NEW YORK, April 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Glimpact, a pioneer in environmental influence measurement and developer of the primary know-how implementing the methodological framework adopted by the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Merchandise Regulation (ESPR), introduced a €2.6 million fundraising spherical with Sparkalis, Puratos Group’s funding arm, a worldwide chief in bakery, candy items, and chocolate substances.
This partnership is much more structured as Puratos has already built-in Glimpact’s know-how on the core of its influence discount technique.
This fundraising opens a strategic chapter for Glimpact, enabling the startup to strengthen its distinctive positioning, speed up its technological answer deployment, and help its purchasers throughout Europe and the US, in a sector the place funding for the ecological transition stays extremely selective.
The agri-food business represents each a serious alternative and problem for the ecological transition, given its complicated worth chains and direct influence on pure sources. This partnership brings distinctive industrial experience and understanding of ongoing meals worth chain transformations.
This announcement comes at a pivotal second with the entry into drive of the ESPR; the EU is establishing an bold framework to evaluate merchandise’ environmental influence and drive producers to undertake eco-design practices.
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“At Sparkalis, we invest in technologies capable of deeply transforming the food industry to make it more sustainable. Glimpact’s ability to integrate rigorous, science-based environmental measurement into decision-making is a true breakthrough. It enables companies not only to understand their footprint across complex ingredient supply chains, but also to take concrete action – from sourcing to production – to reduce it at scale. This is exactly the kind of impactful innovation we aim to support.” Jean-Philippe Michaux, Managing Associate at Sparkalis
“Welcoming Sparkalis on board is a tremendous source of pride and a strong signal to all industries: we are ready to write a new chapter in the ecological transition. Together, we are not just supporting business transformation, we are creating the conditions for a truly sustainable industrial revolution.” – Christophe Girardier, President of Glimpact
About GLIMPACT
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Glimpact is the primary digital platform enabling the environmental influence evaluation of merchandise and organizations primarily based on the EU’s new scientific framework. It makes the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology accessible to all stakeholders to measure their environmental footprint and, extra importantly, to establish the simplest discount levers.
Glimpact boasts sturdy experience and expertise with main gamers together with Lacoste, Decathlon, Mars, Gant, Carrefour, Puratos, Manutan, Spadel, and Chantelle.
About Sparkalis
Sparkalis is a dynamic and forward-thinking FoodTech enterprise fund devoted to fostering innovation and driving optimistic change within the world meals business. Dedicated to supporting visionary startup founders and entrepreneurs, Sparkalis invests in cutting-edge options which have the potential to reshape the panorama of the meals business. With a give attention to transformative applied sciences and strategic partnerships, Sparkalis strives to be a catalyst for progress in making a more healthy, extra sustainable, and progressive future for the complete meals ecosystem.
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