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Sealing the Gap

“...will allow it to [provide] for more people across most of the United States.”

“...will allow it to [provide] for more people across most of the United States.”

Patrick Mateer ’15 actively works to fill the gap between local farmers and communities that don’t have adequate access to affordable, healthy food.  

Seal the Seasons, a startup Mateer co-founded at Carolina that uses flash-freeze technology to bring peak-of-freshness produce to all, has raised $1.8 million in a private equity that will help to provide small-to-midsize local farmers with new markets to sell their produce.

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