Yumist
Food DeliveryIndiaClosed 2016
Total Raised
$4.5M
Peak Valuation
Undisclosed
Employees
—
Year Collapsed
2016
Business model
Daily home-style meal delivery via a centralized kitchen model, adapted for India.
In brief
Delivered affordable, home-style daily meals from a centralized kitchen, aiming at office workers who wanted a healthier alternative to typical delivery food. The vertically integrated kitchen model faced the same difficult unit economics that challenged similar companies globall…
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Key facts
- Founded
- 2014
- Closed
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Gurugram, India
- Industry
- Food Delivery
- Employees
- —
- Revenue
- Undisclosed
- Founders
- Alok Jain, Anil Gelra
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Often compared with: Swiggy, Zomato.