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Chefd

http://www.chefd.com/
Last activity: 11.11.2017
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Categories: FoodTechTools
Now more than ever we want to focus on healthy, simple, and delicious recipes. Find the best ingredi
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Overview

Location
United States, California, El Segundo
Employees
51-200
Founded date
2014

Mentions in press and media 15

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Aug 15, 2017Chef’d Raises $35.2M in Strategic FundingChef’d, a NY and El Segundo, CA-based meal kit delivery service, raised $35.2m in strategic funding. The round was reportedly led by Smithfield Foods ($25m) with participation from Campbell Soup ($10 m) and Fresh Direct ($200k). The company...
Aug 10, 2017Term Sheet — Thursday, Aug. 10ET CETERA Good morning! No column today, but have these links: Paid Content How can you protect what you can't see? From ExtraHop • Intel’s self-driving car plans. • Apple’s antitrust concerns. • Microsoft antitrust concerns. • An interview...
Aug 10, 2017 Chef'd Finds $35M For Meal Kits Los Angeles-based Chef'd, a service which provides personalized "meal kits" to shortcut the process of making meals for cooks, has raised $35.2M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the company this week. The funding ...
May 30, 2017Chef’d CEO: ‘Our customer acquisition costs are about a tenth of what the competitive set is paying’“We have significant gross margin in our sales, but the other thing is that we don’t have the marketing expenses of competitors. We’re not giving it away.​ It’s all about customer acquisition costs versus lifetime value,”​ said Ransford. “W...
May 25, 2017 Chef'D Gets $10M From Campbell's Soup For Meal Kits El Segundo-based Chef'D, which provides over 500 different meal kits for delivery to consumers, without a subscription, has raised $10M in a Series B funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding came from m Campbell's Soup Co. and ...
May 24, 2017Term Sheet — Wednesday, May 24ET CETERA Purse purgatory: We’ve written about Coach’s increasing interest in M&A before. Today Fortune’s Phil Wahba published a feature on the company’s turnaround. The relevant part for Term Sheet readers: Paid Content You can't secur...
May 24, 2017Chef’d Receives $10M Investment from Campbell Soup CompanyChef’d, an El Segundo, Calif.-based e-commerce meal marketplace, received a $10m strategic investment from Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB). The investment, part of a Series B round which also included follow-on investor Fresh Direct, will ...
Apr 16, 2017The winner of the meal kit market won’t be a meal kit company at allWhen they started operating in the U.S. about five years ago, meal kit companies looked big, disruptor-sized, poised to transform the way people eat entirely. They were even seen as a potential thorn in the side of the massive U.S. grocery ...
Dec 15, 2016We Tried Meal Kits That Are Supposedly Healthier Than Blue Apron—Here’s How They Rank Green Chef Sun Basket Chef’d And the winner is…Sun Basket serves only organic meals less than 800 calories. Sun Basket. I have reviewed 10 subscription meal services. Go here to check out the Observer’s full guide to these companies, which includes an infographic that will help you deci...
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FAQ about Chefd

When was Chefd founded?

Chefd was founded in 2014.

What has the press written about Chefd?

Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning Chefd, among them “Chef’d Raises $35.2M in Strategic Funding” (Aug 15, 2017) and “Term Sheet — Thursday, Aug. 10” (Aug 10, 2017).

Is Chefd still active?

Yes, Chefd is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 11, 2017.