• February 6th, 2013

    Just Eat CEO Klaus Nyengaard Steps Down As CEO Of The Online Food Delivery Company

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    A surprise move for Just Eat, the online food ordering and delivery site: long-time CEO Klaus Nyengaard is leaving the company. Nyengaard tells TechCrunch he is stepping down after five years to spend more time in his home country of Denmark, rather than splitting time between there and London. “It’s an awesome company, and it would have been great to be there a bit longer, but a bit longer is not… → 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

    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

    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

    April 30th, 2012

    Just-Eat Just Raised Another $64M From Vitruvian, Index, Greylock For Online Food Ordering

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    The UK may have just entered a double-dip recession but that doesn’t seem to have trickled down to how consumers are spending money on take-out food — and the companies that are building businesses around that. The UK-based online food ordering site Just-Eat has picked up a third round of funding totaling $64 million, its biggest yet, to further build out its online food ordering service.

    The… → Read More

    January 11th, 2012

    Just-Eat moves to conquer French food delivery market, acquires Alloresto

    Just-Eat, the online food ordering giant of Europe, is continuing its rapid expansion, working out a partnership / acquisition deal with Alloresto.fr, the online food delivery leader in France. Just-Eat CEO Klaus Nyengaard, who blogged about the deal here, tells me it took over a year to work out the arrangement.

    In an initial phase, Alloresto will be run as a joint-venture between the two… → Read More

    January 11th, 2012

    Just-Eat moves to conquer French food delivery market, acquires Alloresto

    Just-Eat, the online food ordering giant of Europe, is continuing its rapid expansion, working out a partnership / acquisition deal with Alloresto.fr, the online food delivery leader in France. Just-Eat CEO Klaus Nyengaard, who blogged about the deal here, tells me it took over a year to work out the arrangement.

    In an initial phase, Alloresto will be run as a joint-venture between the two… → Read More

    January 11th, 2012

    Just-Eat Moves To Conquer French Food Delivery Market, Acquires Alloresto

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    Just-Eat, the online food ordering giant of Europe, is continuing its rapid expansion, working out a partnership / acquisition deal with Alloresto.fr, the online food delivery leader in France. Just-Eat CEO Klaus Nyengaard, who blogged about the deal here, tells me it took over a year to work out the arrangement.

    In an initial phase, Alloresto will be run as a joint-venture between the two… → Read More

    October 25th, 2011

    Just-Eat Swallows GrubCanada Whole

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    London-based Just-Eat, the online food ordering company originally founded in Denmark in 2000, is putting the $48 million it raised earlier this year to good use. After taking over local rival, London online food delivery company Urbanbite, Just-Eat’s Canadian business has acquired GrubCanada. → Read More

    October 5th, 2011

    Just-Eat acquires online food delivery provider Urbanbite

    Fast-growing online takeaway service provider Just-Eat this morning announced that it has acquired Urbanbite, a London online food delivery company. The purchase marks Just-Eat’s entry into the corporate business.

    Just-Eat is taking full ownership over Urbanbite, and the latter’s founder Ben Carmona will remain with the company in an undefined ‘leadership role’. → Read More

    October 5th, 2011

    Just-Eat Acquires Online Food Delivery Provider Urbanbite

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    Fast-growing online takeaway service provider Just-Eat this morning announced that it has acquired Urbanbite, a London online food delivery company. The purchase marks Just-Eat’s entry into the corporate business.

    Just-Eat is taking full ownership over Urbanbite, and the latter’s founder Ben Carmona will remain with the company in an undefined ‘leadership role’. → Read More

    June 14th, 2011

    Sindelantal gets a €1m boost for online food delivery

    Sindelantal (meaning: without an apron), which launched a year and a half ago to tackle online restaurant take out and delivery in Spain, is announcing a €1m round from Michael Kleindl, VitaminaK and earlier investors.

    It follows initial funding of €300k in 2010 from well known angels Alberto Knapp, Iñaki Arrola, Rafael Garrido, Ramón Blanco, Luis Ongil and Alvaro Ortiz, among others, while… → Read More