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Tovala

“Can subsidized smart-oven hardware create a durable, high-retention consumer meal-subscription business?”

Founded2015
HQChicago, Illinois, United States
Latest roundSeries C ($56M)
IndustryE-commerce / DTC brand

The story

Tovala is a Chicago-based food-tech company founded in 2015 that pairs a proprietary Wi-Fi-connected countertop smart oven with a weekly fresh-meal subscription. The company has scaled from a hardware-first Kickstarter-era startup into a subscription meal service that has delivered over 50 million meals, subsidizing the oven hardware to lock in recurring meal revenue. It remains a pure DTC consumer brand with no embedded finance product surface — customer payments are the only financial workflow.

Last 12 months

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Product timeline

2015

Founded in Chicago as Maestro Food Co., building a smart countertop oven paired with meal kits.· launch

2017

Raised $9.2M seed to sell $399 smart ovens with meal subscriptions.· funding

2021

Closed $30M Series C to expand to a second West Coast fulfillment facility.· funding

The stack

0 layers disclosed in Tovala’s embedded-finance stack

Accounting gap: none

Tovala — frequently asked

Where is Tovala headquartered?

Tovala is founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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