On-demand food delivery startup Munchery is ceasing operations effective immediately, the startup announced in an e-mail to customers on Monday (21st January 2019). Founded in 2010, the San Francisco-based business had raised a total of $125 million […]
Meal-kit companies are continuing to get funding from big food brands, although Blue Apron‘s initial public offering yielded lackluster performance. Indeed, Big Food players haven’t stopped from diving into the $4.6 billion market of food-delivery services. […]
HelloFresh, the Berlin-based company that delivers meal kits and recipes to subscribers, has reportedly raised another $88 million as the company continues its march toward a possible public offering. HelloFresh offers meal-kits including ingredients sourced […]
Munchery has opened a pop-up shop in San Francisco as it seeks to differentiate itself in the crowded world of food-delivery startups. The pop-up will sell meals that aren’t otherwise available through the company’s service, […]
Yet more regional consolidation is underway among the giants of take-out and delivery startups in Europe as they gear up to compete more aggressively against newer entrants like Deliveroo and Uber Eats. Today, Berlin-based Delivery Hero announced that […]
Delivery Hero Holding GmbH is acquiring Foodpanda, bringing together two top food delivery startups based in Germany. Rocket Internet SE, a backer of both companies, said the combined business will process more than 20 million […]
Square’s latest acquisition proves the company’s food delivery business isn’t going anywhere. The mobile payment company has acquired Main Line Delivery, an 8-year-old startup that delivers food to the Main Line region of Philadelphia. Square’s […]
Drones will soon be delivering burritos on the campus of Virginia Tech. The experimental service, to begin this month and last just a few weeks, will be conducted by Alphabet’s (GOOG, GOOGL) Project Wing and […]
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will start delivering meals from restaurants direct to customers in some parts of the city, the newest entrant to an increasingly competitive market which includes Just East, UberEats and Deliveroo. The “Amazon Restaurants” […]
Customers of Postmates and other delivery startups have complained of opaque and misleading pricing practices, writes Alison Griswold. Postmates and its competitors are operating as middlemen in industries with slim margins, making it tough to […]
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