Mike Dee is a mobile developer, entrepreneur, and business executive. He is the co-founder and CTO of Foodworks , a company that provides a shared workspace, community, and services for chefs and food entrepreneurs.

Dee grew up in Washington, D.C. After graduating from St. Albans School, he attended Georgetown University. He eventually graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Finance. ^[7]

After graduating from university in 2013, Dee co-founded Grazer Inc., a peer-to-peer marketplace that allows users to display and tap into unique specialty dishes within their neighborhood. ^[5]

While working on Grazer, he was an iOS developer for Bubble, a content sharing and discovery platform that allows people to share 9-second teasers of streaming video. ^[9]

In 2015, Dee co-founded Foodworks (previously known as Homemade).

He, along with his co-founder Nick Devane, created a co-working space for chefs and food entrepreneurs to start their own food business from scratch and/or scale their companies. ^[13] Forbes called their company "a "WeWork" for cooks." ^[13]

As of the end of 2017, Foodworks has helped start more than 195 companies, with the majority of them being owned by women or minorities.

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In late 2017, Dee and Devane were listed in Forbes 30 Under 30's 'Big Money' and 'Food & Drink' lists, respectively. ^{[11] [4]}They were recognized for raising $16 million in funding for Foodworks, as well as expanding to four different locations in the Northeast. ^[11]