Carry out business around “staff catering”.
According to foreign mediaNordic9 reported that Germany Smunch completed 18 million euros ( (Approximately US$21.35 million) A round of financing was led by Luxor Capital Group, with participation from Nosara Capital, Colle Capital, and Emmanuel Thomassin, CEO of German food delivery company Delivery Hero.
Before this round of financing, Smunch also received investment from LeadX, Techstars and Metro Xcel in 2016.
Smunch, a food delivery company, was founded in 2016 by Oliver Hüfner and Shivram Ayyagari and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It aims to provide catering delivery services for office employees.
Smunch defines itself as an “online canteen” (online canteen), and cooperates with many restaurants to provide lunches for employees of various companies. In this process, Smunch, restaurant and company employees are all beneficiaries: Smunch can get operating income; restaurants can reduce operating costs, taxes and social security payments; employees can eat warm meals after work and fully enjoy lunch break time.
In addition, Smunch also launched a daily delivery service to provide corporate customers with a reserve of fresh food, snack boxes and fruit baskets.
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Shivram AyyagariSaid that the epidemic has led to fewer and fewer people working in the office, and people’s working methods may also change in the future. The company’s business model will also be adjusted in accordance with consumer needs, and provide consumers with Take-home service for meals.
So far, Smunch has about 80 employees and operates in three cities: Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. It has provided catering services to more than 100 companies, including Nike, Mercedes-Benz, N26 and Wayfair.
In the field of corporate employee catering services, it has also been reported before HungreBox and Meal Mealsetc. HungerBox allows employees of the company to access various catering services on the platform through mobile phones, and can directly select catering menus provided by food suppliers, and then they can easily place orders to get them Gourmet;Meicine is an enterprise-level catering consumption platform, providing its customers with employee meals, event meals, in-store consumption, innovative employee restaurants, business banquets, and technology Cooperation and other comprehensive catering services.