• mom.life

  Led · Seed · Nov 2016

  Mom.life provides a social app for moms featuring a news feed, messaging, dedicated interest groups and parenting content. The company was founded in 2014 in Europe by the team behind the Babyblog site and began as the Preggie pregnancy tracker app. The app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play and has more than 700,000 downloads. Mom.life has offices in San Francisco, Moscow and Prague and reports a revenue run rate of more than $1m. The company recently named Dee Anna McPherson as co-founder, president and CMO, added Nicole Hempeck as head of content and social media, and appointed Ulli Appelbaum as a strategic adviser. It plans to use the new funding for product innovation and to expand in the U.S. market.

• Marley Spoon

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2016

  Marley Spoon is a global direct-to-consumer company that provides subscription-based meal kits under two brands: Marley Spoon (branded "Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon" in the U.S.) and Dinnerly, a low-cost meal kit. The company emphasizes quality, sustainability, and a subscription delivery model across multiple markets. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Marley Spoon operates in the U.S., Australia, and Europe. Marley Spoon went public on the Australian Stock Exchange in July 2018. In August 2021 the company sought external capital to help fund its growth initiative investments. Runway Growth Capital provided a $65 million senior secured term loan commitment to support those plans. Marley Spoon delivers pre-portioned fresh ingredients and recipes to enable cooking at home. The company is re-launching in the U.S. as 'Martha & Marley Spoon' through a partnership with Martha Stewart and Nasdaq-listed Sequential Brands Group. The offering pairs Stewart’s recipes and techniques with Marley Spoon’s meal-kit logistics and competes with the likes of Blue Apron, Plated, and HelloFresh. Marley Spoon positions itself as an alternative to weekly grocery shopping by converting buying habits rather than changing who cooks at home. CEO Fabian Siegel says Stewart is deeply involved beyond a simple endorsement, and the company leans on traditional media, including TV advertising, to raise awareness. TechCrunch reports Marley Spoon recently raised €6.5m in a Series B2 and a source cited a €95m pre-money valuation. Marley Spoon provides cook-at-home recipe kits and competes with companies like Gousto, Blue Apron, Plated, and HelloFresh. The company is Berlin-headquartered and operates across North America, the U.K., the Netherlands, Austria, and Australia. Marley Spoon says its biggest marketing challenge is creating awareness that recipe-kit services exist, so it leans on traditional media as well as online channels. It has secured up to $44 million in media volume from GMPVC, a media-for-equity fund, to raise brand profile in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The company will use new funding to expand further in the U.S., including opening a San Francisco fulfillment facility and expanding onto the East Coast and the South. Total funding raised now stands at $32 million following the latest round. Marley Spoon offers a cook-at-home meal kit subscription that delivers perfectly portioned fresh ingredients alongside recipes and instructions. The service launched in Germany, then expanded to the Netherlands and the U.K., and has begun U.S. operations targeting the East Coast corridor. Leadership of the U.S. operation includes Jennifer Aaronson, Jasper Heyden, and Monica Noh. The company emphasizes weekly choice—offering seven recipes each week—and has shifted pricing to reduce cost per meal based on the number of meals subscribed to, while allowing customers to pause subscriptions. Marley Spoon competes with recipe-kit companies such as Blue Apron, Plated, and HelloFresh, but its founders view traditional supermarkets as the primary competitor. To drive awareness it is investing in offline marketing channels like television and piggybacking on other delivery services (including placing offers in Amazon packages). Marley Spoon operates an on-demand recipe-kit service offering a rotating menu of seven dishes, with orders accepted up to 48 hours in advance and deliveries dispatched twice weekly. The company emphasizes the cooking experience, supplying exact amounts of fresh ingredients without requiring a warehouse, which helps limit waste and enables country-wide delivery. Marley Spoon has expanded beyond Germany into the U.K. and the Netherlands and reports particular popularity in smaller cities and rural areas. The startup positions itself against subscription-based rivals by targeting families who cannot plan far ahead rather than customers seeking a weekly supermarket replacement. Co-founder Fabian Siegel stresses that execution, operational excellence and outside capital are necessary to scale the business. The company is funding growth to build awareness and scale logistics rather than relying on bootstrapping.

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