Sealing the Gap

Published on July 26, 2018

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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Mateer is also a CUBE alum who started at the Campus Y working as a Bonner Scholar, where he served with Farmer Foodshare. He has been named a Forbes 30 Under 30 for social entrepreneurship. 

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