Type of business | Private company |
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Type of site | Online marketplace |
Founded | 2013 |
Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
Area served | United States |
Founder(s) | Joe Ariel Trevor Stow Vanessa Torrivilla Joel Gillman |
Industry | Online food ordering |
Employees | 20 |
URL | www |
Launched | 2013 |
Current status | Active |
Goldbelly is an online marketplace for food products. Customers can order products from restaurants, bakeries, delis, etc. and have them shipped across the United States.[1][2] The ordered food sometimes requires preparation and cooking.[3]
Founded as "Goldbely" by Joe Ariel, the company began its operation from a townhouse in Noe Valley in San Francisco with a four-person team of Ariel, Trevor Stow, Vanessa Torrivilla and Joel Gillman.[4][5][6][7] The site was accepted into Y Combinator in 2013.[8] Time magazine named Goldbelly one of the 50 Best Websites of 2013.[9] In 2013, Goldbelly closed on $3 million seed funding led by Intel Capital.[10][11] The Nuns of New Skete, Eastern Orthodox bakers of cheesecakes are the highest rated sellers living the Consecrated life.[12]
In 2017 the company moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City.[13] In October 2018, the company changed their name from Goldbely (with one L) to Goldbelly (with two Ls), raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Enlightened Hospitality Investments, the fund formed by Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, and had Danny Meyer join the company's advisory board.[14]
In 2021, Goldbelly announced that they raised $100 million in new funding. As of May 2021, 850 restaurants sell food on the Goldbelly platform, 400 of which joined after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.[15]
According to one review, as some of the food is frozen, the experience can sometimes differ from the taste customers get at the restaurant.[16]