Hungryroot Reports $700M Revenue for 2025
New York-based Hungryroot, which describes itself as a personal assistant for healthy eating, announced its 2025 financial results, reporting $700 million in revenue. The company stated revenues were up 55% year-over-year and that it achieved another profitable year, demonstrating significant growth in the AI-personalized grocery and meal-kit market.
- Founder and CEO Ben McKean is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Savored, a restaurant yield-management platform, which was acquired by Groupon. Before his entrepreneurial career, he worked in technology investment banking at Merrill Lynch. - The company's massive growth stems from a 2019 pivot away from selling a narrow line of consumer packaged goods to becoming an AI-driven personalized grocery service. Since that pivot, the company has grown more than tenfold. - Hungryroot's core technology is a proprietary AI algorithm that uses a combination of machine learning and operations research. The system collects over 100 explicit data points per customer to predict and pre-fill their weekly cart, with the AI selecting about two-thirds of what customers ultimately buy. - The company's revenue growth has been accelerating, reporting $237
