HungerBox
Siri Shambhavi, #2346, 4th floor, 17th Cross Road, HSR Layout, 1st Sector, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560102, India
Overview
HungerBox provides management services to companies and institutions to run and improve in‑house cafeterias and canteens, including an app to connect clients with food partners and real‑time order updates. The company supplies point‑of‑sale machines, offers insights into catering quality, and enables scheduled delivery and order tracking to reduce queues. Its solutions are deployed in over 535 cafeterias across sectors including IT, retail, healthcare, aviation, education, financial services and manufacturing. HungerBox says it has amassed more than 126 large businesses and institutions across 18 Indian cities, processes 560,000 orders per day (growing ~10% monthly), and reports annual food sales exceeding $100 million. The startup employs about 1,500 people. It plans to use new capital to expand into 10 additional Indian cities and enter markets in Southeast Asia. HungerBox offers an end-to-end platform for corporate food and F&B needs with four products: online cafeteria, catering, food court and e‑services. The company operates an asset‑light model with over 160 digital cafeterias and more than 75 corporate clients, including Qualcomm, Microsoft and FirstSource. It processes over six million orders a month, employs about 400 staff across India, and uses IoT to connect vendor hardware and employees. HungerBox generates revenue via commissions, charging roughly 10% of overall food sales from vendors, and the company says it is operationally profitable. The firm is promoted by Growth Story and was founded by Sandipan Mitra and Uttam Kumar. Management plans to use fresh capital to expand further across India and into Southeast Asian markets. HungerBox operates an end-to-end platform servicing corporate F&B needs with four product lines: online cafeteria, catering, food court and e-services. The company runs over 100 digital cafeterias and serves more than 75 corporate clients, including Qualcomm, Microsoft and FirstSource. It reports processing 200 orders a minute and claims more than 120,000 daily orders, with a target to scale to 500,000 daily orders by the end of 2018. Employees access services through employer reimbursement benefits. HungerBox has expanded into multiple Indian cities including Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi NCR and Hyderabad. The company was incorporated in early 2016. HungerBox operates an end-to-end, full‑stack digital cafeteria management platform that lets employees order from enlisted food vendors via mobile and gives corporate admin teams real‑time tracking of F&B operations. The service bundles four solution categories into a single offering and is operated by Eat Good Technologies Pvt Ltd and promoted by GrowthStory. The company runs operations across Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Chennai and Jaipur, operating more than 100 digital cafeterias for over 75 corporate clients including Qualcomm, Microsoft, Accenture, Capgemini, Genpact, ABB, Amazon and McKinsey. HungerBox has a ~200‑member team and reports nearly seven million orders to date and about 120,000 daily orders, with a stated target of scaling to 500,000 daily orders by end‑2018. The platform’s funds will be used to extend its full‑stack offerings to all eight cities and to deepen operations in existing markets.
- Total raised
- $20M
- Funding rounds
- 4
- Latest round
- Series C
- Latest activity
- Dec 2019
Industries
- B2B
- Food and Beverage
- Food Delivery
Recent funding
Series C
Dec 2019
$12M
Series A
Jul 2018
$5M
Equity
Mar 2018
$1M
Series A
Jan 2018
$3M