Food Genius - AngelList

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Food Genius is big data for the food industry. We serve up actionable, real-time data on emerging trends for the food industry and restaurant data, menus, and taste-based suggestions to app developers through the Food Genius API. By tracking more than 16.1m restaurant menu items and how consumers interact with them over time, Food Genius leverages the web and mobile apps to generate high quality and incredibly granular data for an array of commercial and consumer uses.

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Justin Massa

Founder & CEO of Food Genius, data wonk. Previously Dir of Dev at Metro Chi Info Center and founder & Exec Dir at MoveSmart.org.
Cece Yu

UI at Alltuition. Working on Hotseat, and contributing to Food Genius. UChicago grad. Loves product, IxD, and brands that span the digital and the physical.
Eli Rosenberg

Co-founder & COO at Food Genius, ops + sales whiz. Previously senior SEM guru at Norvax, ops at Qualtex Corp.
E. Cooper

Co-founder & CTO of Food Genius, API & HTML5 whiz. Previously lead dev at Brave New Films, back-end dev at SUMO (Mozilla), API dev at Social Actions.
Benjamin Stanley

Co-founder & Dir of Culinary Research at Food Genius, mad chef/scientist. Previously innovation chef at major CPG, research chef at Bell Flavorings & Fragrance.

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Excelerate

Excelerate Labs is an intensive summer accelerator for startups driven by proven entrepreneurs and investors. Based in Chicago, IL.
Adam Koopersmith

Partner at NewWorld Ventures
Steve Farsht

Investor with Operating Background, Extensive Board Level Experience

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Excelerate

Excelerate Labs is an intensive summer accelerator for startups driven by proven entrepreneurs and investors. Based in Chicago, IL.

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Harper Reed

CTO at Obama for America, former CTO of Threadless and Advisor at Sandbox Industries.
Sam Yagan

Founder & CEO at OkCupid.com
Troy Henikoff

Troy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Excelerate & founder of SurePayroll
Steve Farsht

Investor with Operating Background, Extensive Board Level Experience
Dylan Richard

Director of Engineering @ Obama for America. Previously @threadless, @crateandbarrel. I'm a big fan of the internets.
Pascal Bordat

Owner, Partner Optivalue

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Brian Fields

Manage Tribune Company's acquisitions, digital media investments and joint ventures.

“approaching a milestone - we'll hit 200 API keys sent out by the end of the month!”

6 days ago

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Kapil Chaudhary Great team, really understands the space and how to leverage data to enable their clients to make better decisions.

1 month ago · Justin Massa likes this

Brian Fields I met Justin and team through Excelerate in 2011. His relentless focus on the product, expertise in working with complex data and engaging personality are all reasons why he is destined to succeed.

29 days ago

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