LinkedIn · Dec 2024
A hiring post describing Jupiter as transforming grocery shopping with recipes and AI, highlighting a remote-friendly role, salary band, and backend stack.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Jupiter is a Stanford-founded, creator-first food commerce platform that helps recipe creators publish shoppable storefronts, connect with CPG brands, and monetize via brand deals, affiliate commerce, and revenue share. The company originally launched as a predictive grocery-delivery startup and later evolved into a creator monetization layer for food content.
Primary product
A creator-driven recipe and grocery shopping platform for food creators and CPG brands, with shoppable recipe storefronts, brand collaboration tooling, and Instacart affiliate monetization.
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Stanford, California, United States
Team size
10-20
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Creator monetization / social commerce for food creators
Offices
Stanford, California, United States (HQ)
60 29th St Ste 1007, San Francisco, California 94110, United States
Business model
creator monetization platform
marketplace connecting creators and brands
revenue share
affiliate commerce
brand sponsorship management
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$8.1M
Latest round
Seed Round · Mar 2022
Latest amount
$5.3M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Head of Marketplace
Lead Backend Engineer
Investors
Work & culture
Creator-first, lean, fast-growing, Stanford/YC-rooted, and distributed across multiple countries. Public hiring material emphasizes a remote-friendly engineering role, a modern backend stack, and an AI-assisted, recipe-first product mission.
Compensation
A public senior backend engineer posting advertised a $100,000-$150,000 annual base salary band and a remote-friendly role. No broader public compensation philosophy was found.
Product & market
Pricing
Free to join; creators pay nothing upfront and Jupiter takes revenue share only when creators earn or deals close.
Differentiators
- —free branded recipe storefronts
- —built-in Instacart affiliate commerce
- —direct access to 65+ CPG brand partners
- —managed campaign matching, deal negotiation, and payment
- —no monthly platform fee
- —revenue share only when creators earn
- —food-creator-specific product focus
- —SEO-optimized recipe website and DM automation
Technology
Python
Kotlin
Micronaut
Spring
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
RabbitMQ
Google Cloud Platform
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Webflow
Looker
AI tools
Customers
food creators / recipe influencers
CPG brands
home cooks / grocery shoppers
Competitors
Instacart
Pinterest
Creator.co
AspireIQ
GRIN
WordPress
Squarespace
Wix
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$16.2M/year (Growjo estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
2.2K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
PRNewswire · Nov 2022
Highlights a partnership with Half Baked Harvest and shows how Jupiter works with major food creators to turn recipes into shoppable storefronts.
PRNewswire · Sep 2022
Official launch announcement for Jupiter’s creator-first recipe and grocery shopping platform, describing shoppable storefronts, grocery list/shopping flows, and creator monetization.
GlobeNewswire · Nov 2021
Shows Jupiter’s earlier predictive grocery delivery positioning and geographic expansion across Western states.
TechCrunch · Jun 2020
Covers Jupiter’s seed funding and original grocery delivery / meal-planning product direction.
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