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Food Genius is big data for the food industry. We serve up actionable, real-time data on emerging trends for the food industry and restaurant data, menus, and taste-based suggestions to app developers through the Food Genius API. By tracking more than 16.1m restaurant menu items and how consumers interact with them over time, Food Genius leverages the web and mobile apps to generate high quality and incredibly granular data for an array of commercial and consumer uses.

Founders
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  • Justin Massa
    Founder & CEO of Food Genius, data wonk. Previously Dir of Dev at Metro Chi Info Center and founder & Exec Dir at MoveSmart.org.
  • Cece Yu
    UI at Alltuition. Working on Hotseat, and contributing to Food Genius. UChicago grad. Loves product, IxD, and brands that span the digital and the physical.
  • Eli Rosenberg
    Co-founder & COO at Food Genius, ops + sales whiz. Previously senior SEM guru at Norvax, ops at Qualtex Corp.
  • E. Cooper
    Co-founder & CTO of Food Genius, API & HTML5 whiz. Previously lead dev at Brave New Films, back-end dev at SUMO (Mozilla), API dev at Social Actions.
  • Benjamin Stanley
    Co-founder & Dir of Culinary Research at Food Genius, mad chef/scientist. Previously innovation chef at major CPG, research chef at Bell Flavorings & Fragrance.
Previous Investors
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  • Excelerate
    Excelerate Labs is an intensive summer accelerator for startups driven by proven entrepreneurs and investors. Based in Chicago, IL.
  • Adam Koopersmith
    Partner at NewWorld Ventures
  • Steve Farsht
    Investor with Operating Background, Extensive Board Level Experience
Incubator
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  • Excelerate
    Excelerate Labs is an intensive summer accelerator for startups driven by proven entrepreneurs and investors. Based in Chicago, IL.
Advisors
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  • Harper Reed
    CTO at Obama for America, former CTO of Threadless and Advisor at Sandbox Industries.
  • Sam Yagan
    Founder & CEO at OkCupid.com
  • Troy Henikoff
    Troy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Excelerate & founder of SurePayroll
  • Steve Farsht
    Investor with Operating Background, Extensive Board Level Experience
  • Dylan Richard
    Director of Engineering @ Obama for America. Previously @threadless, @crateandbarrel. I'm a big fan of the internets.
  • Pascal Bordat
    Owner, Partner Optivalue
References
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  • Brian Fields
    Manage Tribune Company's acquisitions, digital media investments and joint ventures.