companies

SideChef

App di assistenza in cucina di San Jose con oltre 18.000 ricette intelligenti passo dopo passo, guida vocale a mani libere e un generatore di ricette da foto basato sull’IA.

In inglese

SideChef was founded in San Jose, California in 2013 by Kevin Yu, who has described starting the company without knowing how to cook and wanting a more guided alternative to static recipe blogs. The app grew around interactive, step-by-step recipes with photos, video, and voice-guided instructions rather than a simple scrolling ingredient list, and it has raised more than $16 million across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds, with LG among its investors and smart-appliance partners. Beyond the consumer app, SideChef licenses its recipe and guided-cooking technology to appliance makers for connected ovens and cooktops, which has become a meaningful part of its business model alongside the free-to-download mobile app. In 2024 the company added RecipeGen AI, a feature that generates a recipe draft from a photo of a finished dish, extending the product from recipe delivery into recipe creation.

Founded

2013

Headquarters

San Jose, United States

Sector

consumer