Handpick Receives $3 Million in Series A Funding

Handpick is an innovative food discovery app that’s solving the universal problem of what to do with ingredients, by providing dish ideas using what you have on hand. Handpick’s 10 million socially shared food posts include dishes from 1.6 million content creators worldwide. With offices inSan Francisco,Shanghai, andManila, Handpick is building innovative technologies in food image recognition, food data analysis and ingredient recommendations.

Innovative food discovery app Handpick officially launched its iOS app and website in the U.S., as well as announced its Series A funding. The new app allows food lovers access to over 10 million socially shared food posts from Instagram, hundreds of unique food blogs, and top recipe sites. Handpick’s unique semantic technology also recommends ingredient pairings based on what users have on hand. Handpick’s 10 million socially shared food posts include dishes from 1.6 million content creators worldwide. Download the Handpick apphere.

«We started Handpick to let users input what they already have in their kitchen and find dish ideas using those ingredients», saidPayman Nejati, Handpick chief executive officer. «We’re curating the best dishes from Instagram and top food blogs, making it easy to discover how people around the world use your favorite ingredients».Handpick has received$3 millionin Series A funding after just 9 months of inception. The round was led by ClearVue Partners. Handpick is also backed by angel investors with deep experience throughout the food supply chain including SINODIS founderJean Pierre Chesse, Cathay Capital managing partner Mingpo Cai, and Schneider Electric CEOJean Pascal Tricoire.

The app makes it easy to save interesting dish posts by adding them totopicswhich can be shared with others. By following differenttopics, users get notified when new dishes are added, making Handpick a reliable source for continuously refreshed food content. This means users can find dish topics titled anything fromGluten-free Dessertsto10 Best Superbowl Snacksto7 Ways To Use Tofu. Clic here to view the video.

With its new approach of curating content from Instagram, Handpick features over 10 million food posts, thus making it the world’s largest searchable collection of food. The company’s editorial team hand-picks the best dishes daily, allowing users to quickly and easily find great dish ideas without having to pore over thousands of results. The new app also allows users to pick and combine over 10,000 ingredients, more than any other food app available.