DeliRec
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
DeliRec was a Brazilian social platform for discovering food recipes, based in Rio de Janeiro. Founded in 2021, it let chefs insert and store their own recipes with detailed descriptions, photos and videos, and share their creations with anyone - aiming to help users have fun, learn new dishes and invent their own recipes.
02 / DeliRec FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
DeliRec could not sustain its business: it closed after roughly $3.4 to $3.6 million in seed funding raised in 2021-2022, and PitchBook marked it as Out of Business in April 2026. No company-specific explanation of the closure was published.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
DeliRec launched in Rio de Janeiro as a social recipe platform for chefs, raising a R$6.5 million (about $1.15 million) seed round in March 2021.
- Seed round
The company raised a second seed round of $2.41 million in May 2022, bringing total funding to about $3.5 million.
- Out of Business
PitchBook recorded DeliRec as Out of Business on April 28, 2026, ending the company's operations.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.
Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
In 2021, DeliRec was founded in Rio de Janeiro as a social platform where chefs could publish recipes with photos and videos.
- 02
The company raised a R$6.5 million seed round in March 2021, followed by a $2.41 million seed round in May 2022.
- 03
On April 28, 2026, PitchBook marked DeliRec as Out of Business, ending the company after about five years. No company-specific explanation of the closure was published. No reliable loss figure was disclosed, so no loss amount is recorded.