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Licious

Founded by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, Licious is a consumer food company, focussed at delighting the world with an unmatched range of meat & seafood products. Present in raw & fresh meat and seafood, marinades and ready-to-eat categories, Licious is set to disrupt every food category that needs a meaty intervention! The company is built with a vision to emerge as India’s most loved meat food brand by offering premium quality products. In a highly underserved market, which is estimated at $40 billion today, Licious as a category-first brand backed by technology, has been able to solve the prevailing customer pain points of quality, hygiene, freshness and convenience in a sustainable manner. Built on the farm to fork business model, Licious owns the entire back-end supply chain powered by stringent cold chain control to maintain the quality and freshness of each product from the time of procurement, processing, storage to the time it reaches the end consumer. In just 5 years Licious has witnessed a 300% growth and has served over three million packs of world class meat products to consumers across Bangalore, Hyderabad, NCR, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Coimbatore, Jaipur, Kochi, Vizag, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Pondicherry & Kolkata. Licious serves over 1mn orders every-month with over 90% repeat consumption across markets. As a category leader and the largest direct to consumer fresh meat & seafood brand, Licious has been able to build differentiation across all dimensions including technology, data science, supply chain, product quality, consumer engagement and category understanding. With seamless supply chain capabilities which are cold chain powered and scientifically maintaining global standard of quality and freshness of each product, Licious is ahead of the curve and holds a great distinction to drive the meat and seafood category which has remained highly unorganized. For more details, please visit https://www.licious.in/

http://www.licious.in
1,001-5,000 employees

Growth Trajectory

Licious is expanding its product offerings to include ready-to-cook items and exotic meats, signaling a focus on product diversification and innovation. The company's presence in multiple cities across India indicates ongoing geographic expansion and market penetration. Investing in maintaining its cold chain infrastructure and enhancing its mobile app will support future growth.

Technical Challenges

Ensuring consistent temperature control during storage and delivery to maintain freshness.
Optimizing delivery routes and logistics to reduce delivery times and costs.
Maintaining the security of applications and customer data.

Tech Stack

Team Size

Key Risks

Maintaining freshness and quality control across a dispersed geographic area poses a significant logistical challenge.
Competition from traditional meat vendors and other online delivery services could impact market share.
Regulatory compliance with food safety and hygiene standards is critical and requires ongoing attention.

Opportunities

Further expansion to new cities and regions can significantly increase market reach.
Developing more ready-to-cook products and unique flavor combinations can attract a wider customer base.
Improving the mobile app and website user experience can enhance customer engagement and loyalty.
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