Kitchit

Kitchit was a San Francisco-based on-demand marketplace founded in 2010 by Brendan Marshall, George Tang, and Ian Ferguson. The platform let users browse and book private chefs who would come to their home, cook a custom multi-course meal, and clean up — delivering a restaurant-quality dining experience in a private setting. Kitchit expanded from San Francisco to Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. In late 2015 it pivoted to 'Kitchit Tonight,' a same-day standardized-menu service starting at $39/head where ingredients were pre-prepped at a central kitchen. The company raised $7.5M in a Series A led by Javelin Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Crosslink Capital, and Otter Rock Capital, but shut down in April 2016 as food-tech market dynamics shifted.