Mill
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2020
- HeadquartersSan Bruno, United States
- Headcount101–250
- GTM typeB2B and B2C
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
Mill firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Mill
- Legal name
- Mill Industries Inc.
- Website
- https://mill.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2020
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 101–250 employees
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Mill industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Food waste recycling appliances
- NAICS
- Food Product Machinery Manufacturing (333241), Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing (311423)
- SIC
- Food And Kindred Products (2000), Grain Mill Products (2040)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Food Inventory Management & Expiration Rotation Systems (HSAFACAF)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Drying & Dehydration Equipment (Grain Dryers, Fruit/Vegetable Dryers) (AFAAAJAB)
Keywords
Where Mill is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- San Bruno
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
Mill business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B and B2C
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Hardware sales (Mill Food Recycler): One-time hardware sales of the Mill Plus (from $999) and Mill Essential ($799) food recyclers via mill.com direct-to-consumer storefront.
- Financing / installment plans (0% APR): Mill offers monthly installment pricing at 0% APR (e.g., $66–$84/month) on hardware purchases, functioning as a deferred-payment or Bnpl option on the device.
- Food Grounds pickup subscription: Subscription service for collection of food grounds ("Mill Pickups") to deliver user output to small farms, with a per-month fee referenced in product literature.
- Extended warranty (Extend): 2-year warranty included with purchase; optional 4-year extended warranty powered by Extend available for $199.
- Mill Commercial enterprise sales: Sale and deployment of Mill Commercial systems to large food service and grocery operators (Whole Foods Market, Compass Group) and facilities management partners (ABM), including AI-enabled waste characterization hardware.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| One time/ perpetual license | Monthly | Mill Plus — premium food recycler with foot-pedal lid, child/pet lock, and integrated weight sensor |
| One time/ perpetual license | Monthly | Mill Essential — streamlined design, same 6.5L capacity and power as Plus |
| One time/ perpetual license | Pay-as-you-go | Valentine's Day sale — Mill food recycler under $850 |
Go-to-market motion5 records
Distribution channels7 records
Marketing channels8 records
Mill product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Mill designs, manufactures, and sells an automated kitchen appliance (the Mill Food Recycler) that dehydrates, grinds, and de-stinks food scraps — including meat, bones, dairy, and pits — overnight into dry, shelf-stable, nutrient-rich "Food Grounds" that reduce food waste volume by 80% and can be used as garden soil amendment, chicken feed, or compost feedstock. The company sells consumer models (Mill Plus, Mill Essential), a companion mobile app, an optional pickup subscription, and extends the same core technology into Mill for Workplace offices and Mill Commercial kitchens, where Gemini-powered AI characterizes waste and provides procurement intelligence to large grocery and foodservice operators.
Product overview
Mill Industries Inc. operates a single product family — the Mill Food Recycler — deployed across residential, workplace, and commercial settings, all centered on dehydrating and grinding food scraps into shelf-stable "Food Grounds." The consumer portfolio has two tiers: the premium Mill Plus and the streamlined Mill Essential (both 6.5L, $999 and $799 respectively), which sit alongside the Mill Mobile App for impact tracking and an opt-in Mill Pickups service that routes Food Grounds to small farms. The company then extended the same core technology into Mill for Workplace (office deployment) and Mill Commercial, a larger modular commercial system with Gemini-enabled AI waste characterization and custom AI agents for procurement intelligence. Mill Commercial is Mill's flagship enterprise offering, launched first with Whole Foods Market (Amazon) and Compass Group North America to deliver grocery- and foodservice-grade on-site food waste conversion at scale.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Mill for Workplace: Workplace-focused product line of Mill's food-recycling service.
Products and services
- Mill Food Recycler (Mill Plus) Premium residential food recycler that dehydrates and grinds nearly any food scraps (including meat, bones, dairy, and pits) into nutrient-rich, shelf-stable Food Grounds overnight, reducing volume by 80% in a 6.5L bucket. Features hands-free foot pedal lid, child/pet-safe auto-lock, three premium finishes (white, matte black, stainless steel), integrated weight sensor, smart automation, 90-day trial, and 2-year warranty. From $999.
- Mill Food Recycler (Mill Essential) Streamlined residential food recycler in the Mill family, with the same 6.5L capacity and 288 lbs of stainless steel auger force as Mill Plus but a lower 23-inch height and a lid that stays up when lifted. Blocks 99.9% of odors via a 6-month carbon filter. Priced at $799.
- Mill Commercial Commercial-scale automated food recycler for grocery, restaurant, and foodservice operators. Modular design adapts to commercial kitchens; drying and grinding reduce waste volume by up to 80% on-site into dry, shelf-stable Food Grounds usable as animal feed, compost feedstock, or soil amendment. Every unit ships with Gemini-enabled AI waste characterization and custom AI agents for procurement and operational intelligence. Launched first with Whole Foods Market (Amazon) and Compass Group North America.
- Mill for Workplace Office deployment of Mill's smart food recycling system, extending the consumer recycler into workplaces as the US food waste crisis deepens. Leverages the same automated dehydration and grinding technology as the residential Mill Food Recycler, scaled for shared office use.
- Mill Pickups (Food Grounds pickup service) Optional on-demand pickup subscription that collects nutrient-rich Food Grounds from subscribers' homes and delivers them to small farms or community composting partners, layered on top of Mill hardware sales.
- Mill Mobile App (iOS / Android) Companion mobile app for the Mill Food Recycler that lets users track household food waste diversion and greenhouse-gas impact over time. Supports iOS 14 or later and Android 10 or later; the average family using Mill diverts over 300 lbs of food per year, avoiding a net half-ton of greenhouse emissions.
Quantifiable outcome
- Reduces food waste volume by 80% (Mill and Mill Commercial)
- +7 more outcomes
Companies that use Mill
Customer profileNamed customers6 records
Segments6 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
Mill technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration1 record
AI capability10 records
Feature7 records
Mill partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Eight partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.
- Compass Group North AmericaflagshipFirst-of-its-kind strategic partnership and Mill's first channel partner. Compass Group will deploy Mill Commercial across corporate campus, hospital, university, and stadium dining facilities in North America starting 2027, with an AI-enabled waste characterization system in every device. The partnership supports Compass Group's commitment to cut food waste by 50% by 2030.
- Google (AI Futures Fund / Gemini)coreMill joined Google's AI Futures Fund to embed Gemini-enabled visual waste characterization into Mill Commercial. Google provides next-generation Gemini model access and engineering resources; Mill provides a high-volume, real-world food waste dataset (rooted in Google's own Project Delta 2017 work) for model training and feedback.
- Amazon (Whole Foods Market, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund)flagshipAmazon and Mill announced an industry-first commercial food waste deployment at Whole Foods Market stores starting 2027, with Whole Foods as the first grocer to use Mill Commercial. Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund also invested in Mill to support the rollout. The system converts produce scraps into chicken feed for Whole Foods' private-label egg suppliers, supports Whole Foods' 50% food waste reduction goal by 2030, and delivers up to 80% volume reduction on-site.
- Compost CrewminorRegional service partnership expanding food scrap recycling across Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Washington, D.C., combining Mill's food recycler with Compost Crew's collection and composting infrastructure for households.
- City of Phoenix (with R.City)minorCity of Phoenix teams up with Mill and R.City to tackle food waste, channeling Mill household grounds to local farms and supporting a broader methane-emission reduction effort.
- ABM Industry Groups, LLCcoreABM bundles Mill's automated food recycling into its ABM Connect-driven integrated facility management offering, deployed across 6,000+ client facilities and combined with Recycle Track Systems for AI-powered waste management.
- City of TacomaminorYear-long food-recycling pilot with the City of Tacoma; Mill published results in July 2024 showing the impact of household Mill deployment on municipal waste streams.
- LA CompostminorMill is partnering with LA Compost to nourish soil and communities across Los Angeles County using Mill household grounds.
Scale indicators7 records
Recent moves11 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Mill competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- FoodCycler: FoodCycler manufactures a household food waste dehydrator/Recycler that similarly grinds and dries scraps into a dry by-product, targeting the same eco-conscious residential buyer as Mill.
- Winnow Solutions: Winnow provides AI-powered food waste tracking and analytics for commercial kitchens (hotels, contract caterers, hospitals), directly competing with Mill Commercial's Gemini-enabled waste characterization layer in the enterprise food-service segment.
- Leanpath: Leanpath offers automated food waste tracking and prevention technology for foodservice operators, overlapping directly with Mill Commercial's enterprise pitch on procurement intelligence and waste reduction.
- Lomi (by Pela): Pela's Lomi is a countertop electric composter/food recycler that dehydrates and grinds household food scraps, directly competing with Mill Plus and Mill Essential in the at-home food recycler category.
Broad incumbents
- Power Knot: Power Knot builds commercial biodigesters and food waste processing equipment for restaurants and institutions, offering an alternative on-site conversion solution to Mill Commercial at grocery and foodservice scale.
- Vitamix: Vitamix is an established premium kitchen appliance brand with strong consumer retail relationships and brand recognition; it represents the broader premium small-appliance incumbent against which Mill is competing for kitchen counter real estate.
Others
- Too Good To Go: Too Good To Go operates a surplus-meal marketplace that addresses upstream food waste from restaurants and retailers; it is thematically adjacent to Mill as an ecosystem player tackling the broader food waste value chain.
- Phenix: Phenix (France-based) operates food waste collection and redistribution services in Europe, representing an adjacent service-model approach to food waste that complements (rather than directly competes with) Mill's hardware platform.
Emerging players
- Impact Bioenergy: Impact Bioenergy manufactures modular anaerobic biodigesters that turn commercial food waste into greywater and energy, representing an emerging technology pathway competing with Mill Commercial's dehydration approach.
- Big Hanna: Big Hanna produces large-scale in-vessel composting systems for commercial and institutional food waste, an alternative on-site conversion approach targeting schools, municipalities, and food-service operators similar to Mill Commercial.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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Valuation estimate
Mill leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles6 records
Mill funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds5 records
Investors14 records
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Mill M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Mill
What does Mill do?
Mill designs, manufactures, and sells an automated kitchen appliance (the Mill Food Recycler) that dehydrates, grinds, and de-stinks food scraps — including meat, bones, dairy, and pits — overnight into dry, shelf-stable, nutrient-rich "Food Grounds" that reduce food waste volume by 80% and can be used as garden soil amendment, chicken feed, or compost feedstock. The company sells consumer models (Mill Plus, Mill Essential), a companion mobile app, an optional pickup subscription, and extends the same core technology into Mill for Workplace offices and Mill Commercial kitchens, where Gemini-powered AI characterizes waste and provides procurement intelligence to large grocery and foodservice operators.
Is Mill a public or private company?
Mill is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Mill founded?
Mill was founded in 2020. It employs 101 to 250 people.
Where is Mill based?
Mill is headquartered in San Bruno, United States, in the North America region.
How does Mill make money?
Five revenue lines are on record. Hardware sales (Mill Food Recycler) is the primary driver. The others are financing / installment plans (0% APR), food Grounds pickup subscription, extended warranty (Extend) and mill Commercial enterprise sales.
Who are Mill's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are FoodCycler, Winnow Solutions, Leanpath and Lomi (by Pela). Broad incumbents are Power Knot and Vitamix. Others are Too Good To Go and Phenix. Emerging players are Impact Bioenergy and Big Hanna.
Does Mill have an API?
No public API is recorded for Mill.
What industry is Mill in?
Mill's product category is Food waste recycling appliances. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HSAFACAF, Food Inventory Management & Expiration Rotation Systems, with a secondary code of AFAAAJAB, Drying & Dehydration Equipment (Grain Dryers, Fruit/Vegetable Dryers). Its NAICS code is 333241 and its SIC code is 2000.