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Food DeliveryIndiaClosed 2016

Total Raised

$4.5M

Peak Valuation

Undisclosed

Employees

Year Collapsed

2016

Business model

Daily home-style meal delivery via a centralized kitchen model, adapted for India.

In brief

Delivered affordable, home-style daily meals from a centralized kitchen, aiming at office workers who wanted a healthier alternative to typical delivery food. The vertically integrated kitchen model faced the same difficult unit economics that challenged similar companies globall…

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Key facts

Founded
2014
Closed
2016
Headquarters
Gurugram, India
Industry
Food Delivery
Employees
Revenue
Undisclosed

Related failures

Often compared with: Swiggy, Zomato.