Shef Latest Press
A flavorful mix of Shef press mentions and highlights
People Magazine: The biggest trends and moments that have helped us cook, eat and find inspiration this year
#23 A home-cooked meal doesn't have to be cooked in your home. Using the online platform, diners can order fresh, delicious meals made by members of their local community. The service helps talented cooks—many of them immigrants and women—earn…
We Tested Two Apps That Are Persuading Home Cooks to Get Into Delivery
To eat in New York is to be spoiled with choice. Why settle for mere Chinese food when you can select from restaurants that specialize in Hunan, Henan, or Yunnan dishes? But there are limits: Some cuisines are too niche to sustain a commercial…
Bay Area’s Shef.com Provides Marketplace for Local Cooks & Customers
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Shef, delivering home-cooked meals to your home
The new online marketplace Shef connects customers with food entrepreneurs – many of whom are immigrants or refugees – working out of their homes. Correspondent Lilia Luciano looks at how Shef is offering opportunities to aspiring chefs…
Inc. This Food-Delivery Startup Is Helping Home Cooks Become Entrepreneurs
Thanks to recent local legislative changes, Shef has expanded rapidly--offering a lifeline for immigrants and other frontline workers displaced by the pandemic.
Read more at Inc.
Meal Delivery Platform Shef Empowers Immigrants and Refugees
Launched in 2019, Shef provides freshly cooked meals that customers can browse and order to be delivered. Shef uses local, home cooks that are trained and safety certified.
Read more at Cool Hunting
These 39 companies are doing corporate social responsibility right
The corporate social responsibility category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors corporate initiatives that use a company’s platform and power to help advance change, either internally or for the community.
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Shef Named to Fast Company’s 2022 List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies
This year's list honors businesses that are making the biggest impact on their industries and culture as a whole—ultimately thriving in today's ever-changing world. These companies are creating the future today with some of the most inspiring…
Y Combinator Top Private Companies 2022
We’re excited to share the 2022 YC Top Companies. In addition to the list of top companies, we also launched the YC Breakthrough Companies list to highlight the fast-growing startups that have received significant additional investment from…
Local community, businesses in the Bay Area band together to aid Afghan refugees.
"Laila Mir, a former accountant and financial advisor, is now cooking and delivering each week nearly a hundred home-cooked Afghan meals for the refugees, with help from Shef, a regional online food service specializing in ethnic cuisines."
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Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups
A $1 billion valuation isn’t what it used to be, as companies reach that milestone with breakneck speed, but there are still plenty of up-and-comers worth keeping an eye on. Here are Forbes’ picks for 25 venture-backed startups most likely…
Boston Globe Coverage
Maryam Boddie, owner of a catering business in Manhattan, was at her wits’ end when COVID forced her to close her enterprise and lose the only income for her family of nine. Then she discovered Shef.com, an online platform where cooks sell…
Home Cooking Startup Shef Demand Rises Amid Pandemic Job Losses
Read more at Business Insider
Sick of Quarantine Cooking? New Companies Let Chefs Prepare Homemade Meals for You
Startups like Shef and WoodSpoon give Covid-impacted professional chefs and excellent home cooks a platform for sharing their food
Read more at Smithsonian Magazine
