2. Problem: millennials don’t know how to cook
1 MarketWatch: of those aged 18-34, only half knew how to cook
Current food options are expensive, unhealthy, impractical
DeliveryMeal Kits Apps & Social
pricey,
must plan ahead
Beginner
cooking
market is
underserved
expensive,
unhealthy
advanced recipes,
basic instructions
3. Solution: cooking app for beginners
Tell Us
What You Have
We’ll Show You
What You Can Make
Learn How With
Step-By-Step Videos
4. Targeted Ads
Ingredient-based platform provides rich
dataset to build profiles on users
We act as a lead-gen, providing partners
with high-value customers
Grocery Delivery
Monetize: multiple proven revenue streams
Sponsored Content
Develop and feature recipes using advertising
partners’ products
5. Global Grocery
Delivery Market2
$48 billion
1 AdAge, 2 Kantar Worldpanel, 3 Morgan Stanley, 4 Nielsen
Market: large and growing fast
$30 billion
Global Food
Industry Ad
Spending1
• Traditional food brands
struggling to reach millennials
• $150 billion by 2025
• We offer unique platform
and audience for advertisers
• Our data enables unrivaled
customer segregation
• Only 2% of total US grocery
market & 6% of Europe3
• Millennials biggest share
of market4
7. Unfair Advantage
Recipe Title
& Description
Ingredients
Spices & Seasonings
Clickable Steps with
Educational Content
Unfair Advantage: personalized “smart recipes”
• Optimize each component of a recipe
• Track user progress & update recipes with new content
• Foundation for algorithmically-generated recipes
Optimizable Recipe Components
8. Growth: data-driven content marketing
Food
Media
recipes, videos,
blogs, etc.
Social
Channels
Content
App
Users
User Data
Low customer acquisition cost and in-app viral mechanism
Virtuous Cycle for Growth & Retention
9. Long-Term: a profitable food-based ecosystem
Capture customers at start of cooking career for high LTV
Tech
Develop suite of apps for specific dietary and lifestyle needs
(vegan, gluten-free, kid-friendly, weight-loss, gourmet, etc)
Media
Build food-focused lifestyle brand to engage our users
everywhere they are
E-Commerce
Leverage user data and brand authority to sell cookware,
groceries, and kitchen tools
10. Mike Lazarus, CEO
Developer, Designer, Data Analyst
Self-Taught Chef
Stanford ‘12
Dane Bratz, CTO
Full-Stack Engineer + Architect
Fitness Guru
Stanford ‘13
Team
We’ve been good friends since college, sharing a passion for the
outdoors and healthy, simple living. We built Skillit while living in the
Rockies, skiing in the day and coding/cooking at night.
Team: passion meets purpose
We practice what we preach: cook 3 meals daily for under $10
11. Status
• Available on iOS & Android app stores
• Positive feedback from diverse set of users
• Implementing product improvements before focusing
on user growth
Fundraising: $250,000 for 18 months runway
Hire Content
& Mktg Team
Viral
Growth
Monetize
Platform
12. “I was clueless in the kitchen until I found Skillit.
Now, I cook everyday.”
-Libby B, Tulsa OK
“Skillit shows me awesome, easy recipes based on
what I have.”
-Garrett D, SF CA
“Skillit is fun and I learn something new every
time I cook.”
-Tom D, D.C.
Testimonials: “love it,” “so cool,” “need this”