GV and Bertelsmann-backed connected kitchen appliance developer Orange Chef, which shut down last month, has been bought by Yummly.

Technology conglomerate Alphabet and media company Bertelsmann have exited Orange Chef, a US-based provider of internet-connected kitchen tools, through an acquisition by food discovery platform Yummly on Friday.

Orange Chef was founded in 2011 and sold connected kitchen utensils such as the Prep Pad, a food scale that connected to an iPad app to offer consumers nutritional information about their food.

The company raised $3m in a seed round that closed in February 2014. Alphabet subsidiary GV, then called…