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Fountain9

Fountain9 is a predictive inventory planning solution. We help food brands and retailers reduce food wastage and improve product availability by predicting their future inventory needs. Food wastage is a global problem that has both financial and environmental costs. An estimated $1.3 Bn tonnes of food is wasted every year and 7 - 15% of that is because of mismanaged inventory. We accurately predict future inventory imbalances which lead to out of stock situations or wastage, and also recommends

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #4691

Fountain9 is a predictive inventory planning solution. We help food brands and retailers reduce food wastage and improve product availability by predicting their future inventory needs. Food wastage is a global problem that has both financial and environmental costs. An estimated $1.3 Bn tonnes of food is wasted every year and 7 - 15% of that is because of mismanaged inventory. We accurately predict future inventory imbalances which lead to out of stock situations or wastage, and also recommends

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High Signal interpretation

Fountain9 is classified as Fintech from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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retailersfood brandsfoodpredictive inventory planning solutionFountain9food wastage
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Fintech · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Prediko

match 60

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shared extracted concept terms: inventory, plann; shared product terms: inventory, plann, predict, need

Aisle50

match 59

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shared extracted concept terms: brand; shared product terms: out, retailer, both, brand; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Nuvocargo

match 53

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shared extracted concepts: retailers; shared product terms: retailer, reduce, improve, cost; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Hedgehog

match 51

Hedgehog builds robotic mushroom farms. Our robots eliminate labor and our AI optimizes grow conditions to increase yield. We’ll soon grow mushrooms and fungi for <1/3rd the cost of leading growers. Fungi may address our food system’s biggest problems: they transform agricultural waste into protein-rich foods with near-zero environmental impact. Hedgehog’s technology is unleashing fungi as our next major food source.

shared extracted concept terms: food; shared product terms: food, problem, environmental, cost; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

StyleSage

match 46

StyleSage helps fashion brands and retailers maximize sales and optimize merchandising and planning, with data-driven insights.

shared extracted concepts: retailers; shared product terms: plann, brand, retailer

Galaxy

match 6

Other company.

shared affiliation: Y Combinator; shared cohort: Winter 2021