Usher And Jay-Z Take A Bite Out Of Hungry’s $8 Million Series A

Usher—photographed with his mother, Jonetta Patton, and Hungry cofounder Eman Pahlevani—has joined Jay-Z and Tom Colicchio as an investor in Hungry as part of a new $8 million funding round.

When Jonetta Patton opened J’s Kitchen Culinary Incubator, a place for Atlanta chefs to hone their craft and share resources, the hardest ingredient to find was customers. So when she got a call from Nina Mahmoudpour, director of operations at Hungry—a startup connecting chefs with companies looking for c...