Dine.Direct

World's First Community-Powered Online Ordering & Food Delivery Company

https://wefunder.com/dinedirect

Total raised on Wefunder: 279950

Total investors: 139

Quick facts

  • 🏆 Founded by Award Winning Chef/ Restaurant Owner & Tech Pioneers
  • ⚙️ Just launched- friendly, robot delivery!
  • 🍷 Leadership heavyweights from Apple, Microsoft & California Restaurant Association
  • 💸 $160 Billion global market is ripe for platform / technology disruption.
  • 💡 Innovative business model - rewards restaurant founders & community members to fuel growth
  • 💰 Exclusive for round: INVESTOR REWARDS!

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Dine.Direct

World's First Community-Powered Online Ordering & Food Delivery Company

INVESTMENT TERMS
Future Equity
$6M valuation cap
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Investor Panel

Claudius interviewed Dine.Direct on February 19, 2021. Play Video
Claudius Mbemba
CTO @ useneu.com. Alum: Techstars, Microsoft, OSU. Speaker & Tech Entrepreneur advising early-stage founders.
Strengths
says, "Dine.Direct is operating in one of the few markets that really benefited from COVID. They're poised to be the best partner to small businesses when it comes to restaurant delivery and takeout. Compared to their competitors, UberEats & DoorDash - which have scale yet are burning cash, Dine.Direct is a lower cost to all parties and has better conversion rates. They're built around and leveraging a community model that's new and unique to this space."
Advice
says, "Given the strong investment in the community aspect, Dine.Direct would do well to leverage its community for scaling. By incentivizing customers to refer others into the community and rewarding both for conversion they'd be poised for significant growth. Additionally, given the success of their web-based menu, consider offering it as a stand-alone SAAS service to restaurants. It could be another revenue stream. "

What Investors Say

Chief Officer of Economic Mobility, All Home
LEAD INVESTOR
Invested $6,000 this round
The food delivery ecosystem requires further disruption. As it currently stands, restaurants are beholden to the large “food app” companies. Rather than maximizing profits and cultivating relationships with their customers, restaurants are increasingly forced to operate as subcontractors to the food app companies, who in turn control the customer experience and eat into the already thin profit margins of a restaurant. Restaurants deserve better. They deserve the tools to connect directly with their guests, nurture these customer relationships, and be paid fairly for the love and care they put into the art of making food. Dine.Direct is the answer for restaurants - internationally. Using the Dine.Direct platform, restaurants can increase the percentage of revenue they keep by nearly 30% since Dine.Direct charges no more than $1 per transaction. Dine.Direct’s management team has the right vision, and they are trying to solve the right problem. They also have the right experience to execute on this vision. Ralph Burleson and his team have decades of experience successfully creating technology solutions and building community on the ground in some of the world’s most challenging regions. For investors, the opportunity is enormous. In the United States, Mexico and South America, the three initial markets for Dine.Direct, there are more than 1.2 million restaurants processing hundreds of millions of orders per year for an estimated $73.5B in 2022. If Dine.Direct were to capture 2% of the market, processing a modest 4 orders per day, annual revenue would exceed $30M, with enormous upside in these markets and globally.
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