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Full Harvest
Full Harvest built the first business-to-business online marketplace connecting farmers with commercial produce buyers to sell fruits and vegetables of every grade, including surplus and imperfect produce that would otherwise rot on the farm. Founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Christine Moseley, the company raised roughly $45 million to digitize a produce supply chain that had run largely offline, tackling the fact that more than a quarter of edible produce never leaves the farm. In its latest chapter, Full Harvest is repositioning around FullHarvest.ai, an agentic orchestration layer that applies a decade of produce data and network relationships to coordinate the volatile, fragmented food supply chain.
Benjamin Chesler
Benjamin Chesler is the CEO of North Spore, a Portland, Maine company that sells mushroom grow kits, spawn, sterile substrates and fungi wellness products to home and commercial growers. Before mushrooms, he co-founded Imperfect Foods, the grocery delivery startup that rescued cosmetically imperfect produce and recovered more than 250 million pounds of food. A Brown graduate and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, he is a self-described systems thinker who got his start co-founding the Food Recovery Network as a college student and later helped build startup programs at Northeastern's Roux Institute.