Tagged: food delivery

November 16, 2021 @ 4:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Southeast Asian “super-app” Grab is working to restore service today, the company said. Customers across Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia have reported trouble using the super-app, with some voicing their frustrations on social media. “We experienced a service disruption this morning that impacted a number… Read More

June 3, 2021 @ 9:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Zoom Food Group, a UK-based food delivery service, is set to close its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs with nearly £600,000 raised. The funding round, which originally sought to secure £200,000, has attracted over 300 Seedrs investors. Founded in 2017, Zoom describes itself as a bootstrapped, disruptive… Read More

November 3, 2019 @ 7:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payment process platform Square announced on Friday it has completed the sale of food delivery service, Caviar, to DoorDash. Square reported that Caviar was sold to DoorDash on October 31st for $410 million in a mix of cash and DoorDash stock. “Caviar will be included in… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 2:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  vanilla bean, claiming the title as “the world’s first packaging-free restaurant delivery service,” offers CO2-free, fair, and 100% vegan packaging. The Regensberg, Germany based company aims to help solve the problem of packaging waste: almost 50% of the plastic waste produced worldwide comes from packaging…. Read More

July 17, 2018 @ 5:26 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Gardeners know that homegrown produce rarely look as perfect as what’s sold at Fairway, Citarella or even Whole Foods. Past successful food delivery crowdfunding campaigns like Foodist, Ooooby Grit Grocery have focused on delivering exceptional local, artisan foods… but what to do about the odd-shaped… Read More

November 30, 2017 @ 6:40 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Currently operating in Granada, Sevilla, Córdoba, Jaén, Huelva, Badajoz, Alicante and Mérida, Mission Box is looking to expand into twenty additional cities by early 2018. The Spanish startup has linked with Crowdcube Spain to make this expansion possible, aiming to secure 230,000€. To date, numbers… Read More

July 6, 2016 @ 12:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, London-based Pronto announced it formed a partnership with tech startup Starship Technologies to use self-driving robots for food deliveries. The restaurant provides healthy meals delivered hot with a 25-minute free delivery. Pronto took to Seedrs in May and secured £838,620 to expand its delivery area… Read More

April 27, 2016 @ 2:51 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Companisto has provided a platform for several successful German food startups in the recent past, including MyCouchBox, Naturbursche and Foodist, and it looks as if eatclever will be joining their ranks if the first day of its campaign is an indicator.  In the hours since… Read More

September 10, 2015 @ 9:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday morning, Ooooby, and their crowd, have shown equity crowdfunding can be about more than financial returns when the social enterprise hit their minimum target of $200,000. Last month, the New Zealand-based local food delivery service took to equity crowdfunding platform, PledgeMe, to raise $800,000 for expansion. Founder… Read More

September 3, 2015 @ 2:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly a year after its first campaign on Crowdcube garnished nearly £130,000, Northampton-based health snack brand Earlybird announced that it is returning to the UK equity crowdfunding platform to raise £300,000 for more expansion of its products. EarlyBird, which was founded by entrepreneurs Oliver Pugh and Jamie Trinder. is a… Read More

September 1, 2015 @ 12:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

It’s meal time, a time when Zomato’s site is likely swarmed with hits.  If you are not yet familiar with Zomato, click here to see if the platform services your city. From Vancouver to Auckland, Zomato is used by millions of hungry people every day to decide… Read More

June 10, 2015 @ 12:21 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Hamburg-based delicacy box start-up Foodist, which was co-founded in 2012 by Alexander Djordjevic and Ole Schaumberg, has experienced strong growth over the last two years and has increased the number of monthly subscribers from 350 to as many as 14,000. As Foodist wants to keep… Read More