specialty-foods
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Mama's Creations
The only publicly traded company built entirely around the deli case turned a grandmother's Sunday sauce into a $171 million bet on the least glamorous corner of the grocery store.
Goldbelly
Goldbelly is a New York-based online marketplace that ships iconic regional dishes and gourmet foods from more than 1,000 restaurants, bakeries, and food makers across all 50 U.S. states directly to customers' doors. Founded in 2013 by Joe Ariel, the company lets people order signature dishes - from Nashville hot chicken to New York cheesecake and deep-dish pizza - along with celebrity-chef meal kits, food-gift boxes, and subscriptions, packaging nostalgia and hard-to-get local specialties into nationwide delivery.
Joe Ariel
Joe Ariel is the founder and CEO of Goldbelly, the e-commerce marketplace that ships iconic regional dishes from more than 1,000 restaurants and food makers to doorsteps across the United States. A serial entrepreneur who previously led Eats.com and Delivery.com, Ariel built Goldbelly out of a simple frustration - the best food in America rarely leaves the town where it is made. In 2026 he was named Official Food Curator of America's 250th anniversary, leading the 'Taste of America250' program and a national storytelling project to define the canon of American cuisine.
Weee!
Weee! is North America's largest online ethnic grocer, delivering Asian and Hispanic groceries direct to homes across the United States. Founded in 2015 by Larry Liu as a WeChat group-buying experiment, it has grown into a vertically integrated platform with a $4.1B valuation and more than $1B in annualized revenue.