Deliveroo

deliveroo.co.uk

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Deliveroo is a London-founded on-demand local-commerce platform connecting consumers, restaurants, grocers, retailers and independent couriers through a technology-enabled three-sided marketplace. It became a DoorDash subsidiary on 2 October 2025.

Primary product

Consumer ordering and on-demand delivery for restaurant meals, groceries, pharmacy, gifts and other retail products, with related products including Deliveroo Plus, Deliveroo for Work and Deliveroo HOP.

Founded

2013

Headquarters

The River Building, 1 Cousin Lane, London, EC4R 3TE, United Kingdom

Team size

4,000+ employees; third-party profiles report approximately 3,839–4,856 staff, excluding approximately 130,000 couriers

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Technology / online food and local-commerce delivery

Sub-industry

FoodTech, restaurant technology, grocery and retail delivery marketplace

Offices

London, United Kingdom

Manchester, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Paris, France

Hyderabad, India

Business model

Commission or take-rate from restaurant, grocery and retail partners

Customer delivery and service fees

Subscription membership through Deliveroo Plus

Advertising and promoted-placement revenue

Corporate meals through Deliveroo for Work

Managed delivery, HOP and dark-kitchen/fulfilment services

Funding

Stage

Acquired operating subsidiary; formerly late-stage venture-backed and publicly listed

Total raised

$1.7B

Latest round

Acquisition by DoorDash · Oct 2025

Latest amount

$3.7B

Acquisition by DoorDash

Oct 2025 · DoorDash

$3.7B

IPO

Mar 2021

Series H

Jan 2021 · Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Investments

$180M

Series G

May 2019 · Amazon

$575M

Series F extension

Nov 2017 · T. Rowe Price

$98M

Series F

Sep 2017

$385M

Series E

Aug 2016 · Bridgepoint

$275M

Series D

Nov 2015

$100M

Series C

Jul 2015 · Index Ventures and Greenoaks Capital

$70M

Series B

Jan 2015 · Accel

$25M

Seed / Series A

Jun 2014 · Index Ventures and Hoxton Ventures

$3.5M

People & investors

Leadership

Miki Kuusi

CEO of Deliveroo; Head of DoorDash International

Will Shu

Founder and former CEO

Eric French

Chief Operating Officer (pre-acquisition public-company leadership)

Carlo Mocci

Chief Business Officer (pre-acquisition public-company leadership)

Founders

Greg Orlowski

Co-founder

William (Will) Shu

Co-founder; former CEO

Investors

Durable Capital Partners

Work & culture

Careers materials emphasize customer and community impact, autonomy, ownership, learning, inclusion, engineering influence on product roadmaps and solving complex scale, logistics and machine-learning problems. UK technology roles commonly use a three-days-in-office hybrid pattern.

Work style

Hybrid

Compensation

Deliveroo advertises competitive location-based compensation; some roles may include annual cash bonus, sign-on bonus, equity or relocation support. Public UK role materials cite pension matching and benefits but do not provide a reliable company-wide salary range.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 5% matched pension contributions

Healthcare and optional family cover

Life assurance and discounted dental insurance

Annual paid volunteering day

Free Deliveroo Plus

Team lunches

HQ gym and discounted gym access

Flexible work-from-home equipment

Parental leave

Learning and development through RooLearn

Employee Resource Group events

Product & market

Pricing

Partner commissions/take rate plus customer delivery, service and small-order fees; optional Deliveroo Plus subscription; advertising fees and corporate-account pricing.

Differentiators

—Hyperlocal three-sided marketplace
—Dense restaurant, grocery and retail selection
—Proprietary logistics and dispatch technology
—Fast, trackable delivery proposition
—Combination of restaurant, grocery, retail, pharmacy and corporate ordering
—Deliveroo HOP rapid grocery/fulfilment proposition
—Large courier and merchant network

Technology

Ruby

JavaScript

React

GraphQL

Apache Kafka

MongoDB

TensorFlow

Nginx

Elasticsearch

Cloudflare

Buildkite

CircleCI

GitLab

Jira

Workday

Customers

Consumers ordering meals and groceries

Restaurants and takeaways

Supermarkets and grocery retailers

Pharmacies and other shops

Corporate employers using Deliveroo for Work

Approximately 178,000 restaurant, grocery and retail partners reported in H1 2025

Competitors

Just Eat Takeaway.com

Uber Eats

foodpanda

GrabFood

Gopuff

DoorDash

Wolt

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately £2.0–£2.1 billion annual revenue based on FY2024 reported revenue of £2.072 billion; H1 2025 revenue was £1.047 billion.

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Oct 2025

DoorDash completed its approximately $3.7 billion cash acquisition of Deliveroo; Deliveroo ceased to be an independent listed company.

Source

Shutdown

Feb 2026

DoorDash announced an orderly wind-down of Deliveroo operations in Qatar and Singapore, with platforms scheduled to remain live until 4 March 2026; approximately 85 combined roles were reported as impacted in a related Reuters filing.

Source

Shutdown

Feb 2026

DoorDash also announced exits from Japan and Uzbekistan under its Deliveroo and Wolt brands, and closure of Deliveroo's Bengaluru engineering hub, affecting approximately 102 employees, with some relocation or remote options.

Source

Shutdown

Aug 2024

Deliveroo closed its remaining Singapore cloud kitchens amid high operating costs and falling restaurant demand.

Source

Latest news

DoorDash to Wind Down Deliveroo and Wolt Operations in Four Countries

DoorDash · Feb 2026

DoorDash announced exits from Qatar, Singapore, Japan and Uzbekistan and limited operational changes, including UK engineering investment.

Rule 19.6(b) update to post-offer intention statements with regard to Deliveroo Limited

Reuters · Feb 2026

Reported approximately 85 roles affected by Qatar and Singapore closures and approximately 102 employees affected by Bengaluru engineering-hub closure.

DoorDash Completes Acquisition of Deliveroo

DoorDash · Oct 2025

The court-sanctioned scheme became effective and Deliveroo became part of DoorDash.

DOORDASH ARRIVES IN THE UK AS DELIVEROO ACQUISITION FORMALLY COMPLETES

Deliveroo · Oct 2025

Deliveroo communicated that its app and products would continue while benefiting from DoorDash scale, technology and resources.

Strong H1 performance with acceleration in growth and continued progress on profitability

Deliveroo plc · Aug 2025

H1 2025 revenue was £1.047 billion, GTV £3.789 billion and adjusted EBITDA £96.3 million.