Food & hospitality

garten

Website
Founded 2014Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

We're a Top YCombinator S16 and YCG F19 company empowering people to live healthy and blissful lives. We create healthy and happy employees through nutrition and wellness services. We have built a sophisticated tech stack utilizing AI and IoT to enable a flexible supply chain, being completely asset lite, and full wellbeing analytics. We work with some of world’s top companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Kaiser, Stanford, Stripe, Nike, Lyft, and many more.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Product & workflow

It allows your team to stay fueled all day with a beautifully stocked and custom-designed wellbeing program.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-16

Founders & team

Previously ohmygreen, Oh My Green

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Michael Heinrich

Founder/CEO

Michael is building the largest AI Layer 1 to make AI a public good. Prev. founder & CEO of garten, a Ycombinator Top (S16, YCG F19) and Stanford StartX company. Michael started in technical product management and software engineering at SAP and Microsoft, then worked at Bain and Bridgwater Associates before becoming an entrepreneur. Educated at Stanford (Threshold Venture Fellow, OnTrack Innovation Scholar), Harvard, UC Berkeley (summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Americorps Bonner Leader).

LinkedIn X
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
201team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2014 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Burlingame, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The source reports an inactive or acquired company; current product identity needs review.

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