Foodspotting helps you find the foods you love — not just the restaurants

Foodspotting helps you find the foods you love — not just the restaurants

Editor’s note: This is part of VentureBeat’s series “Startup Spotlight.” Every week, we’ll sift through the scores of companies applying to be promoted and profile the best one. Companies can sign up here at the Entrepreneur Corner, which is currently sponsored by Microsoft. (Of course, you’ll still find lots of startup news and innovation in our day-to-day coverage.) Today, we continue the series with Foodspotting, below.

Foodspotting, a young web-based food guide that takes reviews beyond… Continue Reading

GrubHub raises $2M for restaurant deliveries

GrubHub raises $2M for restaurant deliveries

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… Continue Reading