Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
YC-backed private-chef marketplace that lets customers book vetted chefs for at-home dinners, events, and short-term rentals; public 2026 posts and hiring copy also show an AI-native rebuild and expansion into Europe.
Primary product
Private chef booking marketplace for at-home, event, and holiday-rental dining
Founded
2019
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom (64 Nile Street, N1 7SR)
Team size
30-40
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Food and Beverage Services
Sub-industry
Private chef marketplace / hospitality tech
Offices
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Business model
Stage
equity crowdfunding
Total raised
$3.9M
Latest round
Equity crowdfunding + SAFE · Dec 2024
Latest amount
$1.3M
Dec 2024
Jan 2022 · Y Combinator
Dec 2021 · Google for Startups
May 2021
Apr 2021
Leadership
Co-CEO / Founder
Co-founder
Head of US Partnerships
Head of Customer & Chef Success
Head of Engineering
Investors
Founder-led, fast-moving startup culture with a strong ownership ethos. Public hiring copy says engineers should design systems, orchestrate agents, self-learn from outcomes, and ship with AI workflows rather than spend most time coding manually.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public engineering postings show £80K-£120K GBP plus equity for senior software engineers; another role advertised $50K-$100K for a remote European-timezone performance marketer. Overall signals point to equity-heavy compensation and high autonomy.
Benefits
Pricing
Transparent per-person pricing with chef-set minimum spends; deposit and split-bill options are available, and the marketplace also earns commission on bookings.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M (company profile source); Crowdcube pitch also described $6.7M annualized turnover in Dec 2024
Estimated monthly visits
100.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Founder Heinin Zhang posted on LinkedIn that yhangry was 'shutting down the yhangry chef marketplace' after 6 years and pivoting to AI. Later 2026 posts suggest an AI-native rebuild is underway, so the operational status is somewhat ambiguous.
SourceLinkedIn · Jul 2026
Siddhi Mittal said the company has been rebuilding yhangry with AI and is positioning it as an AI-native platform.
LinkedIn · May 2026
yhangry announced live bookings in France, Italy, and Spain and framed the move as expansion of its private-chef marketplace into Europe.
Forbes · Dec 2024
Profile of the founders and company; notes that Yhangry closed its second $1M investment round in two weeks and had hosted more than 135,000 guests.
Crowdcube · Nov 2024
Crowdcube pitch for a December 2024 fundraise; the company reported £699,070 raised from 310 investors plus $610,500 in SAFE funding, alongside $6.7M annualized turnover and 5,300+ bookings YTD.
TechCrunch · Apr 2021
TechCrunch covered yhangry's $1.5M seed round and named several angel and VC backers.