Nana Funding, Investors & Competitors

Philadelphia-headquartered Gopuff fulfills instant deliveries of convenience goods from neighborhood warehouses, stocking items like Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Doritos chips, Red Bull drinks, diapers, condoms, and alcohol where licensed. App users browse digital shelves for orders dispatched by driver-partners in minutes across major US metros and UK cities. The service launched in 2013.

Kitopi is a Kitchen as a Service platform enabling restaurants to launch delivery-only venues with managed kitchens and software infrastructure. Operating in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain since 2018, it supports rapid expansion for food brands minimizing upfront investments. The model facilitates virtual restaurant concepts across the Gulf region.

Uber Technologies is a technology provider that matches riders with drivers, hungry people with restaurants and food couriers, and shippers with carriers. The firm's on-demand technology platform is currently utilized by traditional cars as well as autonomous vehicles, but could eventually be used for additional products and services, such as delivery via drones or electronic vehicle take-off and landing (eVTOL) technology. Uber operates in over 70 countries, with over 202 million users who order rides or food at least once a month.

Prosus is a consumer internet group with listed and unlisted platforms across 100 countries. Around 80% of Prosus’ net asset value is derived from its Tencent holdings, the world’s largest game publisher and operator of WeChat, China’s super app with 1.3 billion users. Prosus has approximately a 23% stake in Tencent. The rest of the group’s businesses and investments are organized into classifieds, food delivery, payments and fintech, and edtech. This includes ownership of iFood, Brazil’s largest food delivery app, and a 25% stake in Swiggy, the second-largest delivery platform in India.In 2019, Prosus was spun out of South Africa-based parent company Naspers Ltd and listed on the Euronext exchange. Naspers holds approximately 75% of Prosus’ shares.

Founded in 2013 within the confines of the San Francisco application renaissance, DoorDash is an online delivery demand aggregator. Consumers can use its app to order food on demand for delivery or in-store pickup from participating merchants. Following the 2022 acquisition of Wolt, the firm also provides this service in Europe and Asia. DoorDash creates a marketplace for merchants to establish an online presence, market their offerings, and meet demand through delivery. The firm provides similar services to non-restaurant businesses, such as grocery, retail, and pet supplies. DoorDash is also rolling out emerging technologies, such as drone delivery, to continually innovate and deliver the best possible service to both supply-side and demand-side participants in its marketplace.

Meituan is the largest food delivery platform in China, with a 60%-70% share of the market in 2024, according to Morningstar estimates. In the third quarter of 2024, the firm generated 74% of its revenue from the core local commerce segment, which includes on-demand food delivery and retail, in-store services (such as visiting beauty and entertainment stores after purchasing deals on Meituan), and hotel and travel booking. The remaining 26% of revenue came from the new initiatives segment, such as the community group purchase business Meituan Select and the overseas food delivery business.

DiDi Global Inc is a mobility technology platform that provides a range of mobility services as well as other services. It is building four key components of its platform that work together to improve the consumer experience: shared mobility; energy and vehicle services; electric mobility; and autonomous driving. It is a go-to brand in China for shared mobility, providing consumers with a range of safe, affordable, and convenient mobility services, including ride-hailing, taxi-hailing, chauffeur, hitch, and other forms of shared mobility. The company operates in three segments: China Mobility, which mainly includes ride-hailing services to riders, and also acts as an agent by connecting end-users to service providers who provide taxi hailing; International; and Other Initiatives.

Founded in 2011, Delivery Hero is an online delivery demand aggregator. The company is headquartered in Germany and operates in over 70 countries across Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Delivery Hero creates a marketplace for merchants to establish an online presence, market their offerings, and meet demand through delivery. Nearly half of Delivery Hero’s revenue is commission fees from merchants. Through its applications, which vary by region, customers can order meals, grocery items, pharmacy products, and retail goods. In addition, Delivery Hero operates Dmarts.

Founded in 2012, Grab provides ride-sharing services, food and grocery delivery, and financial services (payments, consumer loans, and enterprise offerings) in eight Southeast-Asian countries through its mobile platform. The company partners with merchants and riders, connecting them with consumers while charging commission to both sides. Grab has a leading market share in and derives 89% of its revenue from its core businesses, ride-sharing and food delivery. Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia contributed more than 70% of revenue in 2024. Grab’s main competitors in Southeast Asia are Line Man and Goto. Its financial services business is still in its nascent stage and provides minimal revenue currently. The company now also generates advertising revenue.

Maplebear (Instacart) is a grocery-focused delivery marketplace that connects national and regional grocers with consumers and couriers, and consumers with their favorite stores. Its app provides on-demand convenience for consumers, allows couriers to earn income, and helps grocers to scale their business through digital channels. The marketplace gathers valuable consumer behavior data, attracting consumer-packaged-goods advertisers that seek to reach consumers at the point of purchase. With approximately 600,000 shoppers and 1,800 retail partners, Instacart delivers to about 98% of households in the United States and Canada.

Talabat Holding PLC is engaged in the on-demand online food ordering, delivery, takeaway and groceries and convenience retail marketplace in the MENA region, with operations in the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman, Jordan, and Iraq.

Rappi is a leading on-demand delivery platform operating across Latin America, including Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Customers use its mobile app to order groceries, meals, pharmaceuticals, pet supplies, and gifts, with options like Turbo for rapid service and integrated digital wallets for payments. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bogota, Rappi also facilitates travel bookings and cash delivery, serving millions through hyperlocal logistics networks.

ezCater is a Boston-headquartered online marketplace connecting users with local caterers for food orders. Founded in 2007, the platform facilitates group meals and events through ezcater.com, partnering with thousands of vendors nationwide.

Zomato (legal name Eternal Ltd) is an online food service platform. The customers use the platform to search and discover restaurants, read and write customer-generated reviews and view and upload photos, order food delivery, book a table, and make payments while dining out at restaurants. It also provides a platform for Restaurant partners and Brands to advertise themselves to the target audience in India and abroad and supplies high-quality ingredients to Restaurant partners. Its reportable segments include India food ordering and delivery; Hyperpure supplies, Quick commerce business, Going Out, and All other segments. The company generates maximum revenue from the India food ordering and delivery segment.

Match Group Inc is a provider of online dating products. The company's portfolio of brands includes Tinder, Hinge, Match, Meetic, OkCupid, Pairs, Plenty Of Fish, Azar, BLK, and more, each built to increase its user's likelihood of connecting with others. The company has four operating segments: Tinder, Hinge, Evergreen and Emerging, and Match Group Asia. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Tinder segment.

Swiggy Ltd is a consumer-first technology company offering users an easy to use convenience platform, accessible through a unified app to browse, select, order and pay for food (Food Delivery), grocery and household items (Instamart), and have their orders delivered to their doorstep through on-demand delivery partner network. Its platform can be used to make restaurant reservations (Dineout) and for events bookings (SteppinOut). It has five business segments: Food Delivery, Out of home consumption, Quick commerce. Supply chain and distribution and Platform Innovations. Key revenue is generated from Food delivery business that offer on demand Food Delivery services through a network of restaurant partners and delivery partners, which is available through mobile application and or website.

Zepto is a Mumbai-headquartered quick-commerce platform delivering groceries, fruits, and electronics in 10 minutes via dark stores. Operating 300+ warehouses in 10 cities, Zepto stocks 5,000 SKUs from brands like Nestle and P&G. The app serves urban India with slotless ordering. Valued at $1.4 billion in 2023, it raised funds from Y Combinator Continuity.

Nice Tuan is a Shanghai-based e-commerce platform specializing in daily groceries, fresh produce, household essentials, and local specialties delivered within two hours in urban China. Operating since 2018, it sources from regional suppliers and warehouses in Jiangsu province, offering bundled deals and subscription boxes for office workers through its WeChat mini-program and app.