
Fast-casual salad chain sweetgreen has acquired meal-delivery startup Galley for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock. Both of the D.C.-homegrown companies will merge in sweetgreen’s first-ever acquisition.
Sweetgreen was founded in D.C. in 2007 before moving its headquarters to California. The company has more than 90 locations throughout the U.S., Forbes reported last year at a time when Cofounder Jonathan Nemanexpressed that sweetgreen wanted to go beyond a food company and become a platform this year.
“We’re both companies with D.C. roots, and we’re like-minded in our mission and in our commitment to our customers to better understand them and meet them wherever they are,” Neman said in a news release.
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