ChopYa · Coming soon
ChopYa is a marketplace for the food you grew up with — made by home cooks from your own community. Pantry staples shipped to your door anywhere in the US. Hot meals close to home. Cooks who are verified, trusted, and earning real income from what they already make best.
If you live far from the food of home, you know the routine: the 2-hour drive to the nearest African market, the WhatsApp messages to someone who knows someone who cooks, the suitcase full of spices after every trip back. The food exists. The cooks exist. What's missing is the bridge — and that's what ChopYa is.
Shelf-stable staples and snacks — chin chin, spice blends, dried egusi and ogbono, garri, baked goods — made by verified home producers and shipped anywhere in the US. The market you wish was down the street, delivered to your door.
Home-cooked meals for pickup or delivery from cooks in your city — real home kitchens, real recipes, the taste that restaurants never quite get right. Launching one metro at a time, starting where the community is.
Surplus home-cooked food and groceries shared at $0 with neighbors, students, and community and faith organizations. Same care, same dignity, no fees — community value, not charity.
Cooks set their prices and keep a real margin. ChopYa handles payments, shipping labels, delivery, and the trust work — so the people who feed their communities can be paid properly for it.
Two minutes, four questions. Your answers directly shape what we launch first and where.
Every answer shapes where and what we launch first.
The US is home to more than 46 million foreign-born people — and the market for the food they grew up with runs today on long drives, suitcase imports, and informal WhatsApp commerce. No platform owns it.
ChopYa is building the infrastructure: a two-sided marketplace with verified home-cook supply, national pantry shipping, local hot-meal delivery, and a community free-food lane. If you invest in marketplaces, food, or community infrastructure, we'd love to talk.
We're early, small, and building fast. If cultural food, marketplaces, or community infrastructure is the problem you want to work on, tell us who you are.
Be first in line when ChopYa opens in your city. We'll only email you about launch.
We'll be in touch when ChopYa opens near you. Tell one person who misses the food of home — that's how this grows.
Tell us who you are and we'll reply personally.
A few lines about you and what you'd want to work on.
We read everything and reply personally.