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Investor (barely)
Jun 2020
We’re Hi! - it’s short for Human Improvement. We’re launching in the first half of 2020 on a mission to help humans’ lives a bit better by making it easier to make smart decisions.
We’re starting with food, more specifically, we’re starting with protein powder. We got tired of seeing giant plastic jugs filled with ingredients from unsustainable sources and we wanted to see something different and knew others would too.
Our approach is simple - make things simple, be good to people and the world we live in and bring some fun to it. We think everything begins with good communication and good product. Some people call that branding. We call it being human.
Investor (barely)
Mar 2020
Margaret and Ian Wishingrad, a husband and wife duo that founded an advertising agency in New York, loved building brands so much they decided to make one for their son Ellis.
Meet Three Wishes Cereal: a high protein, low sugar, grain free breakfast cereal, that tastes like the cereals of your childhood, made with modern day clean ingredients. Three Wishes is made of chickpea, pea protein, and tapioca - a feat of food science that took 2 years of development. With 70% less sugar and as much as 8x more protein than their decadent counterparts, there’s nothing on- shelf like it.
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2020
Investor (barely)
Jun 2020
We’re Hi! - it’s short for Human Improvement. We’re launching in the first half of 2020 on a mission to help humans’ lives a bit better by making it easier to make smart decisions.
We’re starting with food, more specifically, we’re starting with protein powder. We got tired of seeing giant plastic jugs filled with ingredients from unsustainable sources and we wanted to see something different and knew others would too.
Our approach is simple - make things simple, be good to people and the world we live in and bring some fun to it. We think everything begins with good communication and good product. Some people call that branding. We call it being human.
Investor (barely)
Mar 2020
Margaret and Ian Wishingrad, a husband and wife duo that founded an advertising agency in New York, loved building brands so much they decided to make one for their son Ellis.
Meet Three Wishes Cereal: a high protein, low sugar, grain free breakfast cereal, that tastes like the cereals of your childhood, made with modern day clean ingredients. Three Wishes is made of chickpea, pea protein, and tapioca - a feat of food science that took 2 years of development. With 70% less sugar and as much as 8x more protein than their decadent counterparts, there’s nothing on- shelf like it.
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Jan 2015
The Home Chef team is a unique mix of chefs, creators, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers. By combining our diverse backgrounds, distinct talents, and consistent willingness to support one another, we’re building new ways to navigate the booming meal kit industry.
Our team runs on a spirit of autonomy, trust, and inclusion that allows for quick decisions and inventive thinking. Our organic growth is supported by our employee’s constant eagerness to suggest and try new things. It’s the same energy, combined with our customer-first mentality, that landed us Built in Chicago’s Startup of the Year Moxie award.
We’re growing quickly, across all departments, locations, and levels. Our extraordinary management team is simultaneously humble and inspiring, taking cues from our CEO who recently was honored as EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
We encourage our employees to go as far as their ambitions take them while we equally strive to create a fun work environment. We know that fun at work doesn’t always mean a ping pong table - it can mean collaboration, communication, and creating new ideas and projects with your colleagues. If you’re ready to be part of the action, we’re ready to connect with you. There are no limits to where we can go together.
