Development Manager at Hazel Technologies, Inc.
Announcing the first annual Cherry Quality Summit
Hazel® Technologies, Inc. is launching its first-ever virtual Cherry Quality Summit. The one-hour event will be held on Friday March 26th and features keynote speakers from across the industry ahead of the 2021 Northern American cherry season.
Speakers include Dr. Yu Dong, former horticulture post-doctoral research associate at Oregon State University Hood River Agricultural Extension Office; Anne-Marie Roerink, founder/principal of 210 Analytics; David Ortega, director of packaging operations, Orchard View Cherries; and Mario Cervantes, senior business development manager, Hazel Technologies, Inc.
L-R: Dr. Yu Dong; Anne-Marie Roerink; David Ortega; Mario Cervantes.
Keynote speeches will highlight the latest research on cherry post-harvest quality, including stem greening, dehydration and pitting. In addition, speakers will discuss new cherry quality technology that has been tested by Oregon State and Cornell Universities on Bing