Meaty Milestones 2017

Finest start-up honour

FSSC 22000 Certification

Our obsession for quality culminated in bagging us the world's most prestigious food safety certification for our processing centre: FSSC 22000 certification.

With the business going strong, we continued to make headlines. Our founders got featured in the renowned ‘Fortune 40 under 40’ list as ‘Rising Entrepreneurs’.

An Ivy league adventure

When Harvard called us we just couldn’t say no, why would we?! We took the first flight and presented our business model in front of global business giants at the world’s most prestigious university.

Just when we were settling into our new office, Asia's largest startup awards- ‘Super startup’, awarded Licious ‘the badge of honour’ to recognise excellence in the Asian startup world.

3rd July

One-of-a-kind meat spread

Expansion in different cities

After we received massive love from Bengalureans, we wanted to spread the joy to many more Indians. We expanded our operations to serve foodies across India - Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Chennai. 5 major cities in a matter of 2 years!

We launched India’s first meat spread with roaring success. From 6 year olds to 60 year olds, everyone loved it.

Extending a hand during dark times

This one award is our proudest (and best!) one yet. We received ‘The most empathetic brand during pandemic’ award by Redseer for standing by our meat suppliers.

A Unicorn is born

We surfed the waves of success in 2021 by becoming the first ever D2C unicorn with 52 million fresh funding. We also got certified as ‘Great place to work’ which is the most enviable and definitive award that all employers strive for.

Award, Award, Awards!

We won the ‘Outstanding Performance in Food Safety Award’, ‘Rising Star - Meat & Poultry award’ and the ‘Frost & Sullivan Innovation Award’, all in the same year.

Taking care of our own

We deployed our ESOP program with everyday vesting and anytime liquidation plan, across functions from processing centre staff to delivery boys and corporate employees.

SA 8000 certification 2021

We are big on quality, so you can imagine how delighted we were when we were one among the 8 countries to scoop up the SA 8000 certification. We have not one but TWO internationally accepted proofs of how serious we are about quality.

A brand new office

We moved into a space that truly represents us and where we can be our mad, crazy and awesome selves. A haven of ideas, work and of course food for the Lician tribe.

Celebrating 1 million smiles

After multiple chest bumps and too many high-fives to count, we recorded 1 million unique customers served. It also gave us an excuse to have a massive office party that we TOTALLY needed btw.

1st August

2021

Integration of sustainable development practices

Licious has adopted 100% traceable and sustainable sourcing practices, creating quality benchmarks for the industry. Licious is also the first company in the segment to take a pledge toward achieving complete ESG compliance.

India is a land of complexities. The sheer number of people in the country means that there are ways of life that people who have lived their entire lives here are also not familiar with.

Like everything about India, our meat eating culture is also complex, layered and completely unique when compared to the rest of the world. Some of the most prominent types of “meat” consumers in India are...