Irish company, FoodCloud will be pitching to Richard Branson tomorrow after reaching the finale of the Virgin Media Business VOOM 2016 entrepreneur competition.
After an extensive nationwide search, 3,000 entries, half a million votes and one Guinness World Record title, FoodCloud has made it through to the finale of the Virgin Media Business ‘VOOM 2016’ competition.
FoodCloud is a not-for-profit social enterprise that has developed a unique solution to this problem through connecting businesses with surplus food with charities in their local communities that need it through a technology platform.
Co -Founders Iseult Ward and Aoibheann O’Brien launched FoodCloud in October 2013 with one Tesco store in Dublin and the business grew from that moment, redistributing 2.9 million meals equivalent to charities across Ireland and the UK to date.
Iseult will be pitching to Richard Branson and a panel of business heavyweights including Tyra Banks, Sara Blakely Marcus Butler and Virgin Media Business Managing Director, Peter Kelly, at the live finale tomorrow 28th June.
FoodCloud will go head to head with two other businesses in the Grow category for a slice of the €1.2 million prize fund. As well as the six final pitches, there are four other awards being presented - the Impact Award, the Great Award, the Crowdfunder Award and the People’s Choice Award.
Virgin Founder, Richard Branson commented, "Congratulations to FoodCloud for making it through to the finale of the Virgin Media Business ‘VOOM’ competition. They’ve shown they’ve got the determination and innovative flair we’re looking for in a winner and I can’t wait to meet them at the final on the 28th."
Source: www.businessworld.ie
