The Crisp Blog

In previous blog posts about how food businesses can be a successful partner to retail buyers, we’ve discussed how important it is to share data that only you have with your customers in the food supply chain. Our goal at Crisp is to help food manufacturers be the partner of choice. However, while your data...

Understanding which products are likely to appear in a shopper’s cart is a valuable advantage for retailers. The possibilities are vast – that is, as good as your ability to gather and analyze product and buyer data. Crisp uses machine learning and historical data to help retailers predict product demand on a vast and complex...

The rampant spread of COVID-19 and the subsequent actions taken to “flatten the curve” have disrupted daily life in ways and at speed never before experienced. One overarching characteristic of grocery shopping in the COVID-19 era is ‘switching’. McKinsey reports that 75% of consumers have tried a new store, different way of shopping, or brand...

As a busy food supplier, you may feel that your biggest concern is delivering your product on time and as ordered. But taking the time to build a positive relationship with retail buyers is just as important. After all, without these connections you wouldn’t have anyone to supply food to.

As supply chains struggle through the pandemic to produce, ship and stock critical food products, companies are racing to deploy technology that can leverage big data, create visibility across partners, and better match supply with demand. To maximize on the market opportunity, Crisp announced today, as reported in TechCrunch, the close of our $12M Series A round of...

No one can see exactly what the future will bring. With the right tools, however, anyone can see the past, and for businesses that can be a great start. 

2020 has been quite the whirlwind of shattered assumptions and unexpected disruption across the global economy. From travel to restaurants and everything in-between, the world is adjusting to a laundry list of “new normals” as this year proves to be one full of challenges and transformations.

The team at Crisp is honored to announce that our company was selected as a finalist in the Food Category and received honorable mention in the Artificial Intelligence and Data Category from Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards, announced on April 28, 2020.

When you’re in the business of serving other businesses by providing a way to reduce food waste, you could say that here at Crisp, we take Earth Day pretty seriously.  In fact, every day at Crisp is Earth Day.  

The corona virus is raging among the world’s economies. ‘Flattening the curve’ is saving our health, but nearly everyone’s life has suddenly been cast up into the cloud. On Wednesday this week we had dinner with a couple of friends in New York. We were in Miami. Yesterday, my 10-year old son had karate training...