Chennai-based digital home-cooking start up Cookd raises ₹4.4 crore
The Hindu
The start up, founded in 2020, helps users plan recipes and meals
Chennai-based digital home-cooking start up Cookd has raised ₹4.4 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by Konglo Ventures, Kerala Angel Network, and well-known angels from the food industry. Some of the other strategic investors in Cookd include Aju Jacob, director, Synthite Industries, and Geemon Korah, CEO and executive director at Kancor Ingredients Limited. Actors Keerthy Suresh and Kathir have also pumped in money into the firm, along with Vineet Kumar, CEO of Native (acquired by P&G).
The start up, founded in 2020, helps users plan recipes and meals. It now plans to gain a stronger foothold in the D2C segment and launch new-generation food products directly to consumers.
The pandemic and the home-cooking trend accelerated Cookd’s growth in a year. Today, they have an online footprint of over 1.5 million followers across all social media platforms, 31 million views and 15 million minutes of content watched month on month.
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