Edamam, LLC
Technology to change the way we eat!
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Lifestyle
- Location New York City, NY, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded October 2010
- Employees 12
- Website edamam.com
Company Summary
Edamam aims to re-imagine the way people find, shop for and cook food and thus cut through the noise of the disorganized food knowledge. Our proprietary technology and mobile-first platform, cuts the decision what to cook by 10x for our target demo: the health-conscious consumer (vegan, diabetic, gluten-free, athletes...), by delivering visual, relevant, quality recipes. Edamam is pioneering a unique transaction-based model: "iTunes" for food.
Team
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Victor PenevFounder & CEO
Victor is a successful entrepreneur, who co-founded and sold Bulgaria’s largest Internet company, Netinfo. He has played a key role in establishing the digital efforts of BMG, Playboy and Bookspan. Victor holds a Stanford MBA.
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Ivan DimovCFO
Ivan is a former investment banker and venture capitalist with over 15 years of substantial international experience. Former Chairman of Netinfo.
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Hannah GoldbergSenior Editor/Food Expert
Hannah has worked in the past ten years as a professional chef, restaurant critic, cookbook editor, wine importer and cheese buyer. She is an English major from Columbia with a number of food industry awards.
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Dimitar ManovDevelopment Team Leader
Dimitar is among a select few world semantic technology experts. His background includes 20 years experience in Java/C++ and a specialization in Artificial Intelligence (Planning and Decision Making), text analysis and data extraction.
Advisors
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KAISER WAHAB, Wahab & Medenica, kwahab@wrlawfirm.com, 212-785-0070LawyerUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Friends & Family round completed early in 2012 - $810K raisedUnconfirmed
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