Copia

Copia created a Food Safety Council to track current food safety guidelines and provide food safety resources to food donors and nonprofit partners.

Feeding People, Not Landfills with Food Donation Technology

Every business plans for inventory it can restock, resell, liquidate, recycle, or discard. But usable surplus that could support communities has too often lacked a disposition channel built for real-world operations.

Copia helps businesses turn surplus redistribution into a scalable disposition channel through real-time matching, flexible logistics, audit-ready records, and enterprise reporting.

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Copia CEO Kimberly Smith describes how the company uses a matching algorithm to route surplus food to nonprofits. The article highlights double tax deductions and clients including The Cheesecake Factory.

Oct 2025 · Cali BBQ MediaNews article

Copia’s surplus-redistribution partnership has donated more than 5,200 pounds of food and served more than 4,400 meals through local nonprofits. 1 Hotels interviews Copia VP of Customer Success Paige Sullivan about the partnership and the company’s efforts to develop solutions to hunger.

Nov 2023 · 1 HotelsNews article

Copia, a food-waste startup founded in 2016, is named to Built In SF’s San Francisco Future 5 for Q2 2022. The company had raised $4.7 million to route surplus food from businesses to nonprofits, redirecting commercial food surplus to nonprofit recipients.

May 2022 · Built In SFNews article

Copia founder Komal Ahmad leads a logistics platform that matches restaurant surplus food with nonprofits, helping restaurants waste less and people in need find food. NationSwell reports that the platform has recovered 3.4 million pounds of food and delivered 3.2 million meals.

May 2021 · NationSwellNews article