Delivery Hero

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Who We Are

In May 2011 Niklas Östberg (the guy with the pizza) founded Delivery Hero and began his journey of building the global leader in online food ordering. His founding team, completed by members of Team Europe, shared decades of knowledge of working with internet companies. Likewise important, they shared a vision for the future of online food ordering. Together with a hand-picked, passionate team they managed to truly catapult the business to where it is today.

Delivery Hero and its headquarters are located in Berlin, boasting 1000 employees in HQ alone. Diversity is a key pillar for our success. Employees with over 70 nationalities across 5 continents work for us, enabling us to exchange best practice from markets from each corner of the world.

Fortunately, we are not the only ones who believe in our vision to transform the industry. The business is backed by first-tier investors. To date $1 billion has been raised in our mission to provide people with the easiest way to their favourite food.

Our team

What we do

Since we started Delivery Hero we have been continuously transforming the way people order food online. In essence, visiting our platforms is the easiest way to your favourite food. Choice, convenience, reliability, and quality are the key benefits for our customers. You can easily browse thousands of restaurant menus to find your favourite dish. Orders and payments can conveniently be placed online and restaurants are peer-reviewed, making it easier to choose the best restaurant every time. With just a few clicks delicious food is on its way!

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Smart

Delivery Hero has access to thousands of restaurants, enabling you to quickly search and order from the best in your area. You can pay online and even save your favourite menus.

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Fast

With one click your online order goes straight to the restaurant’s kitchen, ensuring your food is always delivered hot and on time.

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Reliable

With millions of customer reviews and ratings available, it’s easy to always find the best restaurants and tastiest food in your area.

Key Facts about

Delivery Hero

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    Founded in May 2011

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    Operating in +40 markets with +6000 employees plus thousands of employed drivers

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    The largest food network in the world with more than 150.000 restaurant partners

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    Global leader in the space with 291.5 million orders processed (2017)

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    More than $1.5 billion invested into Delivery Hero to date

2008

February

An heroic idea was born: Niklas Östberg starts an online food-ordering service in Sweden

2010

November

Launch of Lieferheld

2011

May

Founding of the Delivery Hero Network

October

Hungryhouse joining Delivery Hero

2012

March

OnlinePizza Norden (Sweden, Finland, Austria, Poland) also joining the Delivery Hero family

2013

June

Breaking the 50,000 restaurant barrier

2014

January

Insight Venture Partners invests $88 Million in Delivery Hero

5 million meals ordered monthly, which accounts to 1 order every second

June

PedidosYa, the clear market leader in Latin America, is joining the Delivery Hero network

August

Willkommen, pizza.de! The German market leader partners with the global market leader

September

Delivery Hero raises another $350 Million from US investors, the largest startup investment of 2014 in Europe and the third-largest European venture round since 1999 (according to “Wall Street Journal”)

December

Our restaurant network grows to more than 100,000 restaurants after Baedaltong from Korea joins Delivery Hero

2015

February

The company takes on Rocket Internet as a minority investor with a stake of 30% to expand its global ambition

March

Talabat.com joins the Delivery Hero network. Talabat is the clear market leader in the Middle East

May

Hoş geldiniz, Yemeksepeti ! The Turkish market leader becomes an integral part of the global market leader. Just like our other growth businesses in the Middle East Yemeksepeti has exceptionally loyal customers, generating some of the highest monthly orders per customer in our group.

September

foodora becomes a new member of the Delivery Hero family. The service, operating in 10 countries, offers delivery from selected quality restaurants that traditionally don’t deliver. This segment is another essential part of the Delivery Hero vision to transform the industry.  Within 12 months foodora achieves higher gross profits per order than our core marketplace business, proving the attractiveness of the business model.

2016

May

Delivery Hero is celebrating its 5th birthday! We have become one of the most reputable and valued start-ups in Europe, currently seeing record growth and processing 14 million orders monthly. Our network has grown to more than 100k restaurants around the globe connected to our service. The team is proud of having built an amazing product and having constantly improved the customer experience. And we have only just started…

What about the number of orders on our birthday? On May 22nd we transmitted 602,000 orders and provided far more a million people with a meal.

December

After the acquisition of foodpanda, the Delivery Hero Group is processing over 20 million orders per month across +40 countries. At the same time we say goodbye to our UK business to remain focused on operating market leading brands (sale is subject to approval by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority).

2017

May

Naspers, a global internet and entertainment group and one of the world’s largest technology investors, is investing EUR 387 million in Delivery Hero.

June

Delivery Hero goes public in a listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, having its market debut on June 30th. The listing is the largest by a European technology business in almost two years. Delivery Hero raised almost €1bn from the offering. On the first day of trading the share price rose to €26.90, up 5.5 percent.

September

Naspers increased its stake in Delivery Hero from 10.6 percent to 23.6 percent by acquiring shares that were previously held by Rocket Internet.

Naspers is one of the largest internet investors in the world, holding minority stakes in digital players such as Tencent, Mail.Ru or Flipkart.