Kitchit

http://kitchit.com/

Last activity: 02.05.2016

Probably Closed

Categories: FoodTechHomePersonal

Order a personal chef to prepare delicious 3 course dinners for only $39 a person. We'll cook and clean so you can enjoy effortless entertaining at home! Bring the restaurant home with Kitchit!

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Overview

Location

United States, California, San Francisco

Employees

11-50

Phone

+1 415-689-1704

Total raised

$7.5M

Founded date

2011

Investors 1

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Funding Rounds 1

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Mentions in press and media 17

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Apr 29, 2016	Industry-in-Brief: Indonesia Partners with Fish Traceability Tech, Costco to Open, Chicken Processor, Investment Firms Merge, more	Indonesian Government Meets Scottish Fisheries Traceability Business The Indonesian Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Susi Pudjiastuti, met with traceability technology company Traceall Global this week. The meeting was part of a vi...
Apr 28, 2016	On-demand private chef startup Kitchit shuts down	Kitchit, the startup that brought chefs into your home to cook for you, is shutting down because “investment runways are finite, and unfortunately ours reached its end at a moment of substantial upheaval in the food-tech world,” Kitchit fou...
Feb 24, 2016	Get ready for Startup Backstage with Alex Gurevich	Estimote’s main investor, Alex Gurevich will be the main guest of the upcoming Startup Backstage in Krakow On February 26, 2016 at Metaforma Cafe in Krakow, will be held Startup Backstage with Alex Gurevich, an event co-organized by Innova...
Feb 18, 2015	50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley	“One of the things that I really strongly believe in is that we need to have more girls interested in math, science, and engineering. We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that we’ve got a...
Dec 9, 2014	Kitchit Closes $7.5M Series A Funding	Kitchit, a San Francisco-based on-demand in-home restaurant experience platform, closed a $7.5M Series A funding round. The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners. In conjunction with the funding, Alex Gurevich and Noah Doyle of Javelin ...
Dec 9, 2014	Kitchit Announces $7.5M in Series A	SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Company that brings the dining experience of a restaurant into the home, announced today that it has closed a $7.5M Series A funding round. >> Click here for more funding data on Kitchit >> To export Kitch...
Dec 9, 2014	Javelin leads $7.5M Series A round into Kitchit	Kitchit hopes to bring the restaurant experience (no cooking, no serving, no cleaning) to every home Recently, I had a dinner party and hired Habanas, a Cuban restaurant in Alameda. It's an amazing deal. A server comes to your home, sets up...
Dec 9, 2014	Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up...
Dec 9, 2014	Kitchit Gets $7.5 Million To Bring The Restaurant Experience To Your Home	San Francisco-based Kitchit wants to enable anyone to have restaurant-quality food without going out, by creating a marketplace of chefs who cook in customers’ homes. The company has just raised $7.5 million in funding led by Javelin Ventur...
Oct 20, 2014	La Belle Assiette Gets $1.7 Million To Scale Up Its On-Demand Chef Service	French startup La Belle Assiette just raised $1.7 million (€1.3 million) from angel investors, such as BlaBlaCar’s Nicolas Brusson, eFounders’ Thibaud Elzière, Nicolas Bourdin, the three founders of l’Atelier des Chefs and Kima Ventures. A...
Apr 18, 2014	La Belle Assiette Launches Its On-Demand Chef Service In Belgium And The U.K.	French startup La Belle Assiette just opened shop in Belgium. La Belle Assiette is a sort of on-demand chef service. You can browse the site, find your chef and book a meal directly from the service — a chef will then come to your home or o...
Nov 16, 2012	Y Combinator-Backed Balanced Raises $1.4M To Provide A Payment Platform For Peer-To-Peer Marketplaces	There are a growing number of peer-to-peer marketplaces out there, helping to match up workers and sellers with products or skills, with buyers who wish to take advantage of them. But for those marketplaces to work, they don’t just need pay...
Aug 23, 2012	Stanford’s nonprofit accelerator StartX nabs $800K funding grant	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! StartX functions a little bit differently than ot...
Aug 23, 2012	Stanford’s nonprofit accelerator StartX nabs $800K funding grant	StartX functions a little bit differently than other accelerator programs in Silicon Valley. A Stanford affiliated nonprofit, the accelerator provides student entrepreneurs with housing, office space, cash stipends, advice, and mentorship —...
Nov 15, 2011	Get a gourmet holiday dinner this year with Kitchit	Kitchit's top chefs whip up your ideal holiday feast so you can finally out-do your sister-in-law Few things are quite as stressful as hosting the holidays at your place—maybe delivering a speech right after four cups of coffee and a bran m...
Jul 4, 2011	The Way We Eat	Editors Note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on Twitter @semilshah. “Where should we grab some food?” Perh...

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FAQ about Kitchit

When was Kitchit founded?

Kitchit was founded in 2011.

How much funding has Kitchit raised?

Kitchit has raised $7.5M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Kitchit?

Parsers VC has collected 17 articles mentioning Kitchit, among them “Industry-in-Brief: Indonesia Partners with Fish Traceability Tech, Costco to Open, Chicken Processor, Investment Firms Merge, more” (Apr 29, 2016) and “On-demand private chef startup Kitchit shuts down” (Apr 28, 2016).

Is Kitchit still active?

Kitchit is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 2, 2016.