Cravd raises $750K pre-seed

🚨🚨 BIG NEWS! Cravd has raised $750K pre-seed to bring healthy and affordable home cooked meals to more families. Since launching in May, we've grown 40% month-over-month through referrals, hitting $20K+ in monthly subscriptions with 90% renewals 🚀

Every day, thousands of busy families struggle to put healthy meals on the table. Our solution at Cravd is to build an AI-powered marketplace connecting families with home chefs who cook in your kitchen.

Avinash and I are thrilled to be working on our second company together. As first-time dads building our previous startup, we couldn't find time for healthy meals. It turns out 90% of North Americans spend $4,000+ dining out yearly because they don't have time to cook either.

With Cravd, we’re creating the new default to unhealthy and expensive restaurants, delivery, and meal kits. Here’s how two recent Cravd subscribers describe the experience,

- "Thanks to Cravd, we've transformed our health and lifestyle. My husband lost 6 kgs, and we both feel more energized and healthier than ever."

- "I've been using Cravd for 4 months, and it's great having a personal chef come to our home and prepare meals tailored to our specific diet and macros."

We couldn’t have achieved this without our incredible investors and advisors who supported us from the beginning, including Marketplace Capital (Mike Williams & Andrew Blachman), ODF (Julian Weisser), DLH Investments (Doug Hickey), Neel Murthy, Manju Rajashekhar, Nicolas Dardenne, Brian Cramer, Keith Schacht, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Thejas Menon, Anish Srinivas, Arun Agarwal, Liam Bolling, Abhinav Singh, Prince De, Naveen Pitchandi and other highly-valued angels. A huge shoutout to our incredible team as well!!

Next month we’re launching in SF/Bay Area. We're on track to become default alive in 6 months and profitable later next year.

We’re going to make families happier and healthier on 5 continents in the next 5 years. We'll accomplish it by bringing great food to every dinner table. Visit cravd.com for more and if you’re in SF do join the waitlist!

P.S. Cravd was part of ODF22, which was transformative for us. If you’re in the early days of starting a company and looking for a supportive community apply for their next cohort at joinodf.com! A special shoutout to Julian, Noémie, and Ari!!

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