Previously known as WeBringg, Vromo has tech partnerships with big players in the business including Olo, Doordash and Deliveroo. Food delivery SaaS start-up Vromo has raised $8m in Series A funding led by Dutch VC firm No Such Ventures. The Dublin-based company, which recently bagged big partnership deals in the US with Jack Dorsey’s payments giant Square …
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Toast, the unicorn point of sale provider, has filed to go public. According to SEC documents, the company has grown to just short 48,000 restaurant partners and saw $23.4 billion flow through its system in the six months ending with June, 30 2021. That puts the company on an annual gross profit volume (GPV) of …
If there is one thing I have learned about investing over the years, it is this: nobody can predict the future. What distinguishes the best companies — and makes their shares a good investment — is their ability to act quickly and effectively when the unexpected happens. Usually private investors lack compelling evidence that a …
Fast-food chains love the drive-thru. The lane that allows for fast, low-contact food delivery became a lifeline during the pandemic and a pillar of many chains’ future plans. Online ordering provider Olo, on the other hand, sees the traditional drive-thru as something of an impediment. “The whole premise of Olo’s original proposition of ‘skip the line’ was there shouldn’t …
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The sole public order integration and logistics company, Olo, announced substantial growth in its latest earnings and a deeper partnership with delivery platform Grubhub. Overall, the company (NYSE: OLO) beat analyst estimates on earnings and revenue in the second quarter, which the company announced on August 10. Total revenue was up 48 percent compared to …
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NEW YORK & CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Olo (NYSE: OLO), a leading on-demand commerce platform powering the restaurant industry’s digital transformation, today announced an engagement with Grubhub (NASDAQ: GRUB), a leading U.S. food-ordering and delivery marketplace, to integrate digital orders directly into the point-of-sale (POS) of tens of thousands of restaurant brand locations via Olo Rails. “The digital landscape is rapidly …
The long-awaited joy of a bustling dining room has finally returned. Yet as the industry hypothesizes about the long-term impact of digital with the return to in-person dining, billions of dollars continue to change hands in a way that will determine the fate of restaurant brand equity for years to come — and it’s happening outside of …
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Portillo’s Hot Dogs is investing in the company and implementing its turnkey delivery solutions LOS ANGELES, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Cartwheel, an on-demand delivery management platform for restaurants and retailers, announced today that it has raised a $1 million seed round led by TenOneTen Ventures with participation from Act One Ventures and Portillo’s Hot Dogs, along with angel investment from additional restaurateurs. The …
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Olo continued its post-IPO victory lap after posting its first quarterly earnings results as a public company. The delivery integration and logistics company for enterprise restaurants had a lot of great highlights from the first quarter of 2021. Revenues were up 125 percent year-over-year to $36.1 million. Gross profit was up 150 percent, suggesting the …
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Third-party delivery company DoorDash and b2b software company Olo have reached an agreement worth $25 million in credit after DoorDash filed a lawsuit against the company last month, according to an 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Both companies have also agreed to settle and dismiss DoorDash’s legal claims. DoorDash’s original lawsuit, filed with the …
