Square has acquired Entrees On-Trays, a 32-year-old restaurant delivery platform. The plan is to expand the footprint of its on-demand food delivery service, Caviar, in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area. There were a few factors Square took into …
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Robomart is the latest startup to try and unseat the local convenience store
The startup assault on the humble neighborhood store continues to intensify.
First came Bodega, the terribly named, and mostly misguided startup with its mission to bring the non-perishable necessities available at the corner store to the masses and “disrupt” the corner store.
Now there’s Robomart, which wants to bring the groceries, baked goods and prepared foods of the… Read More
Malaysia’s Dahmakan chows down $2.6M for its end-to-end food delivery service
Dahmakan, a food delivery startup from Malaysia that graduated Y Combinator last year, has raised $2.6 million as it begins to explore the potential to expand its business across Southeast Asia. The startup distinguishes itself from the likes of FoodPanda and Deliveroo with an “end-to-end” approach to food, that’s to say that it cooks all dishes itself and dispatches them… Read More
Malaysia’s Dahmakan chows down $2.6M for its end-to-end food delivery service
Dahmakan, a food delivery startup from Malaysia that graduated Y Combinator last year, has raised $2.6 million as it begins to explore the potential to expand its business across Southeast Asia. The startup distinguishes itself from the likes of FoodPanda and Deliveroo with an “end-to-end” approach to food, that’s to say that it cooks all dishes itself and dispatches them… Read More
Uber rival Ola buys Foodpanda India to get into food deliveries
Ola, the Uber rival in India, is entering the food delivery space after it announced a deal to acquire Foodpanda’s India business from its parent company DeliveryHero. The deal will see Ola scoop up the Foodpanda India business with DeliveryHero taking an undisclosed amount of Ola stock in exchange. Undisclosed all-stock deals are usually indicative of a willingness to sell, and we… Read More
UberEats is going to let you order food from ‘virtual restaurants’ that don’t exist IRL
Craving something, but UberEats doesn’t list it in your vicinity? The company has launched a novel way to tackle that issue.
Uber will soon serve up dishes from “virtual restaurants,” it announced Thursday.
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Groupon adds ad exec Steve Krenzer as new COO, sold assets to Grubhub for $20M
Groupon, the local deals platform, reported Q3 earnings today that provided more details on how it is restructuring its business; and it also took the moment to announce that it has finally appointed a new COO, a role that has been vacant for the…
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