[1][2][3][4] Based out of Palo Alto, California,[5] it was founded by Cherian Thomas,[6] Chris Luscher, Arun Prabhakar[7] and Dan Hauk.

[7] Cucumbertown was co-founded by Ex-Zynga employee Cherian Thomas, Chris Luscher, a partner at Web development firm Information Architects, Arun Prabhakar, a software engineer, and Dan Hauk, Tumblr theme designer.

Thomas then brought on board Arun Prabhakar, his junior at Model Engineering College, and Dan Hauk, a leading American designer.

In 2012, Cucumbertown was angel funded to the extent of $300,000[15] by investors such as Naval Ravikant of AngelList, Paul Singh of 500 Startups,[citation needed] Farmville co-creator Sizhao Zao Yang,[11] founder of MightyText Maneesh Arora, early Google product guy Richard Chen and Sonique Player co-creator Tabreez Varjee.

In June 2015, it was announced that Cucumbertown, world's only niche food blogging platform, had been acquired by Japanese Recipe network, Cookpad in an undisclosed deal.