Yummly
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Type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Software , Internet , Kitchen Appliances |
Founded | October 2008 |
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Headquarters | San Carlos, California |
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Products | Search |
Parent | Whirlpool Corporation |
Website | yummly.com |
Yummly is an American website and mobile app that provides users recipes via recommendations and a search engine. Yummly uses a knowledge graph to offer a semantic web search engine for food , cooking and recipes . [1] [2]
In 2014, Yummly had 15 million active users in the US and launched international websites in the UK, Germany and The Netherlands. [3]
In May 2017, the company was acquired by appliance maker Whirlpool Corporation and allowed to operate as a subsidiary, keeping its current head office. [4] [5]
History
The company was founded by David Feller and Vadim Geshel in early 2009. Feller was previously with Half.com , eBay and StumbleUpon . Yummly raised 7.8 million in venture capital and was backed by First Round Capital , Harrison Metal Capital, Intel Capital , and Unilever Ventures. [6]
The Yummly app was named "Best of 2014" in Apple's App Store . [7]
API
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. [8]
See also
References
- ↑ "The Technology Behind The Food Porn Boom" . Fast Company . Retrieved 10 June 2014 .
- ↑ Goldfisher, Alistair (Nov 24, 2010). "Startup Yummly like "Google for food" " . Reuters . Thomson Reuters . Retrieved Feb 16, 2015 .
- ↑ "Yummly Takes Its Recipe Discovery Platform International With U.K. Site & iOS App Launch" . TechCrunch . AOL. 15 January 2014 . Retrieved 14 February 2015 .
- ↑ Clark Thompson, Ashlee (4 May 2017). "Whirlpool buys Yummly recipe site, app" . CNET . CBS Interactive . Retrieved 4 May 2017 .
- ↑ Lunden, Ingrid (4 May 2017). "Whirlpool acquires Yummly, the recipe search engine last valued at $100M" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 4 May 2017 .
- ↑ "Semantic Recipe Search Engine Yummly Raises $6M From Unilever And Others" . TechCrunch . AOL. 21 March 2012 . Retrieved 14 February 2015 .
- ↑ "Apple Says These Are the Best Apps of 2014" . Time . Retrieved 8 December 2014 .
- ↑ Fitchard, Kevin (March 20, 2013). "Yummly opens up its recipe API to food app developers" . Gigaom . Archived from the original on March 3, 2021 . Retrieved February 17, 2015 .