
A fourth-generation entrepreneur who spent years working in a shrimp factory just convinced Penny Jar Capital, where NBA star Stephen Curry serves as special advisor, to bet on his vision to fix the $9 trillion food industry’s biggest problem: mountains of wasted time.
Burnt announced Sept. 25 that it raised $3.8 million in seed funding led by Penny Jar Capital. The San Francisco-based startup plans to use the capital to build AI-powered automation tools for food supply chain operations currently stuck in legacy systems requiring manual data entry.