redwood city california key people david feller vadim geshel products search website www.yummly.com yummly is a mobile app and website that provides recipe recommendations personalized to the individual s tastes semantic recipe search a digital recipe box shopping list and one hour grocery delivery . the yummly app is available for ios android and web browsers . the yummly app was named best of 2014 in apple s app store . 1 yummly uses patent pending technology 2 and a hand curated knowledge graph to offer a semantic web search engine for food cooking and recipes . yummly allows users to search by ingredient diet allergy nutrition price cuisine time taste meal courses and sources ; and learns about users based on their likes and dislikes . yummly uses this information to categorize food for search and make recommendations . 3 yummly is located in redwood city california 4 previously at 165 university avenue the former home of other successful internet companies 5 in 2014 yummly had 15 million active users in the us and has launched international websites in the uk 6 germany and the netherlands . contents 1 history 2 api 3 see also 4 references 5 further reading 6 external links history edit the company was founded by david feller and vadim geshel in early 2009 . feller was previously with half.com ebay and stumbleupon . yummly has raised 7.8 million in venture capital and is backed by first round capital harrison metal capital intel capital and unilever ventures 4 api edit in march 2013 yummly opened access to its application programming interface to other companies as a paid service . the api allows searching for ingredients cooking methods and nutritional data . 7 see also edit list of websites about food and drink references edit apple says these are the best apps of 2014 . time magazine . retrieved 8 december 2014 . the technology behind the food porn boom . fast company . fast company . retrieved 10 june 2014 . goldfisher alistair nov 24 2010 . startup yummly like google for food . reuters . thomson reuters . retrieved feb 16 2015 . a b semantic recipe search engine yummly raises 6m from unilever and others . techcrunch . aol . retrieved 14 february 2015 . a building blessed with tech success . cnet . archived from the original on july 18 2012 . retrieved 4 october 2002 . yummly takes its recipe discovery platform international with u.k. site & ios app launch . techcrunch . aol . retrieved 14 february 2015 . fitchard kevin march 20 2013 . yummly opens up its recipe api to food app developers . gigaom . gigaom . retrieved february 17 2015 . further reading edit reuters nov 24 2010 startup yummly like google for food about.com the top ten search engines of 2010 techcrunch jun 21 2010 yummly s semantic search engine is the ultimate online cookbook for foodies thrillist jun 22 2010 a search engine to solve mealtime indecision tasting table may 13 2010 dinner diviner a recipe searcher that knows you best external links edit yummly.com yummly mobile app retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title yummly & oldid 735485386 categories cooking websitesinternet properties established in 2009websites about food and drinksocial networking servicessemantic webonline companiessemantic web companiescommunity websitesworks about cookingrecommender systemsaggregation websitesdomain specific search enginesios softwareandroid operating system softwareuniversal windows platform apps 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 21 august 2016 at 02 02 . 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