Instacart Appoints Fidji Simo as its New CEO
Grocery delivery company Instacart announced today that it is appointing Fidji Simo as its new CEO effective August 2. Simo has been on Instacart’s board since January of this year. […]
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Valqari Launching Single-Family Drone Mailboxes Later this Year, Targeting $1,500 Price Point
Valqari is looking to launch a retail, single-family version of its drone delivery smart locker later this year, and is working to get the cost of it below $1,500. Valqari […]
Popmenu Raises $65M for its Restaurant Digital Marketing and Ordering Platform
Popmenu, a digital marketing and ordering platform for restaurants, announced today that it has raised a $65 million Series C round of funding. The round was led by Tiger Global […]
Virtual Restaurant Company Curb Raises €20M
Stockholm, Sweden-based ghost kitchen startup Curb announced this week it has raised a €20 million (~$24.4 million USD) round led by Point72 Ventures (h/t tech.eu). EQT, an existing investor, also […]
Grubhub Debuts ‘Commission-Free’ Platform Aimed at Independent Restaurants
Grubhub on Wednesday launched Grubhub Direct, a platform independent restaurants can use to build their own online storefronts and process orders free of commission. According to a press release from […]
Anatomy of a Digital Restaurant
This is the web version of our Weekly Restaurant Tech newsletter. Subscribe today to get weekly food tech news delivered directly to your inbox. When Taster, a virtual restaurant company […]
DoorDash Launches Tiered Commission Fees for Restaurants
DoorDash announced today that is has launched a new pricing structure to deal with its historically controversial restaurant commission fees. Via these “Partnership Plans,” as the service calls them, U.S. […]
Bancroft Automated Restaurant Services Plots Pizza Robot for Parking Lots
Parking lots are typically associated with, well parking your car, or maybe doing donuts if you’re feeling rebellious. But parking lots may soon be home to an entirely new phenomenon […]
Pizza: an Opportunity for Restaurant Tech Innovation
This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to get the latest food tech news in your inbox, and for content only available in the newsletter. Recently, a restaurant technology […]
Slice Raises $40M to Digitize the Independent Pizzeria
Slice, a restaurant-tech platform for independent pizzerias, announced today it has raised $40 million in Series D funding. The round was led by Cross Creek with participation from existing investors […]
C3 and Lunchbox Launch a New App to Power Virtual Food Halls
Virtual restaurant company C3 and online order platform Lunchbox announced today the launch of a new restaurant app, CITIZENS GO. The app will provide ordering and delivery services for C3’s […]
The Next Big Tech for the Virtual Food Hall
Here’s a concept that seems stupidly simple but is actually a technologically complex feat: letting customers order from multiple virtual restaurants with a single digital transaction. As ghost kitchens multiply, […]
