iFood, a São Paulo, Brazil-based online food delivery platform in Latin America, raised $500m in funding.
Naspers and Innova Capital committed to invest USD$400M of new capital into Movile to use for further investment in iFood, the online food delivery platform in Latin America, of which Movile is a majority shareholder.
Movile and Just Eat have already invested USD$100M in iFood during 2018.
The company intends to use the funds to speed up product development and innovation, as well as accelerate geographical expansion across the region.
Led by Carlos Moyses, CEO, iFood provides an online food delivery platform which has 10.8 monthly orders in Brazil via 50,000 restaurant partners and 120,000 couriers.
FinSMEs
14/11/2018
PRESS RELEASE
São Paulo, November 13th – Movile, a leader in mobile marketplaces in Latin America, announced today that iFood funding from the company will total USD$500M, the largest tech funding in Latin America to date. Naspers and Innova Capital have committed to invest USD$400M of new capital into Movile to use for further investment in iFood, the leading online food delivery platform in Latin America, of which Movile is a majority shareholder. Movile and Just Eat have already invested USD$100M in iFood during 2018. iFood’s extraordinary growth and the vast market opportunity in Brazil and more broadly in Latin America has driven the increased investment commitment.
iFood’s 10.8 monthly orders in Brazil have fed more than 9 million unique customers in the past twelve months, 16x the nearest online competitor * in terms of daily active users, meaning its partner restaurants are serving the biggest population of consumers ordering food in Latin America. iFood’s 50,000 restaurant partners and 120,000 couriers are offering consumers the best choice and quality of food, delivered fast, using iFood’s innovative technology platform that makes the entire food delivery experience the best offered within Latin America.
iFood is just at the beginning of its journey and the opportunity for continued explosive growth is immense. The increased investment commitment from Naspers, Innova and Movile will accelerate that growth, speed up product development and innovation, as well as fuel geographical expansion for iFood across the region. In addition, the company’s vision is, through artificial intelligence technology, to gain a more profound knowledge of consumers to personalize the food delivery experience so that people eat better, higher quality food and at a reduced price because of improved logistics.
“Movile is very fortunate to have long-term investors who have supported us for the past decade to help achieve our goal of transforming the lives of more than one billion people and thus we are able to continually back iFood to ensure it remains the market leader,” said Fabricio Bloisi, Movile CEO. Our entire ecosystem of companies is focused on allocating resources and energy towards our one billion people goal, and iFood is leading the way fueling unprecedented growth through its innovative technology platform, providing consumers, couriers and restaurants with the best experience in food ordering and delivery.”
“iFood has established itself as a technology leader in Latin America and its success stacks up with some of the most innovative food companies that are leading regions in North America, Europe and Asia. We have been impressed by their execution in Brazil and remain committed to backing the company on its path to transform the entire food chain to better serve consumers,” said Larry Illg, CEO of Naspers Ventures.
Online food delivery is experiencing incredible expansion globally. While global leaders such as GrubHub continue with strong growth, iFood is growing twice as fast. According to [latest reported results] Grubhub grew daily average orders 39% year-over-year reaching over 416k orders per day. In Latin America, iFood has reached 390k orders per day just in Brazil in the last week of October, compared with 183k from October 2017, representing an exceptional 109% growth, twice as fast as the global leaders.
“We want our consumers to have an amazing delivery experience from the moment they order their food to the moment it arrives, and our partners – the restaurants and delivery fleet – make that happen by living our purpose of improving people’s lives using our services,” explains Carlos Moyses, iFood’s CEO. “iFood exists for our customers and with an increased investment commitment of this size, we will be able to build out our state of the art technology platform, and increase our courier and restaurant partners to even better serve our current and future customers in Latin America.”