Real Food Works provides a totally new way to get healthy and lose weight based on the real food diet. Real Food Works delivers fresh meals made with only all-natural, whole food ingredients. Uniquely, the meals are developed and cooked fresh by a network of local independent restaurants, which create specific meals to meet the real food diet's nutritional requirements—ensuring delicious, healthy food. Based on the best science available, the revolutionary approach results in transformative, sustainable change. Real Food Works also offers a pioneering Soup Cleanse, which improves on juice cleanses with less sugar, more fiber, and fewer calories. Located in Philadelphia, the company was founded by seasoned entrepreneur and healthy food fanatic Lucinda Duncalfe, and is backed by leading investors.
Location: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $200K
Founded date: 2012
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 18.07.2021 | Ben Frankl... | sep.benfra... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 24.10.2013 | - | $200K | - |
Mentions in press and media 16
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| 28.06.2016 | StartUp PHL’s first investment has shut down and nobody wants to talk about it | When healthy meal delivery startup Real Food Works secured $200,000 in seed funding from StartUp PHL in 2013, we were there. It was hailed as a big moment. “City jumps into venture capitalism,” the Inquirer blared. The startup had even move... |
| 30.03.2016 | Delco food delivery company providing meals for national study | Dr. James Lewis, professor of medicine and senior scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Perelman School of Medicine at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, is serving as principal investigator for the study. La... |
| 26.04.2015 | 'Souping' Cleanse is Latest Detox Diet Trend | It follows in the footsteps of a juice cleanse, but you consume soup instead. And just like juicing, the coup cleanse claims to help boost weight loss, give you energy and even make your skin glow. 20-year old Andrea Shen was looking for a... |
| 24.10.2013 | Real Food Works gets $200k in first StartupPHL investment | The City of Philadelphia will take part in investing $200,000 in healthy meal startup Real Food Works as the first investment from its $6 million StartupPHL Seed Fund, the city announced today at a press conference with Mayor Michael Nutter... |
| 24.10.2013 | Real Food Works Raises Funding | Real Food Works, LLC, a Philadelphia, PA-based service featuring healthy meals based on the real food diet, raised an undisclosed amount of funding. Backers included First Round Capital, StartUp PHL, a number of angel investors, and Ben Fra... |
| 07.06.2013 | Real Food Works moves from West Conshohocken to Center City [PHOTOS] | Real Food Works has arrived in Center City. The one-year-old healthy meal subscription service led by tech scene veteran Lucinda Duncalfe moved into a 2,500 square feet space on the outskirts of Chinatown at 13th and Race Streets late last ... |
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| 12.12.2012 | Will Philly’s second tech startup community survive longer than the first? asks Mike Krupit | Will what we’re building last? The shared offices and community hubs like N3rd Street and in the Philadelphia Building. The events and the conversation, the jobs and perception, the culture and shared goals. All told, is the entrepreneurial... |
| 10.12.2012 | Bootstrapping in Philadelphia: why focusing on revenue, rather than investment, fits here [VIDEO] | When John Fazio and Chris Alfano tried to open their own video game center after dropping out of Drexel, they became increasingly frustrated with trying to raise capital the way they say their business classes had taught them, by trying to ... |
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