Ever find yourself pinning food recipes on Pinterest with no plan to execute on making the dish? Or desperately trying to find a quick and easy meal to use up your leftovers?
We’ve all been there. And Foodspace, a Boston-based startup, aims to help.
Foodspace manages your food in one spot by being your inspiration, organizer and cookbook all in one. The company plans to create a community of food lovers and enthusiasts, while enabling people to cook better and try new recipes.
More broadly, Foodspace’s goal is to “bring together food bloggers, consumers and grocery retail chains together to simplify the process and make cooking fun again for everyone,” according to its press materials.
CEO Ayo Oshinaike came up with the idea for Foodspace through growing frustrations with meal prepping and wasting food in college. Trying to tackle the problems of reducing food waste and improving nutrition, Oshinaike decided to go for a tech solution.
Foodspace is a one-stop shop for all things food-related. The app allows you to find ingredients, save and share your recipes, turn your saved recipes into shopping lists and receive delivered groceries via Instacart. It also has a chrome extension that allows you to save recipes to Foodspace’s site with the click of a button.
The food tech startup plans to use machine learning to come up with personalized solutions for your food needs.
“We are taking out all the complicated and tedious parts that come with meal planning and are guiding people on our platform to make healthy decisions” Ayo Oshinaike told Built In.
The app launched in July and is planning on rolling out new features, including a reward system that will donate meals to the nonprofit Feeding America and an influencer program partnering with several famous chefs.
Foodspace has four employees sitting in Boston and hopes to hire in software development and marketing in the future. It is currently halfway to its goal of raising $600,000 in early-stage funding.
