ONEMEAL FOOD PRIVATE LIMITED

What ONEMEAL FOOD PRIVATE LIMITED does

OneMeal Food Private Limited, operating as 'OneMeal', is a Bangalore-based private limited company that runs a subscription-based meal delivery marketplace connecting urban consumers with FSSAI-certified home chefs, predominantly Indian mothers, who prepare regional cuisines (Rajasthani, Gujarati, Bihari, Bengali, South Indian) from their own kitchens. The company serves busy professionals in metro areas who want fresh, home-cooked alternatives to takeout and traditional tiffin services, offering weekly subscription plans for breakfast, lunch, and dinner delivered within dedicated time slots, with meal customization (dish quantity removal, extras like sweets/salads/chutneys) layered on top.

The technology stack is minimal and non-proprietary: ordering is handled through WhatsApp, phone, and a lightweight order portal at order.onemeal.co.in, with a mobile app announced but not yet launched. The OneChef sub-brand supplies the chef side of the marketplace, requiring FSSAI certification, PAN documentation, cuisine selection, and capacity declaration; chefs are paid monthly after a 32% platform commission. Distribution is dabbawala-inspired timed home delivery confined to the Bangalore metro area, with no proprietary logistics technology disclosed.

Revenue is generated through a marketplace commission model (32% per order) combined with recurring weekly meal plan subscriptions billed monthly to consumers. Customer concentration is spread across individual subscribers with no disclosed enterprise anchors. The company has no disclosed funding rounds, no institutional investors, and operates with 1-10 employees, positioning it firmly at an early-stage, founder-led phase. The founder and CEO, Anmol Kumar Gupta, frames the venture as both a consumer food offering and a financial-independence platform for Indian women cooks.

Name

ONEMEAL FOOD PRIVATE LIMITED

Legal name

ONEMEAL FOOD PRIVATE LIMITED

Website

https://onemeal.co.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

OneMeal Food Private Limited is a Bangalore-based subscription meal delivery marketplace that connects busy urban professionals with FSSAI-certified home chefs, predominantly Indian mothers, who prepare fresh regional-cuisine meals for timed home delivery in exchange for a 32% platform commission.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bangalore

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Commission from Chef Orders: OneMeal operates as an aggregator platform taking a 32% commission on every order placed through the platform. This commission covers the company's share of revenue while delivery charges, packaging fees, and taxes are paid by customers separately.
2. Meal Plan Subscriptions: Weekly subscription plans for breakfast, lunch, or dinner meals. Customers subscribe to meal plans and receive regular deliveries. Additional revenue is generated through extras like sweets, salads, and chutneys available for an additional cost.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

OneMeal is a subscription-based aggregator platform that connects customers with FSSAI-certified home chefs (primarily Indian mothers) who prepare fresh, home-cooked regional-cuisine meals. Customers subscribe to weekly meal plans for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, place orders one day in advance via WhatsApp, phone, or the order portal, and receive delivery in dedicated time slots. The OneChef sub-brand enables home cooks to register, list their cuisines, and sell homemade food, with OneMeal retaining a 32% commission per order.

Product overview

OneMeal operates as a meal delivery platform connecting customers with home chefs, primarily Indian mothers. The core product OneMeal enables subscription-based meal plans (breakfast, lunch, dinner) delivered to customers' doorsteps. The OneChef sub-brand provides home chefs a platform to sell homemade food, offering regional cuisines and homemade delicacies. Meal customization is available through the menu system, and ordering is facilitated via the dedicated order portal at order.onemeal.co.in. An app is currently in development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• OneChef: A sub-brand/platform for home chefs (predominantly Indian mothers) to sell homemade food. Chefs can register, upload documents (FSSAI, PAN), select cuisine preferences and meal plans, and receive monthly payments after 32% commission deduction.

Products and services

• OneMeal Meal Delivery Platform A subscription-based meal delivery platform for individual consumers in Bangalore that connects them with FSSAI-certified home chefs (predominantly Indian mothers) who prepare fresh, nutritious, home-cooked meals across multiple regional cuisines. Customers can subscribe to weekly meal plans for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, customize dishes, and receive home delivery in dedicated time slots.
• OneChef Chef Onboarding Program A program for home-based chefs (primarily Indian mothers) to register, upload FSSAI and PAN documents, select cuisine preferences and meal plans, and sell homemade food and regional delicacies (Rajasthani, Gujarati, Bihari, Bengali, South Indian, Ladoos, Cakes, Snacks) to customers via the OneMeal platform. Chefs receive monthly payments after a 32% commission deduction by OneMeal.

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• FreshMenu: Earlier Indian prepared-meal delivery startup that offered chef-prepared daily meals via app; a direct comparable in product, customer, and prepared-meal subscription model even though operations are now limited.
• The Bowl Company: Subscription bowl-meal delivery service in India offering daily meal subscriptions to office-going professionals; comparable subscription mechanic and urban professional customer base.
• Box8 (now Yu): Indian subscription meal delivery brand offering recurring lunch/dinner plans with all-Indian menus, very similar subscription-based DTC positioning to OneMeal but with its own cloud kitchens rather than home chefs.
• EatFit (by CultFit): Subscription healthy meal service targeting urban professionals with daily meal plans; directly comparable target customer and recurring-meal model, though backed by a larger fitness platform.

Broad incumbents

• iD Fresh Food: Established Indian fresh prepared-food brand (idli/dosa batter, ready-to-cook meals) with subscription-style home delivery; adjacent incumbent offering prepared fresh food directly to consumers via recurring deliveries.
• Zomato: India's leading restaurant discovery and food delivery platform with a growing subscription programme (Zomato Gold); competes for the same urban-professional meal budget and dwarfs OneMeal in scale and capital.
• Swiggy: India's largest food delivery platform with subscription products (Swiggy One) and a vast restaurant network; a broad incumbent that competes for the same urban meal occasions as OneMeal and could easily add a home-chef vertical.
• Rebel Foods (Faasos, Behrouz Biryani): Large Indian cloud-kitchen network operating multiple virtual restaurant brands with subscription/recurring-meal mechanics; broader incumbent with overlapping subscription-meal capabilities but a different supply model (centralised kitchens vs home chefs).

Emerging players

• DailyNinja: Indian subscription delivery startup for milk, bread, and groceries; an emerging player with a comparable subscription-DTC delivery playbook targeting urban households, though operating in an adjacent category.

Regional players

• Mumbai Dabbawala (Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Association): Iconic home-cooked lunch delivery network in Mumbai using a dabbawala-style timed-slot model that OneMeal explicitly references; analogous concept but historically non-digital and regionally concentrated.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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