Shef connects local, food safety certified cooks with customers in their communities through an online marketplace. This platform allows cooks to sell homemade dishes, helping them earn a meaningful income while providing customers with access to diverse, home-cooked meals. Shef operates in 10 states and has delivered over 1.6 million meals to more than 60 million people. Unlike traditional food delivery services, Shef focuses on empowering local cooks to monetize their culinary skills and build personal connections through food. The company's goal is to transform the food system by redefining how people participate in the food economy and encouraging the sharing of homemade meals.

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[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder.]. Foodtech investment followed a similar trajectory to other tech sectors in 2023, with a dramatic drop off in funding from the heady days of 2021 and early 2022. Funding for eGrocery—the biggest category in foodtech*—continued its precipitous decline, dropping from $4.8bn in 2022 to $1.3bn in 2023 as investors frustrated by the sector’s high cash burn, “growth-at-all-costs” mentality and poor supply chain management shifted their focus to upstream categories closer to the farm

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Tiyya has also partnered with the online platform Shef to support those who’d like to provide delivered meals from their own home, ideal for mothers with young children to care for.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Shef is expanding its chef-to-consumer marketplace across the United States. Cooks from anywhere in the country can now apply to sell their homemade food on the platform, Shef said in a Wednesday (March 1) press release. Launched in 2019 in the Bay Area, Shef now operates in 11 states and the District of Columbia, the release said

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Chef-to-Consumer Marketplace Shef Announces Plans to Expand Nationwide After $73.5 Million Series B.     New funding will enable Shef to help thousands more local cooks turn their culinary talents into a small business.     SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 2023-- Shef, the nation's leading chef-to-consumer marketplace, today announced plans to expand nationwide after closing a $73.5 million Series B funding round last year, bringing the company's total funding to date to more than $100 million. The largest investment ever in a chef-to-consumer marketplace, the funding will help Shef connect talented local cooks anywhere in the United States with customers looking for healthy, high-quality food options prepared by members of their community.Shef's previously closed Series B round was led by CRV, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and Amex Ventures. The round included $7M in venture debt. Other investors include celebrity chefs Andrew Zimmern (Bizarre Foods), Carla Hall (The Chew, Top Chef), Kristen Kish (Top Chef, Iron Chef) and Nyesha Arrington (Next Level Chef); athletes Russell Westbrook, Odell Beckham Jr

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Shef’s expansion is driven by recent laws passed nationwide that enable the sale of certain types of homemade food.

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Shef, the nation's leading chef-to-consumer marketplace, today announced plans to expand nationwide after closing a $73.5 million Series B funding round last year, bringing the company's total funding to date to more than $100 million.

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PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imagine dishes from the most iconic restaurants and chefs from around the world delivered to your doorstep. No passport required. Just order and enjoy! Food technology startup CloudChef has made this a reality with the debut of its proprietary ‘recipe record and playback technology’ which impeccably recreates dishes from any chefs allowing consumers to enjoy their favorite dishes and recipes from anywhere in the world, home-delivered. A video demonstration captured how CloudChef accomplishes this. In blind taste tests, Michelin-starred chefs could not detect the difference between their dishes and those created by CloudChef.CloudChef was founded by Nikhil Abraham, Atish Aloor, and Mohit Shah, graduates from the highly-reputed engineering school, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay whose mission is to build the ‘Spotify for food’. This new wave of food innovation envisions chefs as creators and allows them to monetize their creations just like musicians do today without the constraints of brick and mortar.“ We are very passionate about giving consumers access to their favorite foods from anywhere in the world,” says CloudChef CEO Nikhil Abraham

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