Home Chef offers a flexible meal‑kit service with a weekly menu of 10 dinner choices that emphasizes home‑cooking staples rather than exotic dishes. The company delivers nationwide and charges a standard price of $9.95 per serving. Home Chef reports it is delivering 1.5 million meals each month and employs more than 600 people. To support scale, it opened a new distribution facility in Atlanta to complement existing facilities in Los Angeles and Chicago. Founder and CEO Pat Vihtelic highlights flexibility and choice as the company’s differentiators. Home Chef is a subscription meal-kit service that delivers recipes and ingredients and uses a "taste algorithm" to recommend meals to customers. It offers flexibility by letting customers choose from roughly 10-13 menu options each week and emphasizes customer-driven menus. Since launching in 2013, the Chicago-headquartered company has grown to more than 400 employees and delivers over 540,000 meals per month. Leadership, including founder and CEO Pat Vihtelic, stresses capital efficiency as the business scales. The company plans to use the new funding to open a West Coast distribution center. Home Chef has raised $12 million in total funding to date. Home Chef provides a subscription service delivering personalized recipes with pre-portioned, fresh ingredients, and cooking instructions and tips. The company offers free delivery of those curated meal kits. Recipes are developed by experts and menus are tailored to customers' dietary restrictions and preferences. The business is led by Bryon Finke, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer. The company raised a new seed funding round with an investment from Guild Capital (amount undisclosed). The raise was reported by FinSMEs on 25/07/2014.

Total raised

$50M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2016