GrubHub raises $2M for restaurant deliveries

March 23, 2009 | Anthony Ha | Comments |

GrubHub, a website for finding and ordering from restaurants that deliver, has raised $2 million in a second round of funding.

The Chicago company was founded in 2004, and has slowly expanded from its home city to include other metropolitan areas — New York, San Francisco, Boston, and most recently, Philadelphia. What it lacks in geographic reach it makes up in completeness; the company claims to partner with more than half the restaurants offering to deliver in its coverage areas, and says it facilitated $20 million worth of deliveries last year.

It’s easy to see why a service like this would be appealing. My roommate and I order takeout all the time (ah, the busy life of a tech blogger), and it’s already easier to Google our favorite restaurants rather than sorting through our giant pile of menus. Having a central location for delivery options would make things even more convenient, especially now that GrubHub has an iPhone application. (CityMint launched a similar app in the same week, but it isn’t free like GrubHub.)

The funding comes from Origin Ventures and Leo Capital, with participation from prior investor Amicus Capital. GrubHub previously raised a first round of $1.1 million.

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  • andy
    what about seamless web??
  • andree
    Raivo Pommer-Eesti
    raimo1@hot.ee

    Italien-Schweiz

    Italien wird wohl eines der ersten Länder sein, mit denen die Schweiz über ein neues Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen verhandeln wird.

    Die Schweizer Aussenministerin Micheline Calmy-Rey hat am Montag in Rom ihrem italienischen Amtskollegen Franco Frattini die Lockerung des Schweizer Bankgeheimnisses gegenüber Ausländern erläutert und die Position der Schweiz dargelegt.

    Frattini möchte mit «konkreten Massnahmen» auf die vom Bundesrat am 13. März beschlossene Auflockerung des Bankgeheimnisses reagieren, wie er nach dem Treffen mit Calmy-Rey sagte. Zur Debatte steht eine Revision des Doppelbesteuerungsabkommens nach den internationalen Standards. Sowohl Calmy-Rey als auch Frattini bezeichneten das Verhältnis zwischen Italien und der Schweiz als vorzüglich.
  • Hi Andy,

    Seamless is a fine service as well, but they are not the same as GrubHub.com. We are the only site that shows all the restaurants that deliver. Seamless only shows restaurants that have contracts with them.
  • Paul Perkins
    CityMint is a free iPhone application
  • For food delivery in the Bay Area eat24hours.com is my fav.
  • restaurantconnection
    For food delivery and restaurant delivery in San Diego Restaurant Connection is my favorite

    http://www.restaurantconnectionsd.com