ZeroCater is a foodservice company headquartered in San Francisco, CA, specializing in providing companies with catered meals from local restaurants, caterers, and food trucks. The company expanded their offerings in 2017 to include a fully customizable snacks program called ZeroCater Snacks and Kitchens. ZeroCater currently feeds thousands of companies including, BuzzFeed, IDEO, Bleacher Report, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, ClassPass, and Blue Apron. As of November 2017, ZeroCater operates in San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Austin, Washington D.C. and Chicago.
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History
ZeroCater was founded in 2009 by Arram Sabeti. As an early employee at Justin.tv (now Twitch.tv) Sabeti was responsible for ordering lunch for their office. He created a process to make it easy to order from a variety of local restaurants. Soon other companies began asking for his list of restaurants. Sensing this might be a new business opportunity, Sabeti left Justin.tv to work full-time on what would become ZeroCater. After running the business on a spreadsheet and bootstrapping for 18 months ZeroCater was accepted into the Winter 2011 class of Y Combinator and placed first on Demo Day.
In 2011, ZeroCater raised a $1.5m seed round from investors including Paul Buchheit (the creator of Gmail and Google's unofficial 'Don't be evil' motto), SV Angel, and Vaizra. In 2016, ZeroCater raised a $4.1m Series A.
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Media coverage
ZeroCater has been covered in Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, CNNMoney, and other mainstream and technology publications.
See also
- online food ordering
- Waiter.com
References
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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