Shef

Shef is a homemade food marketplace that helps cooks make an income by cooking and selling food to their communities.

Commerce and retail Consumer and socialY Combinator

Latest funding

$73.5M Series B+ · March 1, 2023

Led by CRV · Source: fundraisingfox.com

Total raised: $102.3M across 3 sourced rounds

All 4 rounds ↓

Website: shef.com.

X: @ordershef · 1,898 followers.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com.

Categories: Commerce and retail Consumer and social.

Sectors: Consumer, Food and Beverage, Marketplace, Food, Food Tech.

Stage: Series B+.

Based in: San Francisco, United States.

Founded: 2019.

Total raised: $102.3M in 3 sourced rounds.

Last round: Mar 1, 2023 · 1,352 days ago.

Team: 70 people on the team page.

On Recent Funding since: Sep 28, 2026.

Signals

X account@ordershef · created Jan 16, 2019 (7 years old) · 1,898 followers

Website registeredDec 23, 1998 (27 years old)

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Shef | 582 days from X account to first raise on record

@ordershef·Raised $102M in 3 sourced rounds·1 signal before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

March 1, 2023
Series B+ · $73.5M
CCRV (lead), AAmex Ventures, AAndreessen Horowitz, KKarman Ventures
Source: fundraisingfox.com
June 2, 2021
Series A · $20M
AAndreessen Horowitz (lead), AAndre Iguodala, CCraft Ventures, DDuro Ventures, KKaty Perry, MM13, NNate Rosenthal, OOrlando Bloom, PPadma Lakshmi, TTiffany Haddish, YY Combinator
Source: techcrunch.com
August 20, 2020
Seed · $8.8M
BBrandon Leonardo, CCraft Ventures, MM13, MMax Mullen, SStacy Brown-Philpot, VVarsha Rao, YY Combinator
Source: prnewswire.com
January 16, 2019
X account created
Winter 2019
YY Combinator · batch
Source: ycombinator.com
December 23, 1998
Website created

Founders and team

AS
Alvin Salehi Co-founder

@alvinsalehi_ · LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
JG
Joey Grassia Co-founder

@joeygrassia · LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
MS
Matt Scandalis Senior Software Engineer
VM
Victor Mithouard Growth & Ops

Investors

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Sources and API

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