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RootGlobal.io provides a data-driven climate strategy for food manufacturers to reach net-zero emissions. It collects verified data from agricultural operations, calculates corporate and product CO2 footprints, and identifies high-impact reduction levers while managing climate data across the organization. Its approach guarantees methodology compliance and models ten-year scenarios to pick the most significant reduction levers, targeting more than 80% emissions reduction. The goal is to help food and beverage manufacturers measure, plan, and reduce their climate impact to achieve net-zero.
About Root Global
Industries
Food & Agriculture
Data & Analytics
Consulting
Enterprise Software
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$11.6M
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2022
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What believers are saying
- Root posted a June 2026 jobs page and LinkedIn hiring, signaling active expansion.
- Its site said the 2025 €8 million round funds more raw materials, calculators, and geographies.
- New pilots with Müller Gruppe, Hochland Group, OSI Europe, and a global fast-food chain expand pipeline.
What critics are saying
- Food manufacturers delay integrations, starving Root of primary data and blocking measurable ROI.
- Hochland, Bel, and Zott create concentration risk; one stalled renewal damages revenue fast.
- SAP, IBM, and specialist carbon-accounting vendors can bundle similar workflows, crushing pricing power.
What makes Root Global unique
- Root Global builds farm-level emissions infrastructure for food manufacturers, not generic carbon accounting.
- Its 2026 customer list includes Hochland, Bel, Zott, BayWa, and Petri Feinkost.
- The platform covers verified primary data, reduction plans, and category-by-category supply-chain emissions modeling.
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Root, a startup helping food and beverage companies get to net zero, announced they have raised an €8 million seed round, led by Christoph Janz at Point
German startup Root raises €8M to build the climate OS of the food industry.
31% of human-caused global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions originate from the world’s agri-food systems. Today, carbon increasingly has a price tag attached to it - be it in the form of carbon tax, carbon allowances, voluntary carbon offsets or even just company-internal fees. Consumer-facing food brands struggle to see beyond their four walls and understand where and how their products’ emissions come to be. This is an issue for companies that want to lower their environmental footprint
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About Root Global
Industries
Food & Agriculture
Data & Analytics
Consulting
Enterprise Software
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$11.6M
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2022
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