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HelloFresh
Meal kit subscription service that focuses on premium quality and ecological food
At a glance
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- Berlin, Germany
- Listing
- IPO 2017
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning HelloFresh.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed2 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later6 investors entered at this stage
Rocket Internet
Baillie Gifford- GJGarland James
- VVVorwerk Ventures
Insight Partners- PVPhenomen Ventures
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former HelloFresh employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
DIDideroEst. 2023
Tom PetitUnited States
Karl VillanuevaGermany
Tobias BrühneGermany
FOFoodpandaEst. 2012
Simon Sebastian SchminckeSingapore
Ramon HakenNetherlandsGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
1 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where HelloFresh was the backer or acquirer, 2018–2020. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
3 deals across HelloFresh's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where HelloFresh deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
HelloFresh's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about HelloFresh on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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