by Nicholas Upton | Mar 31, 2022 | Finance, News
Instacart made some finance news when it voluntarily slashed its valuation by almost 40 percent, from nearly $40 billion to $24 billion. That seems quite bad at first blush, but the valuation dip offers a window into the mismatch between venture capital valuations and...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 13, 2022 | News, Top Stories
ezCater closed out 2021 with a $100-million investment that might seem unexpected as omicron axes return-to-office plans across the globe. By focusing on jobs that have to be done inside the workplace, shrinking its own headcount and debuting a marketing campaign...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 26, 2019 | Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
There have been a handful of watershed moments in the third-party delivery space these last few years: Grubhub going public in 2014; Target buying Shipt in 2017; and DoorDash raising three-quarters of a billion dollars during 2018. With the latest news that DoorDash...
by Laura Michaels | Apr 18, 2017 | Finance, News
By Laura Michaels In a ring filled with retail heavyweights, Amazon is the hulking value giant. The Seattle-based online retailer, grocery chain, filmmaker, foodservice equipment supplier and yes, bookstore, is worth more than Walmart, Costco and Target combined,...