Team
The people behind Peppermint.
A small, hands-on team building the food-data platform for health and wellness.
Lucas Czekaj
Founder & CEO
Lucas is building Peppermint to make nutrition effortless — turning real-world food data into actionable signals for healthier and longer lives.
Before Peppermint, he architected and led Fresh Funds at Instacart — the backbone of Instacart Health — supporting programs with Kaiser Permanente and Michelle Obama's Partnership for a Healthier America. He is a named inventor on 8 patents for AI-driven recommendations and has shipped work across checkout, order feedback, notifications, and health.
With nearly twenty years in product and platform roles, Lucas brings fast, grounded judgment at the intersection of engineering and product, operating as a hands-on CTO-type founder.