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Hungryroot is an online grocery service that delivers modern, healthy food with recipe and meal planning support.

History
Hungryroot was founded in 2015 by Benjamin McKean and Franklin Becker. The service initially offered six '7 minute' vegetable noodle meals, sold at retailers including Whole Foods Market and FreshDirect. It then expanded to include healthy desserts, sauces, and other vegetables available direct-to-consumer.

Their Series A funding with investment from Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and KarpReilly garnered $2 million. The company paused operations briefly in 2017 in order to expand its supply chain and offer more foods as a direct-to-consumer food subscription service.

After raising a Series B round of $22 million in March 2018, including lead investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Hungryroot repositioned again. More than 50 products from third-party health food brands including Beyond Meat and Banza were added in late 2019 to expand product variety further with a new focus on being an online healthy grocery service.