SideChef offers a cooking, shopping and meal-planning app with more than 20,000 “smart recipes” and over 12,000 shoppable recipes that can be added to a cart for delivery or in-store pickup. The app is free to download and offers a $4.99 monthly premium tier with recipes from SideChef culinary experts; users can also upload and share their own recipes. SideChef has partnered with retailers and delivery services (Walmart, Instacart) and appliance makers including Sharp, GE and LG to embed step-by-step cooking and smart-kitchen features. The company says it doubled its revenue growth three years in a row, growth that was boosted by increased home cooking during the pandemic. New funding is intended to expand an end-to-end cooking platform and smart-kitchen technologies, including image-recognition devices for automated cooking and additional monetization via online grocery purchasing, contextual marketing and data insights. SideChef is a mobile cooking app that displays detailed photography and written instructions to guide users through recipes. The app offers more than 1,000 recipes sourced from over 100 food bloggers worldwide. Its recipe library covers diverse cuisines and accommodates special diets including gluten-free, vegan and low-fat options. Launched in March 2014 by CEO Kevin Yu, SideChef focuses on expanding its content and user reach. The company plans to use newly raised funds to create partnerships with various U.S. companies and to grow its network and content offerings, including cooking techniques.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Mar 2023