. Karma Kitchen, a London-based startup, is a provider of shared and private kitchen spaces used for businesses to grow and scale. For establishments that don’t have full-service restaurants, a dark kitchen can provide a way to start serving food, building a guest base and earning money to put toward future expansion (be that a restaurant space, a food truck, or something else) with lower startup costs and less overhead. he co-founders of 10-minute grocery delivery app Gorillas have backed a new start-up building “dark kitchens” around London. Stockholm’s dark kitchen startup Curb has raised €20 million in a funding round led by Point72 Ventures.