March 18th, 2013

Samwer Brothers Team Up With Delivery Hero ex-CEO In New, $194M Venture Fund

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Make way for one more big venture fund coming out of Europe, this one with some colorful backers. Oliver and Marc Samwer — founders of the Rocket Internet startup incubator among other things — have teamed up with Fabian Siegel, one of the people behind online food delivery company Delivery Hero, to launch Global Founders Capital, a new €150 million ($194 million) fund aimed at any and all… → Read More

February 5th, 2013

FoodPanda, Rocket Internet’s Answer To GrubHub And Delivery Hero, Now Delivering Food In 23 Countries And Raising Money

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FoodPanda, a Rocket Internet-backed online platform for aggregating and delivering food from take-out restaurants, is today announcing that it has expanded to 12 more emerging markets, taking the total number of countries that it covers to 23. The company is also in the process of raising money to help fuel the growth, essential to compete against the likes of GrubHub in the U.S., or Just-Eat or → Read More

September 27th, 2012

European Take-Out Wars Continue: Delivery Club Raises $4 Million From Addventure

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The European take-out wars continue to heat up. This time it’s the turn of Russia’s Delivery Club to receive an injection of cash, raising a $4 million second round of funding from existing investor, Addventure. The new capital will be used by the online food ordering service to “boost regional and global expansion”, enabling it to enter additional cites in Russia and to expand into other… → Read More

August 27th, 2012

Fast Food? Delivery Hero Aims To Deliver [TCTV]

Delivery Hero, which competes with JustEat and just raised a $50 million Series D round, is now firmly in the middle of the ‘War of the Take-outs’ to bring your appetite for fast food and online ordering together.

With a network of 22,000 restaurants and operating in 11 countries it is going head-to-head with Just-Eat which operates in 13 countries.

We caught up with CEO Fabian Siegel in… → Read More

August 27th, 2012

Take-Out Wars Heat Up: Delivery Hero Raises Further $50M To Race Just-Eat To Global Domination

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Delivery Hero, the online take-out ordering service founded by startup factory Team Europe, has raised a hefty $50 million Series D led by Kite Ventures, a previous backer of the company, while Kreos Capital also joins this latest round.

This brings Delivery Hero’s total funding to approximately $100m and comes hot on the heels of its biggest rival, Just-Eat, raising an additional $64 million→ Read More