April 3rd, 2013

Food Delivery Service EAT Club Scores $5 Million Series A From August Capital, First Round, Great Oaks & Others

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EAT Club, a Palo Alto-based food delivery service launched in fall 2010, has raised $5 million in Series A funding, in a round led by August Capital. Also participating in the round were First Round Capital, Siemer Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Launch Capital, Tekton Ventures, Mark Vadon (Zulily and Blue Nile co-founder) and other angel investors. → Read More

March 28th, 2013

Game On, Google: eBay Now Same-Day Delivery Service Expands To Chicago And Dallas

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EBay is in the middle of its Analyst Day, and just a little while ago it announced plans for some significant expansions for eBay Now, its same-day delivery service, with Chicago and Dallas deliveries coming this summer, and integration of the service into its “core experience” as it gears up for competition with Amazon and now Google. → Read More

November 13th, 2012

With GrubHub’s New Driver-Tracking Feature DeliveryHub, GrubHub Now Alerts Diners About Order Status, Shows Deliveries On A Map

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Chicago-based GrubHub, a startup that lets you order food for delivery or take out online or on mobile, is launching a new “Track Your Grub” set of features as a part of its DeliveryHub driver tracking and order assignment system. DeliveryHub quietly rolled out  back in October, and today over 100 restaurants in New York, Chicago, Boston, D.C., Philly and San Francisco, are now displaying the… → Read More

November 8th, 2012

Meals Marketplace Munchery Raises $4 Million For Expansion, Now Delivering High-Quality Meals To All Of Bay Area, L.A. In 2013

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Munchery, the Bay Area startup that lets customers order healthy, high-quality meals from professional chefs, said it raised $3.3 million of an ongoing $4 million in Series A funding in a round led by E.Ventures. Also participating were angel investors (and die-hard users), Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress; Randi Zuckerberg; and El Dorado Ventures’ Tom Peterson. To date, Munchery has raised… → Read More

October 2nd, 2012

Just Eat Buys Spanish Online Food Ordering/Delivery Rival SinDelantal For A Few Million Euros

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Just Eat, the multinational online food ordering and delivery company that raised $64 million in April from Vitruvian Partners, Index Ventures, Greylock, and Redpoint, is today announcing its first acquisition out of that cash injection: it is buying SinDelantal, its rival in Spain, to help give a quick boost to that country’s operations and help Just Eat continue its international growth to do… → Read More

January 30th, 2008

Domino's pursues type-A, control freak demographic

Want to know what in the hell’s taking the pizza guy so long? Order from Domino’s from now on. You can use the new Pizza Tracker feature to keep an eye on your pizza’s location, accurate to within 40 seconds (which in pizza time is an eternity). You’ll also be privy to your driver’s first name and you’ll be able to rate that driver. But why do drivers need… → Read More