This article showcases our top picks for the best Germany based Food Delivery companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food Delivery industry, but are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Societal impact
Top Germany Food Delivery Companies
HelloFresh is a food subscription company that sends pre-portioned ingredients to users’ doorstep each week. It enables anyone to cook quick and healthy meals designed by nutritionists and chefs.
HelloFresh aims to provide each and every household in its 10 markets with the opportunity to enjoy wholesome home-cooked meals with no planning, no shopping, and no hassle required. Their subscription business model with regular delivery enables them to fundamentally change the way consumers shop for food and to develop new ways people prepare and consume meals, changing the traditional food supply chain.
HelloFresh is at the forefront of disrupting a multitrillion dollar industry at the very beginning of its online transition.. .
Founded in Berlin in 2011, Delivery Hero is a worldwide network of online food ordering sites, operating in 21 countries and with over 73,000 restaurant partners. Delivery Hero operates in Germany, UK, Austria, South Korea, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Australia, Switzerland, China, India, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Panama, and Puerto Rico.
The Group has more than 1000 employees globally, with 400 working from its Berlin Headquarters. Delivery Hero has received $523 million in investment in 2014 alone with investors including Insight Venture Partners, Luxor Capital Group, Kite Ventures, Team Europe, ru-Net, Tengelmann Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Vostok Nafta, and Phenomen Ventures..
Foodpanda is a global online food delivery marketplace that enables users to place orders at local restaurants via its website or mobile application. Customers enter their postcodes on the site, browse for food from a list of restaurants, and place the order; foodpanda processes the order details, sends out an SMS to customers to confirm orders and their estimated delivery time, and passes the details to partner restaurants; and the restaurants deliver the food to customers.
It is called foodpanda in Asia and Europe and hellofood in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Foodpanda has partnered with more than 60, 000 restaurants globally, including Pizza Hut, Subway, KFC, McDonalds, and Jollibee.
Foodpanda was launched by Ralf Wenzel and Benjamin Bauer in 2012 and is operated from Berlin, Germany with presence in over 40 countries and 500 cities across 5 continents.. .
Choco is a young startup with plenty of momentum that’s aiming to attract restaurants and suppliers. It also makes ordering and communication with your suppliers faster and simpler.
They are simplifying how to order from their suppliers and their technology has the potential to help millions of people worldwide. Choco connecting food suppliers and restaurants on one global platform.
Their technology has the potential to optimize communication among food channels to create a more transparent supply chain. The young start-up seeks to build up a user base among suppliers and restaurants keen to build out their networks..
Just Spices is a spice-mix and meal-prep brand that manufactures and markets food products. With numerous spice blends and pure spices, Just Spices inspires online and in an increasing number of supermarkets a growing consumer base to refine their own dishes and become creative in the kitchen.
In addition to that, in 2018, the spice manufactory also launched the Just Spices IN MINUTES fix category online and nationwide in all REWE supermarkets. Just Spices offering 7 “fix” meal preparations that see Just Spices provide the recipe and spice mix needed to prepare a quick meal, with only a few additional fresh ingredients required to complete the dish.
Since then, with 27 fix recipes, the company has been setting new standards for the fast and easy preparation of modern dishes in everyday life. Just Spices was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany..
Marley Spoon makes it easy to cook a delicious meal at home by sending tasty recipes and fresh ingredients directly to your door. With Marley Spoon, you’re in control—you decide what to eat, when to eat, and with how many.
Leave behind the hassle of grocery shopping, say goodbye to food waste, and fall in love with cooking all over again. Marley Spoon is a cooking platform that offers recipes, helps its customers order seasonal ingredients.
flaschenpost is a German company offering on-demand beverage delivery. The unique business model has been extremely successful; currently flaschenpost SE operates 21 hubs serving more than 130 cities across Germany, and delivers more than 60,000 crates per day (as of June 2020).
Thanks to an efficient routing algorithm and optimized logistics, flaschenpost delivers within 120 minutes of the order, right to the customer’s door.. .
The first samples, hand-bottled by hand, were meant for friends and family, all of whom were enthusiastic. Oliver and Michael immediately realized that they had created something they wanted to share with even more people.
So both scraped together the last remnants of their financial resources and made a project in 2011. Due to a “misunderstanding”, the first 3000 bottles were produced from the initially planned 300.
Since it was a bit too much for the private setting, the two began to send samples to the retail trade. Without any prior knowledge of the industry and any contacts the two poached through the German retail landscape.
The answer was prompt and within days they had sold the first 2500 bottles to the first large retail chain.. .
Fleksa helps restaurants go online and receive online food orders without paying third-party commission. With the launch of our web app, customers in frankfurt will be able to order food with ease and make a contribution to supporting local restaurants.
Prepmymeal offers a healthy meal prep delivery service through a subscription based online shop. In our modern society time is one of the most important assets.
Often, we have no time to cook fresh and healthy every day. Outside unhealthy fast food dominates the restaurants.
We want to solve this problem and change the way people eat. Therefore, we remove all the barriers like planning, shopping and cooking that prevent you to eat healthy.
We deliver once a week a package full of fresh & healthy meals to your place. They are durable for 7 days in the fridge and all you need to do is warm them up and enjoy..
Environmental protection – sustainability – local and conscious consumption. Topics that have become more and more important in recent years and are also close to our hearts.
We focus on the beekeepers – because without beekeepers, no honey bees. With nearBees we want to radically simplify honey marketing for beekeepers and also provide convenient access to local honey.
So you do not only do something good for yourself, but at the same time you care for a species-rich native nature. Because our local bees not only produce unique honey, they also pollinate the plants in our natural environment – almost one third of the food depends directly or indirectly on the bees.
With nearBees and locally grown honey we want to contribute to preserving beekeeping and biodiversity in our natural environment.. .
We are on demand authentic Asian meal kit service. We aim to bring truly fresh and awesome Asian cooking and dining experience to your home.
From choosing the recipes to shopping experience, we will deliver complete convenience for our users.. .
casualfood ,founded in 2005 and based in Frankfurt/Main, operates in the fast food market, as a quick service provider, in travel catering at particularly highly frequented locations. casualfood came to prominence when it launched mobile sales units at Frankfurt Airport, used at departure gate A for the first time in 2005.
The innovative company, with its workforce of just under 360 as of the end of 2011, now has a presence at Frankfurt, Berlin and Düsseldorf airports with mobile and stationary sales areas and a wide variety of sales concepts (“Mayer’s Brezel”, “QUICKER’s”, “Mondo” etc.). Since the company was founded, the experienced management team has been able to use this concept to achieve impressive growth, which it aims to continue to drive forward in future by extending airport locations and expanding to railway stations and motorway service areas.
A successful course that Co-Investor has been fully supporting with know-how and capital since 2012.. .
This article was written by Benjamin Friedberg from Toast Fried. The editor for this article was Tess Page. If your company is featured in this article and you want to have amendments made please contact us on: [email protected].
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