The Crisp Blog

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2020 has been a chaotic and turbulent year for the food industry in particular. The COVID-19 pandemic was a shock to the food supply chain, forcing companies within it to move from gradual evolution to overnight transformation amidst rapid changes to product availability and consumer behavior. While businesses scrambled to achieve 10 years’ worth of...

As supply chains struggle through the pandemic to produce, ship and stock critical food products, companies are racing to deploy technology that can leverage big data, create visibility across partners, and better match supply with demand. To maximize on the market opportunity, Crisp announced today, as reported in TechCrunch, the close of our $12M Series A round of...

The corona virus is raging among the world’s economies. ‘Flattening the curve’ is saving our health, but nearly everyone’s life has suddenly been cast up into the cloud. On Wednesday this week we had dinner with a couple of friends in New York. We were in Miami. Yesterday, my 10-year old son had karate training...

We have all received countless emails describing how various corporations are responding to Coronavirus, ranging from closings to additional PTO. I tasked our leadership team to formulate our own internal response in line with our core values:

Initial results from more than 30 beta customers give us reason to be optimistic. These customers include food brands such as Gilbert’s Craft Sausages, SunFed Perfect Produce, and Nounós Creamery. Results include an 80% reduction in scrapped inventory, a decrease in time spent forecasting, and a 10% reduction in shorting orders after using the newly...

I was raised in a small village of less than 10,000 people in Norway. My family was filled with idealists and activists for both human and environmental causes. I vividly remember my dad in his office writing thousands of letters on behalf of Amnesty International on his typewriter to impact injustice in the World. The path...

When my co-founder Dag Liodden and I started Crisp, the first thing we did was write down everything that didn’t work in our last company together. Our biggest frustration was the mountain of emails we received every day. I had 200 incoming emails per day, and they took up over 50% of my time. Compare...

Crisp is a decentralized company. We are excited about the opportunities that this way of working brings, and we want to make sure we get a set of tools and processes that make  collaboration effective, enjoyable and scalable as we grow. These are some of the things we strive for: No unnecessary interruptions. Synchronous communication...

When Dag and I started Crisp, our first step was to make a list of everything that did NOT work in our last company, Tapad. Tapad grew into a successful company with a great exit, but there are many things we, in hindsight, wish we had done differently. This blog post is about time. Whether...