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Yu Foodlabs is a consumer food brand that makes preservative-free meal bowls.
Basic Information
Founded by Bharat Bhalla and Varun Kapur in 2020, Yu Foodlabs has come out with a range of instant meal bowls that contain zero preservatives, additives, artificial flavourings or colours. Its meals retain their original taste and aroma while having a non-refrigerated shelf life of 12 months. These meal bowls are priced in the range of Rs 75-100. Yu has introduced six SKUs across two categories — wholesome pasta bowls and wholegrain oat bowls. It plans to introduce dessert bowls, veg/non-veg Asian noodle bowls and superfood breakfast bowls. Yu’s products are available at 100 plus retail outlets across Delhi NCR besides online marketplaces. It is adopting an omnichannel sales strategy and in due course will be present in offline and online stores pan-India. The brand aims to establish an offline presence in Mumbai MMR, East/ North East by January 2022 followed by all other metro cities in 9-12 months.
Legal Name
:
Ikayu Foodlabs Pvt Ltd
Headquarters
:
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Founding Date
:
2020
No. of Employees
:
21 to 40
Core Team
:
1.  
Bharat Bhalla
Founder and Executive Director
2.  
Varun Kapur
Founder and Executive Director
Funding

Total Funding

$1.0M

Investors
:
1.  
Varun Vakil
2.  
Manish Choksi
Detail Round Breakdown
Round 1

$1M

Series Name
:
SEED
Date
:
20th Oct 2021
Investors
:
1.  
Manish Choksi
2.  
Varun Vakil
3.  
Nikhil Srivastava
4.  
Vishal Sampat

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