Nick Taranto is the Co-Founder of Plated, an American ingredient-and-recipe meal kit service that delivers meals in the form of weekly boxes that contain ingredients and also include recipes to be cooked by hand by the customer using the pre-ordered ingredients. Founded by Harvard Business School classmates Nick Taranto and Josh Hix in 2012, the company became well-known through its participation in Techstars in 2013, Shark Tank in 2014 and Beyond the Tank in 2015. The company accepted several rounds of venture capital investments and remained private until it was acquired by Albertsons in September 2017.
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