In 2010 Co-founders James Peisker and Chris Carter met in one of downtown Nashville’s favorite kitchens. They immediately hit it off, and decided to jump ship to start their own catering business. As the business grew, Chris and James realized how hard it was to get their hands on quality, local meat from sources they could trust.
They made constant trips to the farmer’s market, but even there, the meat wasn’t cut properly, and was often sold frozen. Yet again, they decided to take matters into their own hands, and started their own butcher shop.
Today, Porter Road works with select local farms, processes all meat in their own facility in Kentucky, and hand-cuts every piece at their Nashville shop. While the butcher shop has become a cult favorite for people who live nearby, Chris and James realized that friends and family outside of Nashville were still stuck eating low quality, grocery store meat. In 2017, they decided to take Porter Road online with the goal of making the world’s best meat accessible nationwide.
They made constant trips to the farmer’s market, but even there, the meat wasn’t cut properly, and was often sold frozen. Yet again, they decided to take matters into their own hands, and started their own butcher shop.
Today, Porter Road works with select local farms, processes all meat in their own facility in Kentucky, and hand-cuts every piece at their Nashville shop. While the butcher shop has become a cult favorite for people who live nearby, Chris and James realized that friends and family outside of Nashville were still stuck eating low quality, grocery store meat. In 2017, they decided to take Porter Road online with the goal of making the world’s best meat accessible nationwide.
Location: United States, Tennessee, Nashville
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $13.7M
Founded date: 2011
Investors 7
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 08.03.2021 | - | $10M | - |
| 29.05.2018 | Seed | $3.7M | - |
Mentions in press and media 14
| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.04.2024 | Rastelli's Meat Delivery review: The best online butcher for elevated staples | Reviews Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Kitchen Rastelli's Meat Delivery review: The best online butcher for elevated staples Written by Connie Chen; edited by Lily A... |
| 11.04.2024 | Porter Road review: A meat delivery service with a huge selection of common and rare cuts | Reviews Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Kitchen Porter Road review: A meat delivery service with a huge selection of common and rare cuts Written by Connie Chen and L... |
| 16.12.2021 | Small Businesses Are Being Honest About Price Increases—and It's Working | Dave Horesh always liked the nice round prices on his company’s website: $25, $50, $100 for custom-made fabric banners and pennants in a rainbow array of felts. But by October, vendors for materials like thread, felt, ink and brass grommets... |
| 06.11.2021 | Holiday Gift Guide 2021: The Best Luxury Mail Order Meat And Seafood | Protein! From the rarest steaks to wild caught fish to heirloom pork and poultry, there is something ... [+] delicious here for every meat eater on your Holiday Gift List!getty |
| 08.03.2021 | Porter Road’s sustainable, whole animal butchery raises $10 million to expand across the US | In the nearly 10 years since it launched as a whole animal butchery out of a storefront in East Nashville, the founders of Porter Road have wanted to herd America’s meat industry down a new path. Now the company has $10 million in financing... |
| 24.12.2020 | AFN’s last minute holiday gift ideas (of course they’re about food!) | In 2020, you get a pass for not thinking ahead on holiday gift-giving. If you’ve been so head-down focused on just getting to the end that you missed Hanukkah completely, and the Winter Solstice, and are now watching the clock tick down to ... |
| 13.04.2020 | How To Buy Meat Online When You Can’t Get A Grocery Delivery Time | Porter Road, a Nashville-based online butcher, offers a wide selection of meat.Andrea Behrends |
| 08.07.2019 | Porter Road Founder Talks Consumer Consciousness and the Future Butcher | Chris Carter and James Peisker had a major beef with the meat industry working in Nashville’s restaurant and catering scene. The pair were committed to sourcing and serving all of their foods directly from the farm, but were spending long h... |
| 30.08.2018 | Porter Road wants to herd the meat industry in a new direction | Down a two-lane road on the outskirts of Princeton, Ky., next to a cemetery and past the Light of Truth Church, is the Porter Road Butcher Meat Co. facility — a staging ground for what the Nashville-based startup Porter Road hopes will be a... |
| 29.05.2018 | Porter Road Raises $3.7M Seed | Porter Road – the first online, whole animal butcher shop catering to today’s consumer appetite for sustainability and transparency in the meat and poultry food system – today announced that it has raised $3.7 million in seed funding from i... |
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