Lin & Daughters in a 500-square foot space in Greenwich Village has a streamlined menu, specializing . [+] in dumplings, soups and salad. Courtesy of Lin & DaughtersWhen she was younger, Becky Lin remembers working at her parent’s two Chinese restaurants in Long Island, N.Y., Lin’s Kitchen in Eastport and Pearl in Speonk, where each eatery had over 100 items on the menu. Those extensive entrees gave its customers an array of options but also led to many items being rarely ordered and led to “food waste and spoilage and required large refrigeration space,” she said.After graduating from Dartmouth College in 2006, she ran Lango Kids, a language immersion school for nine years that included an after-school and summer camp, where students were taught Chinese, Spanish and French. Lin is 38-years-old, a native of China, who immigrated to the U.S. when she was 12.After giving birth to two daughters, she used her two-year respite to hone her recipes and sold food online at Shef.com, which delivers home-cooked meals

Founded by Alvin Salehi and Joey Grassia in 2019, Shef has now raised a total of $95.3M in total equity funding and is backed by American Express Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and CRV.

This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms.