As of July 2021, Doordash was the most dominant player in the space with a 57% share of the US online food delivery aggregator market, ahead of global leader UberEats (23%) and legacy US market leader Grubhub (16%). The company, which hadn’t reached 50-state penetration until 2019, took over as market leader from Grubhub that year, and has since further eroded Grubhub’s market share (from  40% in August 2018). However, market share is fragmented across US major cities. DoorDash, for example, is dominant in its home market San Francisco, as well as in Houston and Washington, while UberEats leads in Miami and gained significant market share in Los Angeles through its acquisition of disruptor Postmates in 2020. New York is pretty evenly split among the three players, in terms of share of sales.

In the more niche meal kit segment, German company HelloFresh is the largest player in the US, with an estimated market share of almost 60% as at September 2020. The company’s market share growth in the US has mainly come at the expense of rival Blue Apron, whose US market share has declined significantly (from over 20% in January 2019 to roughly 9% by July 2020), amid diminishing customer loyalty. 

Subasket is the highest funded disruptor in the prepared meals segment. The company, which began operations as a meal kit provider, expanded into prepared meals in August 2020 followed by the launch of its full-service food delivery model in January 2021.  

Ordermark (more than USD 150 million) and Deliverect (~USD 87 million) are the highest funded disruptors. Both companies operate online ordering platforms for restaurants and have surpassed the USD 1 billion order value mark.