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The Capitalist HippieUtilizing Robotics to Solve Our Food Waste Issue — with Carissa Campeotto, Co-founder of TrendiIn Canada, we waste 60% of the food we grow, making us the worst country per capita for food waste in the world. Today’s guest is Carissa Campeotto, Co-Founder of Trendi. Trendi uses robotics, upcycling, and social change to combat the excess and unnecessary waste of misfit food from farms, retailers, cuttings from processors, and waste we produce in our homes. When Carissa was running her own juice and smoothie bar, she noticed the business was not profitable because of its high product costs. She knew there had to be a better way. Upon recommendation, she started using misfit fruits an...2023-06-2844 min
In With the NewTrendi: Using Robotics and Automation To Fight Food WasteCraig McIntosh and Carissa Campeotto are the Co-founders of Trendi, a Vancouver-based tech company reducing food waste by using robotics and automation to upcycle it into valuable products. Trendi’s BioTrim units go direct to the source — farms, fisheries, distributors — to convert surplus or unsalable (visually nonconforming) foods into shelf-stable, nutrient-dense single commodity ingredients. Because these products are processed on-site at optimal freshness, they retain a “straight from the farm” flavor but in a compact form that can be stored and transported for a fraction of the cost of fresh produce. Trendi uses the resulting freeze-dried or pureed products in its smo...2023-06-0752 min
Mind Your Marketing180 - Building a Company That Matches Your Purpose with Carissa Campeotto (Trendi)Carissa Campeotto from Trendi joins the show to talk about growing Trendi from zero to eighty employees during COVID. Hear about her journey, starting as a part owner of a juice shop to now, where she's pushing forward growth at Trendi.Cave: https://www.cavesocial.com/Carissa-Campeotto/LinkedIn: Carissa Campeotto - https://www.linkedin.com/in/carissacampeotto/Website: Trendi - https://trendi.com/Jordan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanscheltgen/Jordan's X: https://twitter.com/jor...2022-04-1918 min
Make Change StudioS02 E02: Make Change Studio with Trendi“Get comfortable being wrong and making uncomfortable choices, because that is going to happen a lot…follow your intuition”
These are not my words, it’s Craig McIntosh and Carissa Campeotto from Trendi. My name is Naghmi and today I am joined by two fabulous entrepreneurs who are on a mission to rescue food waste. They started Trendi almost at the very start of the Pandemic last year and have been successful in raising 2.25 million funding. Let’s listen to them and know more about their process.
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Trendi develops robotic and product solutions for the fo...2021-05-1151 min