Splendid Spoon Raises $12 Million In Series B Funding Led By Nicoya
02/09/22, 10:08 AM
Money raised
$12 million
Round Type
series b
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, Farmer's 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 Spoon's 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.
Company Info
Additional Info
Splendid Spoon is a female-founded company disrupting the health & wellness industry. We believe diet related illnesses can be healed through the power of mother nature's medicine: plant-based eats! Unlike many meal delivery companies, our plant-based, gluten-free smoothies, shots, soups, grain bowls and noodles are fully ready-to-eat, and taste like the comfort of a homemade meal, so you create balance without even thinking about it. Our founder, Nicole Centeno, is a true entrepreneur: a trained chef, a former research biologist published in Nutrition and Metabolism, the author of Soup Cleanse cookbook (Rodale) and a mother of three.