Loamy raises $6MM to cut food waste in produce supply chain

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27, 2026 — Loamy, which builds an agentic AI operations platform for the food supply chain, today announced $6 million in seed funding led by Zeal Capital Partners, with participation from Slauson & Co., Supply Change Capital, and Amplify.LA, bringing its total funding to $10 million to date.

The company helps growers, packers and distributors stop losing food between the field and the store. Loamy says it has cut product rejections in half for its customers.

About 40% of food is lost between the farm and the consumer, and about 75% of that loss happens before it reaches a retailer. The chain still runs on WhatsApp messages, spreadsheets and email threads.

Retailers set exact specs for color, size, testing, volume and delivery day, and weather, missing documentation, or even the improper packing materials used can push a harvest outside of the spec requirements. When a load misses its spec after it ships, the grower has about a day to find another buyer, and the fruit often goes in the trash.

Loamy tracks its customers’ field lots with AI-enhanced satellite imagery and uses infrared analysis to detect browning before the human eye can, so sales teams can send that fruit to a processor or juicer weeks ahead.

The same platform scores produce condition from photos at receiving, cooling and shipping, reads supplier documents that arrive by email, reviews inspection forms for problems and traces every order back to its field lot with FSMA 204 records and PTI labels. Field crews run it on any phone or tablet, even without a cell signal. Charles Julius, who led Procore’s app marketplace and later Motive’s new verticals enterprise unit, founded Loamy in 2024 with Jason Pesek, who led product, compliance and customer success initiatives at Motive.

Customers include lettuce producers and general distributors that sell produce, meat and grains. Loamy says the platform usually pays for itself in the first month, when it flags a load that would have been rejected, and that it has onboarded customers in under two weeks. Annual recurring revenue has grown more than 30 times over the past year, with net revenue retention above 500% and no customer churn.

“A strawberry grower puts about $35,000 into every acre and can still watch a $40,000 load go in the trash because nobody knew it would miss the buyer’s spec,” said Loamy Co-Founder and CEO Charles Julius. “That is an information problem, and it is solvable. When a grower sees it weeks earlier, the fruit goes to a buyer who wants it.”

“Margin pressure and labor constraints are accelerating AI adoption across the food industry. Platforms that connect inventory, logistics, labor and finance have a significant opportunity to reshape how businesses operate, empower their workforce and improve financial performance,” said Nasir Qadree, founder and managing partner of Zeal Capital Partners.

The funding will scale Loamy’s engineering and go-to-market teams, advance its AI product roadmap and expand the platform into new food categories.

About Loamy
Loamy is an operations hub for the food supply chain. Growers, packers, processors and distributors use it to run food safety, quality, inventory, orders and FSMA 204 traceability in one system. Founded in 2024 by Charles Julius and Jason Pesek, Loamy is based in Los Angeles and backed by Zeal Capital Partners, Supply Change Capital, Slauson & Co., Amplify.LA and Fulcrum Global Capital. Learn more at getloamy.com.

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