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

  • Founder and CEO

    Ruby on Rails Programmer, William Blair Technology Investment Banking, Indiana University

  • CMO

    Bain & Company, Harvard University

  • Operations Director

    McKinsey & Company, Indiana University

  • Lead Developer

    CTO, Meal Sharing; Software Engineer, RECSOLU; UIC

  • Culinary Director

    Executive Chef, Birchwood Kitchen; Ball State University

  • Creative Director

    Founder, The Little Foxes; Bronner; Brown University; Oxford University

Advisors

  • Craig Ulliott
    Co-founder and CTO, Belly
    Unconfirmed
    Rich Mott
    Owner, North Pond Restaurant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Iain Shovlin
    Managing Partner, Guild Capital
    Unconfirmed
    Craig Ulliott
    Co-founder and CTO, Belly
    Unconfirmed
    Owner, North Pond Restaurant
  • Partner and Head of Technology Investment Banking, William Blair

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