Trustwell did not arrive at this moment by accident. It arrived by accumulation. 40 years of nutrition data. Two decades of traceability scars. Millions of decisions made quietly behind the label, behind the supplier portal, behind the recall drill no one wants to run but everyone eventually does. Food safety is not loud, but it remembers everything.
When TPG’s The Rise Funds stepped in with a majority investment, and The Riverside Company stepped out, this was not a victory lap. It was a handoff. One operator to another. One chapter closing so the next one could move faster, with more gravity, and fewer excuses. Financial terms stayed private. The signal did not.
Trustwell is the 2023 merger of ESHA Research, founded in 1981, and FoodLogiQ, founded in 2006. One built the nutrition language the industry still speaks. The other taught supply chains how to talk when something goes wrong. Together they formed a platform that understands food from formulation to fork, and every uncomfortable conversation in between.
This matters because FSMA 204 is no longer theoretical. Lot-level traceability. 24-hour reporting. Supplier data that actually matches reality. Trustwell already supports more than 2,200 customers, nearly 25,000 supplier companies across 120,000+ locations, and more than 200M Critical Tracking Events. That is not compliance theater. That is operational memory.
CEO Katy Jones understands this terrain because she grew up inside it. From FoodLogiQ marketing to Trustwell leadership, her work sits at the intersection of data discipline and human consequence. Food safety is personal when labeling is wrong, when ingredients hide, when trust breaks. That perspective shows up in the product.
The Trustwell platform connects Genesis and FoodLogiQ into a single system that handles nutrition analysis, regulatory labeling, supplier compliance, traceability, and recall readiness. It is not flashy software. It is software that shows up when the room goes silent and everyone looks at the dashboard.
Akash Pradhan of The Rise Funds framed the investment around visibility. Visibility into ingredients. Visibility into supply chains. Visibility into what people are actually consuming. Impact investing only works when impact survives scale. Food safety is one of the few categories where scale increases responsibility, not optionality.
Loren Schlachet of The Riverside Company called this the right next partner. That reads less like sentiment and more like precision. The platform is built. The data is deep. The market is moving. Trustwell now operates with capital that expects patience, accountability, and outcomes you can measure.
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