Kraken Sense
Stopping food recalls in their tracks.
* Data source: Crunchbase
- Founded
- 2018
- Employees*
- 1-10
- Funding to Date*
- $250K
- Website
- krakensense.com
Pathogen outbreaks don't just affect the company--the "scare" eventually affects the entire sector, and this is a huge economic loss
In the US, food and water-borne pathogens produce over 300 recalls per year. This is happening, despite modern technology, because culture testing takes 3 days. In 3 days, produce and meat can already be distributed all over the continent.
Kraken Sense is bringing real-time testing, with results in under five minutes, to large-scale food and water systems. Deployable throughout the system — farms, processors, kitchens — their technology blunts the toll that food recalls take by eliminating the time delays in food safety testing. Their in-line autonomous device uses carbon nanotube-based, single-use cartridges to perform strain-specific pathogen detection and quantitation on-site.
