San Francisco food delivery startup, Sprig, is shutting down

Melia RobinsonSan Francisco food delivery startup, Sprig, will be shutting down on Friday, Business Insider has learned.

The company had raised over $56 million from Silicon Valley's top investors for its new spin on food delivery.

Sprig's business was a high-end meal service, where customers could get anything from a shredded raw zucchini bowl with shrimp and basil-walnut pesto to the ever-popular lemon-Parmesan kale and quinoa salad.

It will stop operating on Friday, confirmed a spokesperson. Its 200 employees will receive two months pay and the company will be having a job fair to help them find a new job. The Information first reported its pending close.

See the memo, obtained by Business Insider, below:

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