Cantaloupe Systems is the pioneer and market leader in Cloud-based technologies for the $55 billion global vending industry. Cantaloupe Systems’ Seed Platform enables vending operators to deliver better customer service, reduce costs and generate larger margins. This solution provides an automated retail platform for scheduling, pre-kitting, merchandising, and cashless using hosted systems and wireless technologies.

Cantaloupe Systems’ goal is to continuously challenge the vending industry status quo and make vending operators more efficient and profitable. The result: vending operators know how to generate the greatest revenue and margin from each machine with optimized service efficiencies and the least operational cost.

Operators using the Seed Platform™ average $35,000 in annual savings per route, can replenish 80 percent more machines per week and can reduce their carbon footprint by 40 percent through the elimination of unnecessary truck travel and smaller loads per truck. Named three years running to Inc. Magazine’s list of the fastest-growing U.S. private companies,

San Francisco-based Cantaloupe Systems, Inc., was founded in 2002 by engineers Mandeep Arora, a second-generation vending professional, and Anant Agrawal. The founders’ vision is to enable the evolution of vending from an intuition-based business to a science-based business. The company has more than 200 customers with over 70,000 machines online. Installed in individual vending machines, Seed Platform applies state of the art business intelligence to remotely-monitored real-time vending sales data to suggest optimized next-best-step business decisions.

Cantaloupe Systems is backed by Global Environment Fund of Chevy Chase, MD., and Foundation Capital of Menlo Park, CA.