Splendid Spoon Snags $12 Million in Series B
Summary
NEW YORK, NY, Splendid Spoon, a national meal delivery service, announces the close of a $12 million funding round led by Nicoya. NEW YORK, NY, Splendid Spoon, a women-owned and -operated national meal delivery service specializing in ready-made plant-based soups, bowls and smoothies, announces the close of a $12 million funding round led by Nicoya (N!cks, El Taco Truck, Foodiq, Inika Superfoods etc.). Additional investors who contributed include Danone Manifesto Ventures (Forager Project, Harmless Harvest, Farmers Fridge), Torch Capital (Compass, Sweetgreen), Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Rent the Runway co-founder Jennifer Fleiss and Ashok and Meera Vasudevan, founders of Tasty Bite, which was recently acquired by Mars. Both Torch and Ohanian contributed to previous Splendid Spoon rounds. The new round of funding will be used to scale Splendid Spoons core product line, launch new products, categories and meal programs and to continue growing the Splendid Spoon team with a priority on hiring and amplifying diverse voices in the food industry.