FoodOp
FoodOp
Digital platform helping kitchens reduce food waste
Investment vertical
- Food & agricultureabout /verticals/food-and-agricultureFood & agriculture
Stage
- Pre-seed
Website
foodop.io about https://foodop.io/The challenge
Approximately 5 million tonnes of food are wasted each year in the EU alone. In professional kitchens, food waste is often a symptom of inefficient operations, resulting in unnecessary CO₂ emissions, higher costs, and lost productivity. Many kitchens lack the tools to track waste or optimize menu planning, making it difficult to improve their environmental footprint.
The solution
FoodOp provides a digital platform that helps professional kitchens reduce food waste, CO₂ emissions, and administrative workload. By tracking food consumption and waste patterns, FoodOp delivers actionable data for smarter menu planning and more efficient kitchen operations, enabling kitchens to improve sustainability while maintaining quality and productivity.
Footprint team
- Trine Carlsen about ?overlay=trine-carlsen
tca@thefootprintfirm.com about mailto:tca@thefootprintfirm.comTrine Carlsen
Senior Associate
Jakob brings expertise in management consulting and business development, with an emphasis on strategy and transformation projects. At The Footprint Firm, Jakob specialises in sustainability in private equity at fund and portfolio company level. He has strong experience in working with sustainability in a value creation sense incl. CSRD readiness / DMA, ESG strategy, decarbonization & target setting and sustainability alignment (EU Taxonomy and SFDR / article 9). He also has extensive experience with transaction processes on both the buyer- and seller-side running multiple ESG DD and VDD processes.
Before joining The Footprint Firm, Jakob worked 2+ years as Director of Business Development in Arla Foods responsible for Strategy & Business Development in Arla’s International markets (outside Europe) as well as leading a team of global business development managers across the globe.
Before Arla, Jakob was a Manager at QVARTZ (now Bain & Co), where he advised in the Consumer Goods and Private Equity sector. Jakob’s project experience includes strategy, transformation, commercial excellence, organization, sourcing excellence and M&A. Jakob’s industry experience also covers engagements in the automotive, energy and construction sector.
Prior to QVARTZ, Jakob worked 2 years as a consultant in Booz & Company (now Strategy&) living in Amsterdam.
Jakob holds a Master of Science in Mathematical Modelling & Computation from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with a focus on applied statistics and operational research. Part of his degree was completed at RMIT in Melbourne.