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Deliveroo’s next order: the rest of your shopping
It took 296 million orders to produce £2.9 million in profit in 2024. Now owned by DoorDash, Deliveroo is betting that your groceries, gifts and forgotten essentials belong in the same app as dinner.
Blibli Is Building an Online Mall You Can Walk Into
Phones, groceries, holidays, a new sofa. Blibli is stitching together the places Indonesians spend their money - and betting that the next online purchase may begin in a physical store.
iFood won dinner. Now it wants the rest of your day.
Brazil’s delivery heavyweight is turning takeaway habits into a business in groceries, payments and restaurant software. Its next test is making that convenience pay for everyone involved.
Rappi Wants Your Next Ten Minutes
The Colombian delivery app turned forgotten groceries into a business spanning nine countries. Now Amazon, advertisers and banks are buying into the habit it built.
The Grocer Who Bet His Life Savings on a Building Older Than the Supermarket
John Dyke grew up raising tobacco and heirloom tomatoes, then poured his life savings into a natural grocery in a building that predated the modern supermarket. Twenty-five years later, The Turnip Truck is four stores, one juice bar, and a running argument for shopping like your neighbors are farmers - because his are.
The Qatari Delivery App That Turned a Business-School Project Into a Billion-Riyal Exit
A university idea from HEC Paris became Qatar's first billion-riyal tech exit. Here is how Snoonu built a delivery machine that food, groceries and everything else now runs through.
FreshDirect Bet the Grocery Aisle Could Be Rebuilt as a Supply Chain
Long before grocery apps became ordinary, FreshDirect built a Bronx food machine that could taste a peach, portion a salmon and route both to a New York doorstep. Its next act is testing how far that tightly controlled system can open up without losing the quality that made it matter.
The Grocery Store That Put the Bouncer at the Ingredient List
Thrive Market built a 1.7 million-member grocery business by making the aisle smaller, the standards stricter and the box easier to trust. Its real product is not delivery - it is relief from reading every label.
One Fare at a Time, Snapp! Built Iran’s Everyday Operating System
Snapp! started by putting a price on a Tehran taxi ride before the passenger got in. A decade later, that small piece of certainty anchors a 20-service super app built for the peculiar scale, sanctions and street logic of Iran.
The $49 Billion Checkout Line Behind Your Dinner
Delivery Hero built a federation of local apps that can move dinner, diapers and cold medicine before the doorbell feels late. Now its most valuable product may be the logistics system hiding behind eleven familiar brands.
How a Stanford Class Project Became the Way America Gets Dinner
It started as a phone number taped to a flyer on a Palo Alto campus. A decade later, DoorDash carries more than $100 billion in orders a year and is quietly rebuilding itself into the plumbing for local commerce.
Shipt’s Real Product Is the Text Message
The Target-owned delivery company built national scale without sanding away the human detail at the center of the errand. Now it is turning that conversation between shopper and customer into a broader retail platform.
The Grocery Chain That Bet Small Stores Could Win the Health Aisle
Founded by a fruit-stand family, Sprouts skips the premium-organic playbook - smaller stores, produce up front, and shelves sorted by diet instead of brand.
Vallarta Supermarkets
A family butcher shop became a regional grocery chain by treating tortillas, carne asada and pan dulce as infrastructure - not ethnic-aisle decoration. Forty years later, Vallarta is carrying that fresh-food system beyond California.
Krave Mart
Krave Mart is a Karachi-based quick-commerce grocery startup that delivers everyday household essentials from a network of neighborhood dark stores, typically in 30 minutes. Founded in 2021 and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch, it raised what was then Pakistan's largest pre-seed round and built its model around sustainable unit economics and private-label products rather than pure delivery speed. In 2026 it was acquired by ride-hailing company inDrive to power grocery delivery inside inDrive's app.
BJ's Wholesale Club
BJ's Wholesale Club is a leading operator of membership warehouse clubs in the eastern United States, offering members up to 25% savings on groceries, fresh food, household essentials, general merchandise, and fuel through a paid-membership model. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the company runs more than 250 clubs and 190-plus gas stations across roughly 20 states, blending bulk warehouse value with everyday grocery frequency, private-brand depth, and a fast-growing digital and same-day delivery business.
Segari
Segari is an Indonesian e-grocery company that sources fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and staple goods directly from farmers and delivers them to urban households in the Greater Jakarta area, typically within 15 hours from farm to table. Founded in 2020, it combines a direct-to-consumer app with a network of neighborhood agents who acquire customers and handle last-mile delivery, aiming to cut out the many layers of Indonesia's traditional agricultural supply chain so consumers get fresher produce at lower prices and farmers get fairer returns.
Shipday
Shipday is a cloud-based, AI-powered delivery management platform that lets small and medium-sized businesses - restaurants, grocers, pizzerias, florists, couriers and e-commerce sellers - run their own local deliveries without paying gig-economy commissions. It combines dispatch automation, route optimization, a driver mobile app, real-time branded tracking, proof of delivery and AI agents for customer communication, and connects to third-party fleets like DoorDash and Uber for overflow. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Shipday serves more than 6,000 businesses across 100+ countries and has powered over 30 million deliveries.
Calii
Calii is a full-stack grocery delivery app rebuilding Latin America's food supply chain from the producer to the doorstep. Founded in Monterrey, Mexico, the company sources directly from farmers and brands, runs its own micro-fulfillment centers, and ships orders in under two hours.
Weee!
Weee! is North America's largest online ethnic grocer, delivering Asian and Hispanic groceries direct to homes across the United States. Founded in 2015 by Larry Liu as a WeChat group-buying experiment, it has grown into a vertically integrated platform with a $4.1B valuation and more than $1B in annualized revenue.