Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory. Working exclusively at the manufacturing plant or distribution center level, Spoiler Alert offers a best-in-class B2B sales platform that enables food & beverage brands to manage their closeouts, discounted sales, and/or liquidation processes to a private network of discount retailers and nonprofit channels - with a heavy focus on maximizing value recovery, strengthening customer relationships, and increasing the effectiveness of supply chain managers tasked with handling these typically manual sales processes. Founded by alumni of MIT, Spoiler Alert works with some of the world's largest brands, including Campbell's, HelloFresh, and KeHE Distributors, along with a growing network of discount channels committed to increasing affordable food access.
Location: United States
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +1 617-917-4123
Total raised: $2.5M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Right Side... | rightsidec... |
| - | Techstars | techstars.... |
| - | LaunchCapi... | launchcapi... |
| - | FTW Ventur... | ftw.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 16.11.2016 | Seed | $2.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 24
| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.12.2025 | The discount market year-in-review: Shifts creating opportunity for CPGs | The dynamics of discount, off-price and secondary markets are shifting — they’re growing, evolving and fueled by consumer behavior. And for CPG teams managing excess inventory, these shifts matter. In 2025, these channels are no longer the ... |
| 29.09.2025 | 6 tips for navigating excess inventory | Everyone loves a deal. But especially for the 60% of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck–they need creative ways to put nutritious foods on their family’s tables. To meet this demand, discount retailers like Dollar General, Lidl, ... |
| 28.02.2025 | ReFED’s Sara Burnett: ‘GLP-1 Drugs & AI Will Have Profound Impacts on US Food Waste’ | 8 Mins Read Sara Burnett, executive director of non-profit ReFED, talks food waste in the US, state bans, and the “profound impact” of AI and Ozempic. Food waste in the US has reached a four-year high, reaching 73.9 million tonnes – or 31% ... |
| 24.05.2023 | Tech can fight food waste, but it’s ‘just one part of the solution’ | In some ideal utopia, average consumers could solve the planet’s food waste problem simply by throwing less food out. Realistically, that will never happen. As the oft-cited stat goes, around one-third of the world’s food goes to waste each... |
| 23.05.2022 | Women Leaders in Tech Make Big Strides in Combating Food Waste | As female leaders in a male-dominated tech world, Hotze (CEO of Charlotte-based Grocery Shopii), Crowe (CEO of Atlanta-based Goodr), and Malina (President of Boston-based Spoiler Alert) are working every day to create and refine digital too... |
| 02.12.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Mr Yum, FJDynamics & Back to the Roots bag big fundings | This week, Aussie startup Mr Yum, which makes QR code-based ordering and payments software for hospitality companies, raised one of the Lucky Country’s biggest Series A rounds ever; while farm robotics company FJDynamics scored big money fr... |
| 01.12.2021 | Spoiler Alert raises $11m to help CPGs sell surplus inventory & cut food waste | Boston-based startup Spoiler Alert has raised $11 million in Series A funding to grow its ‘liquidation platform’ that helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies sell surplus and short-dated inventory to discount retailers. The round was ... |
| 01.12.2021 | A rind is a terrible thing to waste: Spoiler Alert leaps to the rescue | We spend such a tremendous amount of our resources growing, processing, transporting and selling food items. In a world where not everyone has enough to eat, it’s a disgrace that in the US, 30%-40% of food that is produced is never consumed... |
| 01.12.2021 | BREAKING: Spoiler Alert raises $11m to help CPGs sell surplus inventory & cut food waste | Boston-based startup Spoiler Alert has raised $11 million in Series A funding to grow its ‘liquidation platform’ that helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies sell surplus and short-dated inventory to discount retailers. The round was ... |
| 28.08.2020 | From Francis Ford Coppola to foodtech: FTW Ventures’ Brian Frank on latest fund | San Francisco-based FTW Ventures describes itself as the “secret force” behind some big changes coming to the food system. This week it announced a new $4 million agrifoodtech fund, which has already made five investments and is targeting 1... |
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