iFood

ifood.com.br

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

iFood is a Brazilian technology ecosystem and marketplace connecting consumers with restaurants, markets, pharmacies, pet shops and delivery workers. It is controlled by Prosus through Movile and is Brazil’s dominant food-delivery platform.

Primary product

Consumer and merchant marketplace/app for on-demand food, grocery, pharmacy and pet delivery, supplemented by logistics, advertising, restaurant software and fintech products (iFood Pago and iFood Benefícios).

Founded

2011

Headquarters

Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil

Team size

8,000–9,000 direct employees; company announced plans to exceed 8,600 after adding 1,100 employees in 2025–26

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Software development / technology

Sub-industry

Food technology, online delivery marketplace and fintech

Offices

Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Business model

Marketplace commissions from restaurants and merchants

Delivery and logistics services

Advertising / retail media for brands and merchants

Restaurant software and digitalization services

Fintech, payments, credit and restaurant banking

Corporate meal and food benefits

Funding

Stage

Acquired / privately held subsidiary of Prosus; previously late-stage venture-backed

Total raised

$592M

Latest round

Acquisition of remaining Just Eat stake · Aug 2022

Latest amount

$1.8B

Acquisition / secondary transaction

Aug 2022 · Prosus

$1.8B

Series F

Nov 2018 · Innova Capital; Naspers

$500M

Series E

Jun 2015 · Movile

$50M

Series D

Sep 2014 · Just Eat Takeaway.com

$5.7M

Series C

Feb 2014 · Movile

$2M

Series A

Aug 2011 · Warehouse Investimentos

$1.6M

People & investors

Leadership

Diego Barreto

Partner and CEO

Bruno Henriques

COO; CEO, iFood Pago

Ana Gabriela Oliveira Lopes

CMO / Partner and VP

Henrique Iwamoto

Chief Investment Officer

Cintia Tachibana

CFO, iFood Marketplace

Sam James

VP of Ads

Founders

Eduardo Baer

Co-founder

Felipe Ramos Fioravante

Co-founder; former CEO

Guilherme Bonifacio

Co-founder

Patrick Sigrist

Co-founder

Investors

Innova Capital

Just Eat Takeaway.com

Warehouse Investimentos

Work & culture

Public company materials describe an AI-first, high-performance and ownership-oriented culture emphasizing autonomy, experimentation, diversity, collaboration and large-scale customer impact. iFOS is a flexible hybrid model: leaders determine team cadence, offices remain available for collaboration, and hiring is generally limited to people living in Brazil.

Work style

Flexible

Visa sponsorship

Compensation

Public signals indicate competitive market compensation, flexible benefits, home-office support and development subsidies; no reliable public salary bands were identified.

Benefits

Flexible Beneflex points package

Meal, food, pharmacy and cultural benefits through iFood Benefícios

Medical and dental insurance

Life insurance

Home-office allowance

Language-course subsidy

Professional-development incentives

Mentoring and Prosus Academy learning access

Product & market

Pricing

Consumers generally pay item prices plus merchant-set delivery/service fees; merchants typically pay marketplace commissions and may purchase advertising, logistics and software services. Fintech and benefits products use transaction, subscription, interchange, financing or merchant-fee economics.

Differentiators

—Very large Brazilian network and market share
—Integrated marketplace, logistics, payments, credit, benefits and restaurant-software ecosystem
—Scale of data and AI applied to recommendations, logistics, fraud and operations
—Broad category coverage beyond restaurants
—Strong Prosus/Movile ownership and investment capacity
—Retail-media advertising business integrated with transactional demand

Technology

Artificial intelligence and machine learning

Toqan internal AI platform

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems and APIs

Java/Kotlin

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Bazel

Gradle

Data engineering and MLOps

Customers

Consumers in Brazil

Restaurants and food-service merchants

Supermarkets and grocery merchants

Pharmacies

Pet shops

Delivery workers

Brands and advertisers

Corporate employers and meal-benefit users

Competitors

Rappi

DoorDash

PedidosYa

Uber Eats

99Food

Aiqfome

Delivery Much

Alelo / Ticket / Pluxee / VR in benefits

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately US$991 million reported for the fiscal year ending March 2022; current public third-party estimates vary widely and are not sufficiently reliable to provide a current range.

Signals & risks

Shutdown

Nov 2022

iFood ended operations in Colombia, citing business strategy and a decision to focus on priority markets, principally Brazil.

Source

Acquisition

Aug 2022

Prosus acquired Just Eat Takeaway.com’s remaining 33% stake for approximately €1.8 billion, taking full control of iFood.

Source

Acquisition

Nov 2025

iFood acquired Advolve, an AI performance-marketing company, to accelerate its Ads and retail-media strategy.

Source

Other

Jul 2025

Media reported advanced negotiations to acquire Alelo for about R$5 billion; this was reported as talks, not a completed transaction.

Source

Latest news

Prosus’s iFood acquires Advolve to accelerate growth of its Ads business

Prosus · Nov 2025

iFood acquired AI marketing company Advolve to scale its retail-media and Ads business.

Brazil's iFood app announces $3.1 billion in investments

Reuters · Aug 2025

iFood announced R$17 billion of direct investment in Brazil through March 2026, including technology, traffic, repeat purchases, operational expansion and credit; it expected to exceed 8,600 employees.

iFood in talks to buy Alelo for R$5bn

Valor Econômico · Jul 2025

Valor reported negotiations for a potential Alelo acquisition, which would expand iFood into Brazil’s meal-benefits market; completion was not established.

iFood accelerates restaurant digitalization with the acquisition of three startups

Brasil 247 · May 2025

iFood announced acquisitions of Opdv, Saipos and 3S Checkout to build an all-in-one restaurant-management ecosystem.

iFood to Shut Down Operations in Colombia in November

Bloomberg Línea · Oct 2022

The company announced its Colombia exit effective November 21, 2022, citing strategic focus on priority markets.

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