We are nominated for the German federal award ‘Zu gut für die Tonne’ in the ‘Digitalization’ category. The 2021 federal award focused on the connection between food waste and global warming.
We at SPRK.global expand our B2B partner network with fruit salad producer mirontell, fruit delivery service fruiton, and care sector caterer procuratio. The innovative and sustainable fruit salad becomes our first circular product.
Leading catering provider Eurest Deutschland (Compass Group) cooperates with us at SPRK.global. Thus Eurest provides their company catering facilities with sustainable fruit products.
Surplus food reported on our trading platform is given out to Too Good To Go users in Berlin with the help of surprise bags via the app.
We have successfully closed a €6 million funding round.We use the funds primarily to expand the AI-powered trading platform.
At the official award ceremony, SPRK received the 3rd place at the German Digital Award by Handelsblatt & McKinsey overall and 1st place in the Circularity Enabler category alone. The focus topic at The Spark 2023 was Circular Economy.
We are already a team of more than 40 but we are still growing!
SPRK’s idea of building a B2B trading platform for food was born back in 2017. After a successful proof of concept, SPRK.global was finally founded in March 2020.
SPRK.global secures seven-figure seed funding. The founders of Toniebox/Boxine, the co-founder of Zanox Jens Hewald, the Corporate President of Samsung Electronics, and many other family-run companies, business angels, and entrepreneurs invest in our vision. With the fresh capital we build our technological distribution platform and expand our infrastructure and logistics.
Sustainable indulgence in Berlin: We are opening our first deli with dishes made from surplus food. The Deli by SPRK is part of the concept to redistribute and process surplus food in order to protect resources and the climate. The goal is for Germany’s capital to become free of food surplus within four years.
Together with LHIND Lufthansa Industry Solutions we are working on the digital platform to better distribute food surplus from the supply chain and conserve resources.
Our partnership with the world’s leading supplier of machines for the food industry, KRONEN has begun. By leveraging KRONEN’s network in the food industry, further fresh, high-quality food of the supply chain is redistributed for processing.
Tons of perfectly edible surplus food from the supply chain are distributed to people in the Ukraine that are in desperate need of support. Our collaboration with the German Food Bridge (a project of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture – BMEL) is exemplary for a needs-oriented approach for a meaningful redistribution of surplus food.
SPRK has been nominated as a global semi-finalist for the World Food Forum Startup Innovation Award (category Better Production) by the FAO and the Extreme Tech Challenge.
Based on the growing demand from Berlin-based individuals, we have opened our first outlet across from our Tempelhof warehouse. Now consumers can support the SPRK mission through grocery shopping at our outlet with a wide variety of produce.
