Pre-Launch · Seed Stage · Global

The Food on Your Plate
Has Secrets.
We Reveal Them.

FoodScanLab is building the world's first $49 handheld food safety scanner. Detect pesticides and chemicals in any food — in 5 seconds, anywhere, by anyone.

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$49
Consumer price
5s
Scan time
100+
Chemicals detected
7B
People this serves
🍎
$49
SAFE to eat
The Problem

You Can't See
What You're Eating.

Every day, billions of people make food choices without any knowledge of the pesticides and chemicals on their produce. The information exists — in laboratories costing $200+ per test, with 3–14 day wait times. Accessible to almost no one.

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70%
of supermarket produce contains pesticide residues
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3B+
people have zero access to food safety testing
⏱
0
consumer devices under $100 that test for pesticides

Current Reality vs. What We Need

Lab test cost$200+
Wait time for results3–14 days
Expertise requiredHigh
Available at point of purchaseNever
FoodScanLab changes this
FoodScanLab cost$49
FoodScanLab result time5 seconds
Expertise requiredNone
Works at any marketAlways
How It Works

Point. Press. Know.

Four simple steps to safer food choices — no lab, no expertise, no waiting.

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Point

Hold the FoodScanLab device 2–5cm from any fruit, vegetable, meat or grain.

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Press

Press the single scan button. NIR light penetrates the surface to analyse chemical composition.

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Read

LED result in 5 seconds. 🟢 Green = Safe · 🟡 Amber = Caution · 🔴 Red = Avoid.

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Dive Deeper

Open the free app for exact chemicals detected, health impacts, and washing tips.

Features

Designed for Everyone.

From concerned parents to professional chefs — FoodScanLab works for anyone, anywhere.

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5-Second Results

Instant visual LED response. No waiting. No uncertainty. Know before you buy.

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Lab-Grade Accuracy

NIR spectroscopy detects 100+ pesticides and chemicals with 80%+ validated accuracy.

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Works Standalone

No phone required. No app needed. Just the device — simple enough for age 8 to 80.

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Free App Companion

Detailed chemical breakdowns, health impact data, washing guidance, and scan history.

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Global Impact Data

Opt-in scans build the world's first real-time food safety map — your scan helps everyone.

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All-Day Battery

200+ scans per charge, USB-C rechargeable. Pocket-sized at 120mm × 50mm × 25mm.

Technology

The Science Behind It.

Same technology used in $50,000 industrial food testing equipment — miniaturised into a $49 pocket device.

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NIR Spectroscopy (900–2500nm)

Near-Infrared light identifies the unique molecular fingerprint of pesticide residues invisible to the naked eye. Each chemical absorbs a distinct wavelength pattern.

Si-Ware Systems · Spectral Engines
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On-Device Machine Learning

ARM Cortex-M4 processor runs our custom ML model locally — no internet required. Trained on thousands of validated samples against laboratory standards.

80%+ detection accuracy
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Bluetooth 5.0 + Cloud Sync

Optional pairing with iOS/Android app. Anonymised, opt-in scan data syncs to our global food safety intelligence network.

Nordic Semiconductor · AWS
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MEMS Chip-Scale Sensor

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems technology brings industrial sensor capability to consumer price points. Validated through ITRI Taiwan partnerships.

ITRI Taiwan · MiTAC Holdings
The Model

More Than a Device.
A Global Data Network.

Every opt-in scan builds the world's first real-time food safety map. We sell that intelligence to governments — which funds the $49 device.

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The Flywheel That Changes Everything

More users → More data → Better intelligence → More B2G revenue → Lower device cost → More users. A self-reinforcing cycle that aligns our financial success with global public health outcomes.

$25K–50K
Regional reports / year
$100K–250K
National dashboards / year
$500K+
WHO / FAO / EU contracts
B2G
Data
Revenue
👥
More
Users
📊
Better
Data
💰
More
Revenue
📉
Lower
Costs
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Consumer Device — $49

Subsidised by B2G data revenue. Designed for maximum global adoption, not maximum margin.

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Government Intelligence

Anonymised, aggregated contamination data sold to food safety agencies, ministries of health, WHO, FAO, and the EU.

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Privacy First

All user data is opt-in only, fully anonymised, and never sold at individual level. You own your data.

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Network Effects

Value compounds with scale. Every new user makes the dataset more valuable — creating a defensible, compounding moat.

Ambarish Verma
Ambarish Kumar Verma
Founder & CEO

Serial entrepreneur with 17+ years building market intelligence businesses globally. MBA (Marketing & IT), ICFAI Business School Bangalore.

MarketResearchReports.com — World's largest provider of syndicated and custom market research reports · Since 2012
NOVONOUS — Business intelligence consulting · Since 2009
NAVADHI — Market research & growth · Since 2017
The Founder

Why I Built
FoodScanLab.

2009
–
Now

17+ Years in Market Intelligence

Built three companies around one core belief: the right information, delivered at the right moment, changes everything. NOVONOUS, MarketResearchReports.com, and NAVADHI all serve this mission.

The
Gap

The Dataset That Didn't Exist

While researching the food safety testing market, I searched for real-time consumer-level food contamination data. It didn't exist — anywhere. Not in government databases. Not as a commercial product. The world's most valuable food safety dataset was uncollectable because the right device didn't exist at the right price.

2026

Building the Solution

FoodScanLab is the natural evolution of my 17+ years building intelligence businesses — except this time, instead of distributing others' data, we're generating the most important proprietary dataset nobody has built: real-time, point-of-purchase food safety intelligence from every market on earth.

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Global from Day One

Food safety is a universal problem. We're not an India startup with global ambitions. We're a global company built from India — with simultaneous presence across markets from launch day.

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