Industry Catering , Foodservice Website ZeroCater.com Founded 2009 Key person Arram Sabeti | Key people Arram Sabeti (CEO) Type of business Private Area served United States of America | |
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Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States Profiles | ||
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ZeroCater makes planning and ordering food simple for companies. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, ZeroCater specializes in providing companies catered meals for any occasion from a diverse range of local restaurants, caterers, and food trucks. ZeroCater currently feeds thousands of companies including, BuzzFeed, IDEO, Bleacher Report, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, ClassPass, and Blue Apron. As of March 2017, it is operational in the 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 for him 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.
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.
Media coverage
ZeroCater has been covered in Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, CNNMoney, and other mainstream and technology publications.