At Shef, we're bringing the sharing economy to the table. We believe in providing our Shefs (refugees, immigrants, stay-at-home parents) the opportunity to make a meaningful income from their very own kitchens. We also believe that every person should have access to a healthy, homemade meal at an affordable price. Building a safe and happy community devoted to economic empowerment and cultural inclusivity -- that's why we started Shef.
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $48.8M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| - | Enjoy The ... | enjoythewo... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 02.08.2021 | Series A | $20M | a16z |
| 02.06.2021 | Series A | $20M | - |
| 21.08.2020 | - | $8.8M | - |
Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.12.2023 | What were the top 15 foodtech deals of 2023? | [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—th... |
| 17.03.2023 | Tweekly. Выпуск 161. Обувь на 3D-принтере | Что сейчас растёт и как это применить: 1. Обувь на 3D-принтере. Износил, переработал, напечатал новую пару. 2. Чем прозрачнее вознаграждение, тем больше выручка. Продвижение компании через вознаграждение сотрудников. 3. Домашняя еда на дост... |
| 02.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | 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. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
| 01.03.2023 | Culinary marketplace Shef whips up nationwide expansion with new funding, growth ingredients | In its quest to turn the culinary talents of passionate home cooks into small businesses, Shef, a chef-to-consumer marketplace, is now taking those efforts nationwide. Shef works with local cooks making authentic, homemade dishes and provid... |
| 08.07.2022 | Meet Danny Wen, co-founder and Managing Director of Quarry Ventures | Quarry Ventures invests primarily in B2B SaaS, with a focus on repeat founders Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more star... |
| 17.11.2021 | Data Snapshot: Online Restaurant & Mealkit investment was a $326m variety pack in H1 2021 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Companies in the Online Restaurant & Mealkit category raised $326 million in H1 2021, according to ... |
| 05.06.2021 | Shef Raises $20M in Series A Funding | Shef founders Alvin & Joey cooking with shefs at a commercial kitchen. Shef, a San Francisco CA-based platform that enables cooks to sell homemade meals to their local communities, raised $20M in Series A funding. The round was led by A... |
| 03.06.2021 | Salesforce wants to battle Microsoft. But will it get Slack right? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Late last year, Salesforce threw down a weighty gauntlet to Microsoft’s work-from-home Teams soft... |
| 02.06.2021 | Shef raises $20M to expand its homemade meal delivery marketplace | It’s still a bit of a legal maze, but more cities are coming around to the idea of letting local home chefs bring in more income by selling homecooked meals to those nearby. Shef is a marketplace meant to help these home chefs connect with ... |
| 17.09.2020 | Meet Karl Alomar, Managing Partner at M13 | M13 invests in consumer technology companies out of a $190 million fund Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more startups th... |
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