carter area served south east england midlands north west england the south coast of england and most of yorkshire south west england and south wales number of employees 200 website www.gousto.co.uk gousto is a british internet retailer headquartered in shepherds bush london . the company was founded by timo schmidt and james carter 1 in june 2012 . gousto offers recipe kit boxes which include fresh ingredients and step by step chef designed recipes . it has been voted best recipe kit service by the independent 2 the guardian 3 the metro and time out london . 4 the company won retail business of the year at the 2015 startups awards 5 the angel vc deal of the year at the 2015 uk business angels association awards 6 the young entrepreneur of the year award ceo and founder timo schmidt at the 2014 great british entrepreneur awards 7 and the everline future50 at the 2014 real business awards . 8 in august 2013 gousto s co founders appeared on the bbc s dragons den . 9 in december 2015 gousto raised 9m in funding from bgf ventures mmc ventures unilever ventures and the angel co fund . 10 see also edit online grocer list of online grocers references edit gousto nationwide visit www.gousto.co.uk from the argus http www.independent.co.uk life style food and drink features homedelivered gourmet meals cut out shopping and prep time but are they worth the money 10464471.html insley jill . hello fresh and gousto which is better . the guardian . retrieved 2015 09 07 . the best recipe boxes in london tried and tested . time out london . retrieved 2016 02 15 . home startups 100 by startups.co.uk start up a successful business . startups.co.uk . retrieved 2016 02 15 . the ukbaa & bvca award for angel vc deal of the year gousto uk business angels association . www.ukbusinessangelsassociation.org.uk . retrieved 2015 09 07 . 2014 winners the great british entrepreneur awards . retrieved 2015 09 07 . everline future 50 gousto real business . realbusiness.co.uk . retrieved 2016 02 15 . bbc two dragons den gousto raises 9m from bgf and others dragons forced to eat humble pie as reject gousto wins a further 1.2 m of funding mail online gousto dinner box firm lands investment boost gousto raises further investment through the angel cofund q & a gousto s chief executive and co founder timo schmidt analysis retail week foodbev.com news dinner kit specialist gousto partners with ocado external links edit official website this article about an english company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gousto & oldid 742049690 categories internet companies of the united kingdomonline retailers of the united kingdomonline grocersenglish company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 october 2016 at 10 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view