How food waste startup Karma resurrected itself with AI – its clones now hold meetings on their own

Hjalmar Ståhlberg Nordegren, CEO and co-founder, Åsa Liljequist Vasiljevic, Jiyan Duran and Fredrik Stutterheim. Photo: press..
13 Apr 2026
23:42
The Swedish restaurant and food waste app Karma was brutally hit by the COVID pandemic – and went from 100 employees to 18.

Today, it has rebuilt its entire platform with AI – with AI clones that hold their own meetings.

"It sounds insane but it has led to an incredible amount of great insights," founder Hjalmar Ståhlberg Nordegren tells Impact Loop, including:

→ The CEO's own AI clone
→ The nightly AI fact-checks
→ The food waste app's comeback

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