san francisco california that helps companies offer in office meals to their employees from a diverse range of local food sources . 1 2 zerocater currently feeds about 500 companies a month including buzzfeed squarespace tumblr venmo classpass and foursquare . 2 3 zerocater founder arram sabeti described the company as a pandora for food . 4 as of january 2015 it is operational in the san francisco bay area new york city and chicago . 2 contents 1 history 2 media coverage 3 references 4 external links history edit zerocater was founded by arram sabeti . sabeti moved to the san francisco bay area with the goal of working on startups . he initially worked at ben & jerry s then at the startup justin.tv . while at justin.tv he managed ordering lunch for the office and some other companies asked him to help with managing their lunch as well . sensing that this might be a new business opportunity sabeti left justin.tv to work full time on the company which became known as zerocater . he convinced a developer to join him at the startup and successfully applied to and was accepted at the startup accelerator y combinator in 2011 . 3 5 although initially operational only in the san francisco bay area zerocater started operations in new york city in april 2013 and chicago in january 2015 . 6 in august 2015 it was reported that zerocater had facilitated 100 million in food purchases despite raising only 1.5 million . 7 8 media coverage edit zerocater has been covered in techcrunch 5 fast company 4 the wall street journal 9 bloomberg businessweek 10 business insider 11 forbes 12 cnnmoney 13 and many other mainstream and technology publications . 14 references edit zerocater . crunchbase . retrieved july 31 2014 . a b c zerocater . retrieved july 31 2014 . a b from selling scoops of ice cream to founding zerocater . techcrunch . april 6 2013 . retrieved july 31 2014 . a b zax david march 22 2012 . fast talk how zerocater the pandora for food hacks your lunch problem . hungry meet arram sabeti ceo of zerocater . apart from solving the logistics of group delivery ordering sabeti also throws a mean sausage fest . . retrieved july 31 2014 . a b kincaid jason july 6 2011 . zerocater because lunch at the office doesn t have to be a complete pain . techcrunch . retrieved july 31 2014 . lawler ryan april 8 2013 . zerocater rides the wave of food to launch in new york city . techcrunch . retrieved july 31 2014 . levy ari august 19 2015 . you can t get this from ubereats or instacart . cnbc . retrieved september 2 2015 . duchman zalmi august 24 2015 . zerocater hits 100 million in sales with only 1.5 million in funding . forbes . retrieved september 2 2015 . ovide shira july 11 2012 . work perk free meal rule widens . wall street journal . retrieved july 31 2014 . levy ari july 12 2012 . arram sabeti s zerocater feeds other startups . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved july 31 2014 . 14 startups that will change the way you eat . business insider . retrieved july 31 2014 . arielle patrice scott march 5 2013 . 9 awesome apps for your startup office manager . forbes . retrieved july 31 2014 . kim erin august 15 2012 . the startup that feeds other startups literally . cnnmoney . retrieved july 31 2014 . press and news coverage . zerocater . retrieved july 31 2014 . external links edit official website crunchbase profile v t e y combinator companies 7 cups of tea 80 000 hours 9gag airbnb algolia buttercoin canopy labs cleartax codecademy cofactor genomics coinbase creative market cymmetria disqus dropbox easypost fullstack academy futureadvisor gigster gocardless goldbely gusto heroku hipmunk homejoy icracked instacart justin.tv kickback lendup loopt lumi meadow newsblur octopart omgpop one month optimizely ownlocal pebble podium.co product hunt quartzy reddit renthop scribd smartasset songkick standard treasury streak strikingly stripe survata swiftype true link upverter urx voat watsi webflow weebly wepay workflowy wufoo xobni zenefits zerocater category full list retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zerocater & oldid 743700658 categories y combinator companiescatering and food service companies of the united statesfood and drink in the san francisco bay areacompanies based in san francisco 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 10 october 2016 at 19 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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