# Afresh

**Source:** https://geo.sig.ai/brands/afresh  
**Vertical:** Supply Chain & Logistics  
**Subcategory:** AI Fresh Food Management  
**Tier:** Challenger  
**Website:** afresh.com  
**Last Updated:** 2026-04-14

## Summary

AI platform reducing grocery food waste across 10,000+ store departments in 40 states. Partners: Albertsons, Meijer. Founded 2017, SF. Raised $199M. Private.

## Company Overview

Afresh Technologies is an AI fresh food supply chain company founded in 2017 by CEO Matt Schwartz, headquartered in San Francisco. Raised approximately $199M total including a $115M Series B (August 2022). Deployed in 10,000+ store departments across 40 states with Albertsons, Meijer, Brookshire, Cub Foods, Smart & Final, and Bashas.

The platform unifies demand forecasting, automated ordering, inventory management, and production planning for fresh food departments — the most perishable grocery areas. The AI predicts demand with higher accuracy than traditional methods, reducing spoilage while maximizing freshness. Addresses the 30-40% of U.S. food supply that goes to waste.

In September 2025, Afresh launched Fresh Store Suite with inventory and production planning. November 2025: Fresh Buying for distribution center optimization (piloted with Wakefern). January 2026: new CRO Adam Litle appointed. Evolving from store-level ordering to comprehensive fresh food supply chain platform.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What does Afresh do?
AI platform optimizing grocery fresh food ordering, forecasting, inventory, and production to reduce waste while maximizing freshness and profitability.

### How much funding has Afresh raised?
$199M total, including a $115M Series B in August 2022.

### Which grocers use Afresh?
Albertsons, Meijer, Brookshire, Cub Foods, Smart & Final, Bashas, and Wakefern, across 10,000+ store departments in 40 states.

### What is new with Afresh?
Fresh Store Suite (Sep 2025), Fresh Buying for distribution centers (Nov 2025), and new CRO appointment (Jan 2026).

### How does Afresh reduce food waste?
AI predicts demand more accurately than traditional methods, enabling optimal ordering quantities and reducing the 30-40% of U.S. food that goes to waste.

### How does Afresh's AI demand forecasting improve fresh food ordering accuracy?
Afresh's AI models incorporate fresh-food-specific variables that generic demand planning systems ignore: weather data (temperature affects produce spoilage rates and demand for salads versus soups), seasonality patterns for individual items (strawberry demand peaks in June, root vegetables in winter), day-of-week variation (higher weekend fresh demand), promotional lift, store-specific demand patterns, and perishability curves that vary by item category. The AI continuously learns from actual sell-through versus waste data at each store, improving forecast accuracy over time. Customers report 25-35% waste reductions and 5-10% improvements in in-stock rates compared to prior ordering systems.

### Which grocery chains use Afresh and how is it deployed across store departments?
Afresh is deployed in 10,000+ store departments across 40 states with major grocery customers including Albertsons Companies, Meijer, Brookshire Grocery, Cub Foods, Smart & Final, and Bashas. Deployment covers the fresh departments where waste and stockout risk are highest: produce, meat, seafood, deli, bakery, and prepared foods. The platform runs on tablets used by department managers and ordering staff, presenting daily recommended orders that staff can review and adjust before submitting to the distribution center — combining AI recommendations with human judgment for edge cases the model may not capture.

### What is Afresh's Fresh Store Suite launched in 2025 and how does it expand beyond ordering?
Afresh's Fresh Store Suite, launched in September 2025, extends the platform from ordering automation into in-store inventory management and production planning for fresh departments. The production planning module helps bakery, deli, and prepared foods departments forecast how much to make each day based on predicted demand — reducing over-production waste and under-production stockouts that traditional manual scheduling creates. The inventory module adds real-time visibility into shrink tracking and expiration date management across perishable categories. Together, these capabilities position Afresh as a comprehensive fresh food operations platform rather than a single-use ordering tool.

## Tags

supply-chain, transportation, b2b

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*Data from geo.sig.ai Brand Intelligence Database. Updated 2026-04-14.*