Small Farm Fresh

Create an efficient, transparent marketplace for farmers to sell directly to local restaurants using existing distribution infrastructure.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Food and Beverage
  • Location Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded October 2010
  • Employees 2
  • Website smallfarmfresh.com

Company Summary

We create a food marketplace and distribution model that encourages local connections from farm-to-institution, providing the freshest possible food to restaurant and institutional customers. Our technology creates a transparent marketplace. We give farmers control over pricing and charge customers an effective price that takes transportation costs and margin into account. We use existing courier services to make point-to-point deliveries.

Team

  • Dan Chak
    Founder

    Dan, an ex-Amazon engineer, is a start-up veteran who helped build CourseAdvisor, Inc (acquired by the Washington Post) from the ground up. Following CourseAdvisor, Dan was VP of Software Engineering at Fluent Mobile (Boston, MA) and Oblong Industries (Los Angeles, CA). Dan is the author of Enterprise Rails, published by top technical publisher O’Reilly Media. Dan holds a B.S. is Computer Science and a M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT.

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