Kitchensurfing

aid: kitchensurfing
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kitchensurfing.png
name: Kitchensurfing
description: Kitchensurfing was a New York City marketplace that booked professional chefs to shop for, cook, and serve meals
  in customers' own kitchens, founded in 2012 and backed by roughly $20M from Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tiger
  Global. It began as an advance-booking platform for private dinner parties and pivoted in 2015 to a flat-rate on-demand
  model in which a chef arrived and cooked dinner within a fixed window. Neither model produced sustainable demand against
  better-capitalized meal-kit and delivery competitors, and the company discontinued service and shut down on April 15, 2016.
  It never published a public developer API, SDK, or developer portal. Its GitHub organization survives with eleven public
  repositories - open-source Ruby/Rails forks and internal hackathon projects, last active in 2016 - but contains no client
  library or API definition. The kitchensurfing.com domain was subsequently re-registered by an unrelated cooking-products
  affiliate publisher and no longer represents this company.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kitchensurfing/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- union-square-ventures
- spark-capital
- tiger-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api
x-status: defunct
x-defunct-date: '2016-04-15'
x-founded: '2012'
x-headquarters: New York, NY, United States
x-domain-status: reregistered-unrelated
x-enrichment-note: Enriched 2026-07-19. Company confirmed defunct since 2016-04-15; no API, SDK, developer portal, or event
  surface was ever published. Live kitchensurfing.com is an unrelated affiliate content site, so no artifacts (packages, well-known,
  mcp, llms, openapi, security) were generated - absence is the correct, verified result. Do not re-run the artifact pipeline
  on this slug.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Food and Beverage
- Marketplace
- On-Demand
- Hospitality
- Local Services
- Consumer
- Venture Backed
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Food and Beverage
- Marketplace
- On Demand
- Hospitality
- Local Services
- Consumer
- Venture Backed
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  name: kitchensurfing.com - domain re-registered by an unrelated cooking-products publisher, NOT the original company
  url: https://www.kitchensurfing.com/
- type: Archive
  name: Kitchensurfing original site, Internet Archive snapshot (2016-04-01)
  url: http://web.archive.org/web/20160401035206/https://www.kitchensurfing.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  name: Kitchensurfing on GitHub - 11 public repos, last active 2016, forks and internal projects, no SDK or API definition
  url: https://github.com/kitchensurfing
- type: News
  name: 'Recode: On-demand chef service Kitchensurfing shuts down (2016-04-15)'
  url: https://www.recode.net/2016/4/15/11586178/on-demand-chef-service-kitchensurfing-shuts-down
- type: News
  name: 'Fast Company: After raising $20M, Kitchensurfing closes'
  url: https://www.fastcompany.com/4003566/after-raising-20m-kitchensurfing-closes-2
- type: Profile
  name: Kitchensurfing company profile on CB Insights
  url: https://www.cbinsights.com/company/kitchensurfing
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence