A meal kit startup with a focus on healthful recipes and organic ingredients, Sun Basket, has just raised $9 million in series C-2 round of venture funding led by Unilever Ventures, with Baseline Ventures and Founders Circle Capital joining the round. The investment brings the startup’s total capital raised to-date to $52 million.
Sun Basket delivers recipes and pre-measured ingredients to customers who follow a gluten-free, paleo or vegetarian diet. Executive Chef Justine Kelly, of Slanted Door and Iron Chef fame, is the culinary genius behind the company’s recipes.
Sun Basket CEO and co-founder Adam Zbar said the company recently opened a facility in the Midwest that allows it to deliver meal kits to 98% of the U.S. He said that makes Sun Basket the biggest direct-to-consumer…