Suburban Collection and Gleaners feed children?  Grant Program for LGBTQ businesses?
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Date: 2021-09-23

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Title: Suburban Collection and Gleaners feed children?  Grant Program for LGBTQ businesses? 

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When founder Somdip Dey was a computer science master's student at the University of Manchester, his parents got in a terrible car accident. He sent all of his money back to his parents in India to help with their medical bills, but then he faced a problem familiar to too many: If he wasn’t going to get paid for another week, how was he supposed to feed himself?

“Luckily, this happened around when the summer holiday started, so a lot of students were moving out and literally throwing away unopened food,” Dey remembered. “I realized that there’s too much waste that could be used by other people who might need it.”

This helped him stay fed in a time of crisis, but as an AI researcher, he started to think about how technology could help reduce food waste and get hungry people fed. As Dey finished his master's and moved on to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of Essex, he developed a company called Nosh Technologies alongside co-founder Suman Saha.

With almost 13,000 users across Android and iOS, the Nosh app helps users log their groceries’ expiration dates to remind them to use what they bought before it goes bad.

Using AI, the app learns about user’s consumption and waste habits, producing weekly analytics that helps the user reduce their waste and save money at the grocery store. The app can scan barcodes and even grocery receipts directly into the app, but users can also input data manually. Then, once the contents of a user’s pantry and fridge are loaded into the app, they can search for existing recipes online that will help them use up their stock before it goes to waste.

In the future, Dey wants to offer a premium subscription, which would include access to an AI that would generate new, personalized recipes based on what food you have at home.

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