CircEco
CircEco: Towards circular economy in food waste using a cloud platform
CircEco has developed a digital marketplace that enables private citizens, farmers, businesses, public organisations to sell their surplus food, close-to-expiry, ugly foods directly to food processors who transforms the foods into new consumables.
The marketplace is developed by extending Digiotouch’s cloud-based, secure, scalable Paradise Platform and has been validated with real customers by Green Point at Murska Sobota in Slovenia.
The main benefit is that the marketplace allows any private citizen or businesses to be directly a part of circular economy solution while earning revenue by selling surplus food, close-to-expiry, ugly foods, which otherwise become food waste.
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CircEco’s expectations from the acceleration programme:
- Business plan and commercialisation mentorship
- Seed grant
DigiCirc’s financial support: €110,000
DigiCirc support was used to improve, test and validate the marketplace with real customers in Slovenia and for the marketing campaign to launch the platform.
The team signed a partnership for commercialising CircEco in Slovenia. They concluded 13 successful commercial transactions, accessing 100+ regional customers through Green Point network and 700+ B2B European customers through the DIH AGRIFOOD.

Meet the team

Debolina Paul
MBA, Project manager, and business developer for Estonia and 5+ years of experience.

Daniel Copot
Business Development Manager, DIH AGRIFOOD and 20+ years of experience.

Sasa Straus
Senior Expert at DIH-AGRIFOOD and 10+ years of experience.