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Afresh, the first artificial intelligence-powered fresh food optimization platform for grocers, announced on Thursday that grocery industry veteran James McCann, CEO of Food Retail Ventures and former CEO of Ahold USA, has joined as a new member of its Board of Directors.
The company also announced that it has raised $13 million in new funding led by Food Retail Ventures and joined by existing investors Innovation Endeavors, Maersk Growth, and Baseline Ventures.
“I believe that the fresh ordering technology that Afresh has pioneered is set to become one of the most important technologies in food retail,” said McCann (left). “The improvements to freshness, sales, shrink, labor and, as a consequence,...