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CookUnity

Ready-meal delivery marketplace

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201-500 employees
  • B2C
  • Marketplace
  • Sustainability
  • Food
  • Consumer Goods
  • Delivery
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY

Company mission

CookUnity is on a mission to unlock the world’s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses.

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Few candidates hear
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30% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

CookUnity is a meal subscription service which connects consumers with some of the country's best known chefs, including Esther Choi, Chris Ratel and Andy Mendez. Consumers can select from a menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City.

The New York founded business hit the headlines for its upward trajectory in 2020, where it secured 15.5 million in funding and saw an expected boost not just in demand, but in the supply of top culinary talent at a time when restaurants were struggling.

While there’s a wide world of meal plan delivery services, CookUnity has a jump on much of the competition as it’s the first service that connects such eminent chefs directly with the customer. This has allowed it to expand across much of the US, and it now prepares over 10 million meals annually for its 50,000 subscribers.

With most of the urban US now covered by its service, CookUnity is moving into the next phase of its growth, expanding the range of sellers and food products on the platform, and has plans to offer family-sized portions, brekfast options and cooking classes using its existing physical and digital infrastructure. This will enable it to grow into an all-in-one meal subscription service over the coming years.

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Benefits

  • 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
  • 🏖 Unlimited PTO policy and paid holidays off
  • 🐣 Family leave: 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
  • 🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
  • 🥙 A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly
  • 🧘🏽‍♀️ Wellness perks: access to a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
  • 👩🏾‍🏫 Personalized Spanish coach

Company values

  • Pursue Excellence: We’re fuelled by a relentless pursuit of excellence
  • Make it Simple: We always strive to do more with less
  • Harmony: We believe that greatness comes from goodness
  • Encourage Growth: We embrace a growth mindset and focus on making ourselves better each day
  • Celebrate Diversity and Creativity: We honor the individuality of associates, chefs and the people we serve
  • Make an Impact: We want to design experiences that make people happy, healthy and well
  • Build Unity: Because we're all connected and we’re strongest when united

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Apr 2023

$47m

LATE VC

Sep 2021

$47m

SERIES B

Total funding: $119.3m

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Leadership

Born on a farm in Argentina, Mateo is on a mission to make great real food available for all and a more fair and sustainable food system. He has built 10+ food brands that delivered more than 25M meals combined in the last 13 years, including SUSHIPOP and La Causa.

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