ZeroCater
ZeroCater is a food catering company headquartered in San Francisco, California that helps companies offer in-office meals to their employees from a diverse range of local food sources.[1][2] ZeroCater currently feeds about 500 companies a month, including Buzzfeed, Squarespace, Tumblr, Venmo, ClassPass and Foursquare.[2][3] ZeroCater founder Arram Sabeti described the company as a "Pandora for food."[4] As of January 2015, it is operational in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and Chicago.[2]
History
ZeroCater was founded by Arram Sabeti. Sabeti moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with the goal of working on startups. He initially worked at Ben & Jerry's, then at the startup Justin.tv. While at Justin.tv, he managed ordering lunch for the office, and some other companies asked him to help with managing their lunch as well. Sensing that this might be a new business opportunity, Sabeti left Justin.tv to work full-time on the company, which became known as ZeroCater. He convinced a developer to join him at the startup and successfully applied to and was accepted at the startup accelerator Y Combinator in 2011.[3][5]
Although initially operational only in the San Francisco Bay Area, ZeroCater started operations in New York City in April 2013, and Chicago in January 2015.[6]
In August 2015, it was reported that ZeroCater had facilitated $100 million in food purchases despite raising only $1.5 million.[7][8]
Media coverage
ZeroCater has been covered in TechCrunch,[5] Fast Company,[4] the Wall Street Journal,[9] Bloomberg BusinessWeek,[10] Business Insider,[11] Forbes,[12] CNNMoney,[13] and many other mainstream and technology publications.[14]
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