Home Chef
We disrupt the status quo, a $1.2 T restaurant/grocery market, with a fundamentally better solution - our meal kits save time, limit waste and make cooking fun.
- Stage $1M in TTM Revenue
- Industry Food and Beverage
- Location Chicago, IL, US
- Currency USD
- Founded July 2013
- Employees 15
- Website homechef.com
Company Summary
Home Chef is an online grocery service that sends consumers all of the fresh, portioned ingredients and step-by-step instructions needed to cook restaurant quality meals at home. As a flexible subscription, our customers choose from a new menu of nine meals every week for $9.95 per serving. Launched in fall 2013, we ship to 60% of the US from our facility in Chicago and have been growing rapidly, recently reaching a $1 mm annual revenue run rate.
Team
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Founder and CEO
Ruby on Rails Programmer, William Blair Technology Investment Banking, Indiana University
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CMO
Bain & Company, Harvard University
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Operations Director
McKinsey & Company, Indiana University
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Lead Developer
CTO, Meal Sharing; Software Engineer, RECSOLU; UIC
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Culinary Director
Executive Chef, Birchwood Kitchen; Ball State University
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Creative Director
Founder, The Little Foxes; Bronner; Brown University; Oxford University
Advisors
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Craig UlliottCo-founder and CTO, BellyUnconfirmedRich MottOwner, North Pond RestaurantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Iain ShovlinManaging Partner, Guild CapitalUnconfirmedCraig UlliottCo-founder and CTO, BellyUnconfirmedOwner, North Pond Restaurant
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Partner and Head of Technology Investment Banking, William Blair
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