The San Francisco food-delivery startup Sprig will be shutting down 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-delivery service in which 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 Friday, a company representative confirmed. Its 200 employees will receive two months' pay, and the company will be having a career fair to help them find a new job. The Information first reported its pending close.

"No question, I'm sad that the Sprig model did not work out — but the food delivery space on the whole is growing," its CEO and cofounder Gagan Biyani wrote. "The demand for Sprig's convenient, high-quality food was always incredibly high, but the complexity of owning meal production through delivery at scale was a challenge."

Sprig is the latest food-delivery startup to close its doors after struggling to scale. Earlier in May, the New York-based Maple suddenly closed and sold its parts to Deliveroo. Last March, SpoonRocket, a California-based delivery service, shut down and sold its IP to a Brazil-based company. In its footsteps, startups like Din and Bento have also closed down. Other startups trying to revolutionize food delivery, like Munchery, are still struggling.

See the memo, obtained by Business Insider, below: