Josephine operates a platform that facilitates home-cooked meal sharing by connecting cooks with customers. The company emphasizes ethical platform practices and aims to give cooks ownership, agency and transparency. Starting January 2017 Josephine plans to allocate 20% of the company to cooks via stock options, distributed based on tenure and number of meals served. It is launching a Cook Council—a rotating group of cooks that will meet with leadership—and will reserve at least one seat on the company’s board beginning in 2017. Josephine has faced regulatory challenges: it paused operations in Oakland after cooks received cease-and-desist letters over California cottage food laws. The company is focusing market efforts on Seattle, Denver and Portland and is proactively engaging local regulators while drafting related legislation with the California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Aug 2016