deletion in accordance with wikipedia s deletion policy . please share your thoughts on the matter at this article s entry on the articles for deletion page . feel free to edit the article but the article must not be blanked and this notice must not be removed until the discussion is closed . for more information particularly on merging or moving the article during the discussion read the guide to deletion . % 5b % 5bwikipedia % 3aarticles for deletion % 2fdelivery hero % 5d % 5dafd delivery hero industry online food ordering founded 2011 1 founder niklas stberg headquarters berlin germany area served worldwide products food and beverages for delivery or pick up number of employees 3 000 website delivery hero delivery hero holding gmbh is an online food delivery service based in berlin germany . the company operates in 33 countries internationally in europe asia latin america and the middle east and partners with 300 000 restaurants . 2 delivery hero users can find local restaurants filter by cuisine browse menus read reviews and other information like the restaurant operating times and order takeaway food online . payments can be made by credit card paypal or with cash on delivery . delivery hero services are also accessible via mobile app iphone android windows phone blackberry . contents 1 history 2 investment 3 competitors 4 references 5 further reading 6 external links history edit delivery hero holding was founded by niklas stberg kolja hebenstreit markus fuhrmann and lukasz gadowski in may 2011 with the goal of turning delivery hero into a global online food ordering platform . 3 under the leadership of niklas stberg and fabian siegel delivery hero first expanded to australia russia and mexico in 2011 . in early 2012 the enterprise acquired lieferheld in germany and hungryhouse.co.uk in the uk . 4 delivery hero then raised 25 million in new funding to finance acquisitions in four european countries sweden finland austria and poland . in august 2012 delivery hero started expanding in both south korea and china through yogiyo and aimifan 5 and the asian expansion continued in 2013 when delivery hero increased investment in tastykhana following a successful cooperation period . 6 in 2012 and 2013 the harsh competition between the various delivery service online portals led the german press to dub the events as cyberwar between the big web portals . there were reports of frequent denial of service attack attacks against each portal accusations of data stealing as well as numerous lawsuits of the portals against each other . delivery hero was one of the more aggressive actors and in 2012 the delivery hero office in berlin was raided by police and the prosecution pressed charged against the delivery hero management . delivery hero was prosecuted for perpetrating dos attacks against its competitors and stealing data from the other web services . 7 8 in 2014 delivery hero acquired a controlling stake in latin american market leader pedidosya 9 and in august 2014 the group acquired german market leader and rival pizza.de . 10 11 according to tnw tech5 2014 delivery hero was one of germany s top 3 fastest growing start ups . 12 delivery hero today is one of the world s largest online food ordering network with over 300 000 global restaurant partners more than 2 000 staff in 33 countries worldwide . delivery hero is the largest largest online food ordering network service in germany and among the largest worldwide . 13 14 in april 2015 delivery hero acquired south korean delivery service baedaltong one of the chief competitors of its own yogiyo service . one month later delivery hero bought the turkish competitor yemeksepeti for 530 million euro which was the largest acquisition in this business sector to date . 15 in october 2015 delivery hero also acquired munich based food delivery service foodora from rocket internet . 16 investment edit in november 2011 delivery hero received its first investment funding . in this financing round team europe holtzbrinck ventures tengelmann ventures kite ventures and ru net together invested 4 million . 17 the second funding round took place in april 2012 . this time the existing investors raised their investments by 25 million to support the international growth of the enterprise . in august 2012 delivery hero received an additional 40 million funded primarily by kite ventures and kreos capital . 18 a series d financing round saw delivery hero receive 30 million from phenomen ventures in the latest series d financing round . 19 in january 2014 delivery hero announced a series e financing of 88 million led by insight venture partners . 20 a further 85m followed in april 2014 and was used to strengthen delivery hero s presence in core markets . 21 in september 2014 a further 350m of investment was secured from existing partners and swedish fund vostok nafta . 22 this was the largest investment in a european start up since 2009 . 23 in december 2014 the company raised another 287 million from rocket internet . the total investment size by rocket internet was 496 million in primary and secondary for a 30 % stake in delivery hero . 24 three months later rocket internet increased its stake in delivery hero to 39 % . competitors edit delivery hero s main competitors are just eat grubhub foodpanda and deliveroo . references edit about us . hungryhouse . retrieved 27 december 2013 . meyer david delivery hero fuels up for acquisitions with fresh 49m round retrieved 21 september 2012 h sing alexander kurzmitteilungen delivery hero commercetools chocri startup weekend n rnberg niklas zennstr m retrieved 21 september 2012 brenneisen malte ; eversmeier jochen lieferhelden greifen an retrieved 22 september 2012 fowler nina delivery hero takes on asia s giant china retrieved 22 september 2012 delivery hero invests 5m in india s tastykhana . 13 june 2013 . retrieved 11 october 2016 . henryk hielscher . pizza inferno die cyberschlacht der essens portale cyber battle between the food portals in german . wirtschaftswoche . retrieved 12 october 2016 . veit medick ; marcel rosenbach . cyberkrieg der pizzaboten cyberwar of the pizza delivery men in german . der spiegel . retrieved 12 october 2016 . uruguay s pedidosya acquired by delivery hero expands network to 20 countries endeavor . 28 june 2014 . retrieved 11 october 2016 . lunden ingrid . delivery hero joins the 1b valuation club as it gobbles rival pizza.de . retrieved 11 october 2016 . lieferheld schluckt pizza.de delivery hero swallows pizza.de in german . s ddeutsche zeitung . retrieved 12 october 2016 . laive patrick de 11 april 2014 . tech5 here s europe s fastest growing tech companies . retrieved 11 october 2016 . delivery hero treibt b rsengang voran delivery hero continues with stock market entry in german . n tv . retrieved 12 october 2016 . andreas d rnfelder . riese der bringdienste lieferheld schluckt pizza.de delivery service giant swallows pizza.de in german . handelsblatt . retrieved 12 october 2016 . delivery hero kauft t rkischen wettbewerber delivery hero buys turkish competitor in german . handelsblatt . retrieved 12 october 2016 . on demand food delivery service foodora merges with delivery hero s urban taste and breaks into the global market retrieved 19 september 2015 when delivery hero was young the early years . 13 july 2016 . retrieved 11 october 2016 . delivery hero sammelt weitere 40 millionen euro ein . 27 august 2012 . retrieved 11 october 2016 . lomas natasha . delivery hero tops up series d with 30m as its global take out service heads for profit . retrieved 11 october 2016 . delivery hero secures 88m series e aims to conquer european online delivery space . 16 january 2014 . retrieved 11 october 2016 . lunden ingrid . delivery hero gobbles another 85m to fuel a price war with just eat . retrieved 11 october 2016 . http www.ft.com intl cms s 0 a102f074 3374 11e4 85f1 00144feabdc0.html axzz3ckhegmvw basich zoran . the daily startup the biggest european venture capital rounds ever . retrieved 11 october 2016 . germany spiegel online hamburg . essen auf r dern samwer br der investieren halbe milliarde in essenszustellung . retrieved 11 october 2016 . further reading edit http www.gruenderszene.de allgemein delivery hero streicht tech stellen http www.gruenderszene.de allgemein lieferheld david rodriguez trennung http www.welt.de print wams finanzen article152209382 verlustgeschaeft mit potenzial.html http www.gruenderszene.de news strafbefehl lieferheld external links edit delivery hero holding gmbh official site v t e online food ordering services deliveroo delivery.com delivery hero eatoye eatstreet foodler foodora foodpanda hellofood grubhub hungryhouse just eat menulog munchery seamless orderahead takeaway.com ubereats yemeksepeti zomato software openrest category online food ordering food portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title delivery hero & oldid 744070861 categories online 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