Not So Dark is a food tech company that creates crowd-pleasing virtual food brands built for the online delivery market. Our profitable turnkey franchise business model is quick to set up, easy to operate, highly cost-efficient and delivers fast ROI.
Want to apply? https://bit.ly/apply-NSD
It’s built on an agile business model that leverages smart kitchens, connected shelves, robotics and BI analytics to continually optimize costs, speed logistics and increase profit margins. Franchisees can plug and unplug brands at any time to adapt fast to trends and market changes – which makes it a very low-risk venture.
We’ve raised €20M in 2021 and are building out rapidly across Europe.
Interested? Get in touch at expansion@notsodark.com
Want to join the team? We’re a group of food techies and virtual food brand creators who think big, move fast and never stop pushing beyond what’s currently considered possible in food tech.
Our aim is to improve the daily lives of urban people by bringing a more pleasurable and satisfying at-home dining experience. We do this by combining smart tech, data analytics, market research and food industry knowledge to make online food delivery more profitable for operators and more pleasurable for diners.
We’re always on the lookout for fresh thinkers, hard workers, leaders and tech trendspotters who want to make a difference.
If you love the idea of working for a company that takes an innovative approach to everything and have great skills to bring to our product, marketing, ops, supply, support or admin departments – get in touch with us at: rh@notsodark.com
Want to apply? https://bit.ly/apply-NSD
It’s built on an agile business model that leverages smart kitchens, connected shelves, robotics and BI analytics to continually optimize costs, speed logistics and increase profit margins. Franchisees can plug and unplug brands at any time to adapt fast to trends and market changes – which makes it a very low-risk venture.
We’ve raised €20M in 2021 and are building out rapidly across Europe.
Interested? Get in touch at expansion@notsodark.com
Want to join the team? We’re a group of food techies and virtual food brand creators who think big, move fast and never stop pushing beyond what’s currently considered possible in food tech.
Our aim is to improve the daily lives of urban people by bringing a more pleasurable and satisfying at-home dining experience. We do this by combining smart tech, data analytics, market research and food industry knowledge to make online food delivery more profitable for operators and more pleasurable for diners.
We’re always on the lookout for fresh thinkers, hard workers, leaders and tech trendspotters who want to make a difference.
If you love the idea of working for a company that takes an innovative approach to everything and have great skills to bring to our product, marketing, ops, supply, support or admin departments – get in touch with us at: rh@notsodark.com
Location: France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $80M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 09.11.2022 | Verlinvest | verlinvest... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 05.10.2022 | Series B | $80M | Verlinvest |
Mentions in press and media 7
| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.05.2023 | Data snapshot: France bucks global trend as agrifoodtech investment surges 39% in 2022 | Data snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 05.10.2022 | Not So Dark Raises $80M in Series B Funding | Not So Dark, a Paris, France-based food tech startup, raised $80m in Series B funding. The round, which brings total funding to date to $105m, was led by Kharis Capital and Verlinvest with participation from Conviviality Ventures. The compa... |
| 29.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Food delivery’s latest unicorn, $80m for virtual restaurants, Pat Brown’s new venture | Thailand-based food delivery service Line Man Wongnai became the sector’s latest company to achieve unicorn status with a massive Series B round. Virtual restaurant/cloud kitchen startups like Not So Dark and CloudEats continue to rake in t... |
| 26.09.2022 | Not So Dark steps into the light in $80 million round | Paris-based online brand food delivery industry solution Not So Dark has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round led by Kharis Capital and Verlinvest in partnership with Conviviality Ventures. The new capital is slated to be used to ... |
| 26.09.2022 | Not So Dark helps restaurants run a second delivery-focused business | French startup Not So Dark has raised an $80 million Series B funding round led by Kharis Capital and Verlinvest, with Convivialité Ventures also participating. The startup has launched digital food delivery brands that you can find in food... |
| 17.11.2021 | Data Snapshot: Online Restaurant & Mealkit investment was a $326m variety pack in H1 2021 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Companies in the Online Restaurant & Mealkit category raised $326 million in H1 2021, according to ... |
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