Blue Apron Raises $135M

What does Blue Apron do?

Blue Apron, is a grocery delivery service company which delivers a recipe and the required ingredients right to the customer’s doorsteps. This start up based in New York is changing the way people cook at home. The startup’s weekly subscriptions service delivers everything a customer needs to make fresh meals. The startup shops for its customers at wholesale, and delivers all the ingredients in exactly the right proportions, along with beautifully printed recipe cards. To have this by your aid it feels like you have your own private chef, and you can discover new recipes, eat fresh food and save time and money.

How much Blue Apron was funded?

Blue Apron raised $135M in Series D on June 9, 2015 from BoxGroup, Stripes Group, Bessemer Venture Partners and Fidelity Investments.

Previous funding

• $3Min Series A funding on February 19, 2013 from Alan Gould, Joseph N. Sanberg, Eric Gould, First Round, Nat Turner,  Bessemer Venture Partners  and other angel investors.
• $5Min Series B funding on August 15, 2013 from Peak Opportunity Partners, First Round, Joseph N. Sanberg, BoxGroup and Bessemer Venture Partners
• $50Min Series C funding on April 25, 2014 from Stripes Group

What is next for Blue Apron?

Blue Apron plans to use the latest investment for scaling its rapidly growing network of farms, suppliers, and fulfilling capabilities throughout the country. Its mission is making incredible home accessible to everybody. The financing will also help it in improving the efficiency of its model, from sourcing to fulfillment, in order to bring customers a quality level which has never been available at scale before.

More about Blue Apron

It was founded in 2012 by Matthew Wadiak, Ilia Papas and Matt Salzberg. It has its headquarters in New York, NY. It is now delivering more than 3M meals a month to homes across USA.