What Cozymeal does

Cozymeal is a culinary experience marketplace founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform connects food lovers and corporate clients with professional chefs, sommeliers, brewers, and caterers (termed "Food and Alcohol Experts") who host cooking classes, private chef dinners, food tours, at-home hibachi experiences, and team building events. Operating across 400+ cities in the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the UAE, Cozymeal has facilitated over 50,000 experiences and accumulated 45,000+ five-star reviews with a 98% recommendation rate across Google, Yelp, and TripAdvisor.

The underlying technology is a web and mobile marketplace platform enabling chefs to list experiences and guests to book directly, with payment processing via Stripe, PayPal, and Apple Pay. The product portfolio spans in-person cooking classes, private chef bookings, at-home hibachi, food tours, brewery tours, and wine tastings; online variants include virtual cooking classes, mixology classes, virtual wine tastings, and online team building with optional kit delivery. Adjacent offerings include Cozymeal Magazine (content marketing), the Cozymeal Shop (cookware and edible products), and a gift card program ($10–$1,000 denominations, never expiring).

The business model operates on four revenue streams: (1) marketplace commission via a Host Service Fee charged on payments between guests and Food and Alcohol Experts; (2) recurring subscription fees paid by chefs/hosts on monthly or annual auto-renewing plans; (3) product sales through the Cozymeal Shop; and (4) gift card sales. Pricing for cooking classes starts at $49–$50 per person. The customer base is split between individual consumers (primary) and corporate teams (secondary), with named enterprise clients including Google, Airbnb, and Nike for team building engagements.

Name

Cozymeal

Legal name

Cozymeal, Inc.

Website

https://cozymeal.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cozymeal is a culinary experience marketplace founded in 2014 that connects consumers and corporate clients with professional chefs across 400+ cities in 7 countries, offering cooking classes, private chefs, food tours, team building, and online experiences on a commission-based platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Culinary Experiences Marketplace

NAICS

Special Food Services (7223), Caterers (72232)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Culinary Experiences (Chef’s Table, Home Dining, Market-to-Meal) (THAJALAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Private Chef & In-Home Dining Services (HSACAGAE), Event Catering (Weddings, Social, Private Parties) (THAFAIAB)

Keywords

• Culinary experiences
• Cooking classes
• Private chef services
• Food tours
• Team building events

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices55 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Marketplace Transaction Fees: Cozymeal charges a Host Service Fee for any payments made via the Cozymeal service from Food and Alcohol Experts. The platform facilitates bookings for cooking classes, private chef services, food tours, and other culinary experiences, taking a percentage of each transaction.
2. Subscription Fees: Service subscription fees for chefs using the platform, with monthly or annual package options available. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled.
3. Product Sales: Cozymeal offers products and merchandise for sale via the website including cookware, barware, cooking kits, oils, spices, edible products, cookbooks, recipes, and ingredients.
4. Gift Cards: Gift cards purchasable for any value between $10 and $1,000, redeemable for any food experience or cookware on the platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Cozymeal operates an online marketplace that connects food enthusiasts with professional chefs and culinary hosts for in-person and virtual cooking experiences, private chef dinners, food tours, and corporate team-building events. Independent third-party chefs list their culinary services on the platform, and Cozymeal facilitates bookings and transactions between chefs and end customers.

Product overview

Cozymeal operates as a marketplace platform connecting food lovers with culinary experiences across 400+ cities globally. The platform offers a comprehensive portfolio centered around in-person and online culinary experiences: Cooking Classes and Food Tours serve as the core in-person offerings, while Private Chefs and At-Home Hibachi provide personalized dining services. The digital portfolio includes Online Cooking Classes, Online Mixology Classes, Virtual Wine Tastings, and Online Team Building activities, all available with optional ingredient kit delivery. The platform extends to a gift card program (Cozymeal Gift Cards), an e-commerce store (Cozymeal Shop) selling cookware and edible products, and Cozymeal Magazine as a content extension. Team Building Activities serve the corporate segment, while the broader marketplace supports Food and Alcohol Experts including chefs, sommeliers, brewers, and caterers who host events and offer prepared meals for home delivery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cooking Classes

Quantifiable outcome

• 98% recommendation rate on Google, Yelp, TripAdvisor
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• The Honest KitchenminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 5 January 2026The Honest Kitchen collaborated with Cozymeal to offer a virtual cooking class for preparing dog meals in celebration of National Dog Week 2026. The class included creating a three-course meal for dogs using human-grade ingredients, highlighting health benefits and bonding experiences of cooking for pets.
• Eka ExperiencesminorOthersCozymeal is profiled alongside Eka Experiences and GetYourGuide in a market research report on the Experience Economy in Travel & Tourism (2026), analyzing how experience economy trends influence the travel and tourism industry.
• GetYourGuideminorOthersCozymeal is compared with GetYourGuide in a market research report analyzing experience economy trends in travel and tourism.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Eka Experiences: Curated marketplace for unique local experiences including culinary classes. Profiled alongside Cozymeal in industry analyst coverage as a comparable experience-economy player.
• Cookly: Marketplace focused on cooking classes and food tours across multiple Asian and European destinations. Competes with Cozymeal in the culinary-experiences niche, particularly in Cozymeal's existing international markets (Italy, Spain, Portugal).
• ClassBento: Marketplace for in-person workshops and classes including a strong cooking-class category. Operates as a curated two-sided marketplace for experiences — same business model as Cozymeal, with regional concentration in Australia/UK.

Broad incumbents

• Viator: TripAdvisor-owned marketplace for tours, activities, and culinary experiences. Competes with Cozymeal on food tours, cooking classes, and private chef services globally, backed by TripAdvisor's travel SEO authority.
• MasterClass: Premium online video-class platform featuring celebrity chefs and cooking content. Competes with Cozymeal's Online Cooking Classes category, particularly for consumers preferring pre-recorded celebrity instruction over live chef interaction.
• Eventbrite: Self-service ticketing and event-discovery platform that hosts cooking classes, food tours, and culinary workshops. Overlaps with Cozymeal as a discovery and booking layer, particularly for chef-led events and team-building activities.
• Airbnb Experiences: Airbnb's in-destination Experiences marketplace includes cooking classes, food tours, and private chef offerings. It competes directly with Cozymeal for both consumer culinary bookings and corporate team-building, leveraging Airbnb's massive traveler traffic and brand.

Direct peers

• EatWith: Marketplace connecting travelers and locals with home-hosted dining experiences and cooking classes. Closely comparable to Cozymeal's private chef and at-home dining categories, with similar supply-side model of vetted local hosts.
• Withlocals: Marketplace for private tours, food tours, and home-cooking experiences hosted by locals. Directly comparable to Cozymeal on curated culinary experiences, private chefs, and small-group formats.
• GetYourGuide: Global tours, activities, and experiences marketplace with a strong culinary category (cooking classes, food tours, private chefs). Explicitly identified alongside Cozymeal in industry analyst reports as a direct competitor in the experience-economy category.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TheCozymeal
• Facebookfacebook.com/cozymeal
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/3374789

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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