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Perfekto

Grocery subscription service against food waste in Latam

InactiveChecked 16h ago
Batch
S21
Status, per YC
Inactive
Team size
33
HQ
Mexico City, CDMX
In S21391 companies, 34% AI
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About Perfekto

Over 1/3 of food is being thrown away and in Latin America 72% of it prior to the consumer stage. Mainly due to physical imperfections or surplus production, despite being fresh and edible. Perfekto offers a grocery subscription box with imperfect and surplus food, home-delivered. Thereby, consumers save time and money while reducing food waste. The founders are experienced leaders scaling startups & grocery operations. Anahí previously led the Uber Grocery initiative for Latam. Jan scaled Swiss FinTech Sonect to pre-Series B and to Mexico. Juan led Walmart's eCommerce logistics and operations in Mexico. By the end of 2022, Perfekto had: 🌱 rescued over 500,000kgs of food from being wasted 🚚 delivered over 60,000 orders 📈 grown 1,120% year-over-year 🥖 gone beyond just produce and now help rescue items like bread or packaged goods from companies like Heartbest Foods, Bové, Tuny - with major multinationals in the pipeline 💚 become a beloved brand with an NPS of 70 🫂 built an online community of over 20,000 people and several thousand homes receiving Perfekto boxes

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Perfekto: questions

Which YC batch was Perfekto in?

Perfekto was in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch (S21).

Is Perfekto still active?

Y Combinator lists Perfekto as inactive.

Where is Perfekto based?

Perfekto lists Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico as its location on YC's directory.

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