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HomeCooks

Chef to Customer Marketplace

HomeCooks logo
1-20 employees
  • B2C
  • Marketplace
  • Food
  • Delivery
Camden Town, London, UK

Company mission

To keep human connection at the heart of ordering food.

50% female employees

Our take

With the rise of takeaway deliveries, online groceries, and meal boxes, the food delivery service industry has witnessed significant disruption over the past few years. With the ready meal market the fastest-growing segment within the food industry, it's no surprise then that the demand for prepared food deliveries is rapidly on the rise.

HomeCooks is a meal delivery service connecting people around the UK to independent chefs that make authentic, home-cooked meals. Setting itself apart from competitors, HomeCooks is focused on supporting small independent chefs, giving them the ability to compete with bigger brands that typically have more accessibility to the resources for distribution.

Aiming of bringing back quality and creativity within the food industry, HomeCooks plans on further growing its name around the UK while continuing to discover and connect independent chefs with their local communities.

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Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • 🍓 Free HomeCooks subscription
  • 🥗 24 meals per month
  • 🏝️ 25 days paid holiday
  • 🎂 Your birthday as an extra holiday day
  • 🤝 Up to 3 days flexible (or office - up to you)
  • ✍️ Online courses and mentorship
  • 🎉 A high achieving, small and fun team
  • 📚 Options packages for senior hires

Company values

  • Have fun - We want to change the world, but we want to enjoy our time doing it.
  • Enable opportunity - The whole point of HomeCooks is to help people achieve better lives and better career. We prefer to promote from within.
  • Make mistakes - We like to make mistakes quickly and often, to learn and grow.
  • Move fast. Every week we like to feel like we have moved to a different level.

Funding (1 round)

Dec 2023

$3.1m

SEED

Total funding: $3.1m

Leadership

Joshua M.

(Co-Founder)

Previously Co-Founded eatstudent.co.uk (acquired by Just Eat) and founded Zing Zing.

George Streatfield

(Co-Founder)

Founder of Gym Food. Previously worked as a Fixed Income Broker for Amstel Securities.

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