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Home food marketplace Cookr raises $1-M

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Chennai-based home food tech marketplace startup Cookr has raised USD 1 million (INR 8.25 crore) pre-seed investment led by executives at Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, Titan Company, M2P Fintech, WilcoSource LLC, RXDataScience Inc, Quadrand Resource LLC, and the Social Company. The company plans to deploy the funds to add more features to the platform, expand the team, and launch the marketplace across India. Launched by Praba Santhanakrishnan, Saravanakumar Kandasamy and Nirmalkumar Muthu, Cookr offers a range of home-cooked food options with more than 500 home cooks on the platform, catering to customers' dietary needs and preferences. Cookr claims that all its partner cooks are FSSAI-certified and currently operational in nine cities in Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Hosur, Chidambaram, Thanjavur, Salem, Vellore, and Kumbakonam. The company looks to onboard 2,00,000 home cooks over the next 5 years.