🦄 Castiron: Enabling online restaurants

Castiron is an e-commerce service that provides websites to independent food sellers such as cooks and bakers. In addition to landing pages, it offers features such as inventory management, automated marketing, and more.
🦄 Unicorner Startup of the Week: Castiron
 
 ✍️ Notes From The Editors  
We’re no strangers to the intersection between food and technology (our cover of Shef last year highlighted the delivery of home-cooked meals). Castiron is taking web stores and optimizing them for a smaller audience—specifically, independent cooks looking to reach their hungry customers online. It follows a larger (and historically successful) trend of companies taking an idea and specializing it to a niche audience.
 
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Enabling online restaurants
 
 
Castiron is an e-commerce service that provides websites to independent food sellers such as cooks and bakers. In addition to landing pages, it offers features such as inventory management, automated marketing, and more.
 
 
🔗 Check them out: castiron.me
 
 
💰 Business Model
Castiron is free for sellers. The company makes money by charging customers a 10% convenience fee and a 2.9% + $0.30 Stripe payment processing fee.
 
📈 Traction and Fundraising
  • Raised $6 million seed from Bowery Capital, Foundry Group, and High Alpha
  • Has “several hundred users,” according to TechCrunch
 
👫 Founder(s)
  • Mark Josephson, CEO: Previously CEO @ Bitly, SVP Revenue & Marketing @ AOL, SVP Patch Labs @ Patch.com (Division of AOL), CEO @ Outside.in (Sold to AOL), President & CMO @ Seevast, Psychology @ Skidmore College
 
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🔮 Our Analysis
If the Great Resignation is having an effect on the Food and Beverage Industry, there is a growing market Castiron is ready to serve. Because of its business model, Castiron is only successful when its users, or “food artisans,” are successful. This means the company is able to provide every feature for free to all its sellers, as more sales translate to more revenue. This symbiotic relationship between Castiron and its artisans, as well as features like unlimited listings, accepting a variety of payment methods (credit cards, Google Pay, and Apple Pay), coupon creation, and customizations (like toppings or fillings), are just a few of the aspects that present the platform as a robust solution and distinguish it from other e-commerce options like Shopify. Castiron also has a community called The Kitchen, meant to help food artisans connect with one another and learn from each other. For customers looking to buy foods, Castiron is a platform for discovering and enjoying their favorite independent food artisan’s creations. With all this in mind, we hope success is on Castiron’s menu.
 
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Elon Musk has been in the spotlight recently for a number of reasons, mainly circling around Twitter drama. But in other news, The Boring Company recently announced its $675 million Series C, bringing its valuation to over $5 billion. Some of the company’s projects include new tunnels in its existing Loop transportation system, as well as advancements to Prufrock, its proprietary tunnel boring machine.
 
 
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