Design My Meals
We aim to enable people to eat at home, as a family and to prepare meals made with local/seasonal and on-hand ingredients.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Food and Beverage
- Location Milpitas, CA, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded February 2010
- Employees 10
- Website designmymeals.com
Company Summary
Design My Meals is a web-based, personalized recipe index and meal planning tool, which automatically generates grocery list and manages at-home pantries. It connects small, local food providers and users. Its an intelligent engine that matches specialized diets to a user’s recipe preferences and the existing ingredients in a user’s pantry. Our Mission at Design My Meals is to help educate and assist the public in eating well.
Team
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Carla M BayotFounder and CEO
Hardware and Software architect with 17 years experience. Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics. Previously, has worked at Apple, Cisco and on Microsoftʼs Xbox. Architects design process to combine data management and collaboration features to enable product data to be controlled and shared across entire product life cycle.
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Cara MorettiCo-Founder and CMO
Cara Moretti is a dermatologist with interests in nutrition and epidemiology. She holds a Master's degree in Public Health from Harvard University and an MD from the University of Chicago. Recognizing that this has social, environmental and health benefits, her aim is to help curb the obesity epidemic and improve the overall health and wellbeing of Americans.
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Sara FrankelCo-Founder and COO
Sara has two decades of experience in consumer media and Internet. Has worked in multiple start-ups as CEO and has held senior positions at Barnes & Noble, Third Age Media, and PC World Online. Sara earned a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Cambridge, and an M.B.A. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She is currently board secretary of the nationally acclaimed magazine, Mother Jones.
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Heather LoweVP Partnerships and Product Development
She brings more than 18 years of executive-level experience in graphic design, UI design, information architecture and e-commerce design. She held senior design positions at Organic, Sony, and several Silicon Valley e-commerce, gaming and lifestyle start-ups and has particular expertise in UI design and front-end programming. She has a Master’s degree in social psychology and earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business at Berkley.
Advisors
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Philip MilestoneLawyerUnconfirmedMark Strosberg, CPAAccountantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Rich John LeeUnconfirmedWilliam CallahanUnconfirmedStephanie JohnsonUnconfirmed
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