Turnyp

Healthy Food Near You. The Yelp! for Choicely Eaters. Vegan, Raw, Paleo, Gluten-Free, Veggie, High Protein...You name it! We find it!

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Food and Beverage
  • Location Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded October 2012
  • Employees 6
  • Website turnyp.com

Company Summary

Turnyp’s mission is to bring “healthy food near you” to your smartphone. By combining its understanding of the lifestyles followed by vegan, paleo, gluten-free, raw and vegetarian eaters with location based services and complete social integration, the company can deliver experiences that are more specific to the diner’s needs and individual menu items than ever before. It currently allows you to search dishes for over 80K restaurants nationwide.

Team

  • Heden Zheng
    Hacker

    Heden was born to code. He is an expert data-miner and algorithm engineer. He is so attuned to coding that he can master virtually any language in a matter of weeks. He is really, really versatile.
    After emmigrating from China eight years ago, Heden has held the position of Senior Software Developer at Donbest, Alea Software, and Youtility.

    HEDEN EATS NO DAIRY

  • Louis-Victor Jadavji
    Co-Founder

    Nominated to Inc. Magazine's Coolest College Entrepreneurs list. Louis-Victor is passionate about healthy food and nutrition (he's a certified Fitness Nutrition Coach) and is known for his love of superfoods, like spirulina and yeast flakes - he makes some pretty unique potions.
    Louis-Victor is a sophomore at Claremont McKenna, and currently works at the Embassy of Canada in D.C.. He's an able SEO and a veteran cold-caller.

    LOUIS-VICTOR EATS

  • Ryan McMaster
    Lead Designer

    Ryan believes that design + entrepreneurship are quantumly entangled.
    He provides a breath of fresh air to clients by offering fantastical, revolutionary design + business ideas that are grounded in reality and process.
    He founded Vancouver-based Theory Design, and worked as the Creative Director for both Wishpond and Media 32.

    RYAN EATS GLUTEN FREE

  • Ray Ortigas
    Hacker

    Ray is passionate about mobile development. He was a software engineer for Sun Microsystems before spearheading the mobile development for NBA League Pass. He's also worked as the lead programmer for major mobile suite applications carried by Application Frameworks and J2ME Applications.

  • Matthew Gu
    Co-Founder

    Matt wants to build businesses that can help people live smarter. Matthew started experimenting with entrepreneurship at age 16 when he founded his first non-profit, which went on to raise over $45K that same year.
    Matthew is currently a sophomore at USC and is the VP of the Asian Business Association, and Director of CAHSMUN.

    MATTHEW EATS PALEO

Advisors

  • Antone Johnson
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Clinton Suh
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

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