Venture Pill | E99: The Etsy of Food, Strength Training App, and Optimizing the Gig Economy

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On this week’s dose, (1:49) we start things off with a breakdown on HomeCooks, a startup that allows chefs to cook affordable and delicious frozen meals for anyone to order, fresh off their $3.1M seed round. Then (8:40), we cover Ladder, a subscription strength training app that makes it easier to maintain a consistent strength training routine, hot off their $12M Series A. Lastly (14:53), we close out this week’s dose with a discussion on Jitjatjo, a gig economy marketplace that’s making flexible hiring easier for workers and enterprises, following their $30M Series B.

Sources:

https://home-cooks.co.uk/pages/our-manifesto

https://tech.eu/2023/12/05/homecooks-from-facebook-group-to-seed-investment/

https://www.joinladder.com/

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231206299897/en/Ladder-Raises-12-Million-Series-A-to-Demystify-Strength-Training-and-Accelerate-Growth

https://www.jitjatjo.com/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/12/gig-marketplace-jitjatjo-raises-30m-to-grow-into-new-markets/

Music Credit: Chapter One by Cole Bauer and Dean Keeton

https://www.colebauer.com/

https://www.instagram.com/deankeeton/?hl=en

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