A 100% independent project
Our core value is independence. Grape's mission is to help consumers make better every-day purchase decisions for the planet. Our aim is to help you eliminate wasteful purchases, easily.
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No ads: Grape is completely ad-free. Brands can not pay Grape to advertise their products.
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No influence: shopping list suggestions are based solely on your prefferences and shopping list history, with absolutely no influence from outside brands or manufacturers.
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Data protection: Grape does not sell user data. All user data remains strictly confridential.
Meet the team
Grape is being built by 4 enthusiastic individuals, who want to help others make a difference. Grape is our passion project, which we work because we choose to do so on the weekends, outside of our day jobs.
History
2020
April
We spent 72 hours participating in a weekend-long hackathon, aimed at developing solutions which are applicable in the fight against the effects of COVID-19 and Grape is born.
2020
May
We get selected from a pool of c. 300 applications from 20 countries to participate in the EIT Digital Venture Programme. We spent an intensive 4 months on designing Grape and building our minimum viable product ("MVP").
2020
August
We register our company and start alfa and beta testing of our MVP.
2021 - 2022
We constantly collaborate with our users on best ways to create a seamless user experience, pivot and iterate the app multiple times.
2022
November
Our Team Member Waliyah, wins second place in the CHANGE category for the EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology Awards 2022, with a new iteration of the project.
2023
We work on implementing the latest logic of the app and can't wait to test it with users in Q2 2023.