Irish start-up FoodCloud were celebrating this week after winning a €24,000 price, a Virgin Media Business broadband package, mentoring and brand support in the finals of the Virgin Media Business VOOM 2016 Competition.
FoodCloud is a social enterprise that connects 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.
Vice President of Virgin Media Business in Ireland, Gavan Smyth said, "It’s a great achievement by FoodCloud to reach the final six, and wonderful that an Irish business made it through to the finals of this major entrepreneurial competition."
He added, "Congratulations to all our finalists and the winners, they have worked extremely hard to get here and I’m excited to see what they will do next.”
Source: www.businessworld.ie