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Prepared for Mary | Delivered September 24, 2019
On-Demand Food Delivery Startups
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Goals
To gain a list of on-demand food delivery startups in the US, especially focused on urban area delivery providers.
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Early Findings
The major
players
in this field are DoorDash,
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, GrubHub, Caviar and Amazon Restaurants.
Other
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Delivery Hero
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Delivery.com
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, Bite Squad, Beyond Menu,
EAT Club
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Good Uncle
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Eat Street
and Order Ahead.
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is nearly in this same market, but we have excluded it as it is targeted towards delivery
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snacks and items from a convenience store, not from restaurants.
We also assumed "food delivery" to be ready-to-eat already-prepared food, not groceries or meal kits.
Our strategy was first to look for
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lists of US on-demand food delivery startups in the US. As
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no longer offers its listings for free, we were unable to pull together a comprehensive listing using this popular
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database. After exploring several other avenues for comprehensive lists, we then realized there were no up-to-date lists available in the public domain.
Therefore, we then combed through several listings located in the media and through business publications, eliminating those that are now defunct or were not relevant to already-prepared food delivery. We also utilized some other business listing directories, though not specialized in startups, like Craft.co and
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