DoorDash, Inc.
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Acquisitions
4
Total Acquisitions
$13.4B
Disclosed Deal Value
2025
$1.2B
Added restaurant reservation, CRM, and marketing software.
Strengthened DoorDash's merchant software layer beyond delivery transactions.
Closed June 13, 2025.
2025
$3.7B
Expanded DoorDash's global marketplace footprint.
Added international scale and substantially increased reported employees.
Closed October 2, 2025.
2022
$8.1B
Added a major international local-commerce platform.
Expanded DoorDash into Europe and other international markets.
Became a key international growth engine.
2019
$410M
Expanded restaurant selection and delivery presence in key urban markets.
Added merchant relationships and helped DoorDash compete more directly in premium restaurant delivery.
Integrated into DoorDash's marketplace strategy.
DoorDash is growing through five connected paths: marketplace order growth, DashPass engagement, grocery and retail expansion, advertising and merchant software, and international scale through Wolt and Deliveroo. SevenRooms gives DoorDash a stronger software layer for restaurants, while Deliveroo adds a large international marketplace base.
DoorDash operates a significant, complex three-sided digital marketplace. It generates revenue by simultaneously extracting a lucrative 'take rate' (commission) from the restaurant, charging the consumer delivery and service fees, and taking a aggressive 'spread' before paying the independent contractor (the Dasher). Its considerable, ultimate financial engine is 'DashPass'—a lucrative, high-margin monthly subscription that locks the consumer into the DoorDash ecosystem, essentially guaranteeing prominent, high-frequency ordering volume.
In 2021, DoorDash executed an absolute blockbuster $8.1 billion acquisition of Wolt, a highly successful Finnish delivery company. This instantly gave DoorDash absolute dominance in 23 European and Asian countries, allowing them to finally fight UberEats on a global scale.
In 2019, DoorDash bought Caviar from Square (Block) for $410 million. Caviar specialized in highly expensive, ultra-premium restaurants that refused to work with normal delivery apps. Buying Caviar gave DoorDash access to massive, high-margin orders from wealthy urban consumers.
Yes, in 2022, they acquired Bbot, a highly successful startup that makes 'QR Code' ordering software for restaurants. This was highly strategic, allowing DoorDash to make massive profits when a customer orders food while physically sitting inside the restaurant, not just for delivery.
In 2019, DoorDash bought Scotty Labs, a startup focused on remote-controlled and autonomous vehicles. DoorDash aggressively realizes that paying human drivers is their biggest expense, and they are heavily investing in technology to eventually replace humans with self-driving delivery robots.
Massive Antitrust fears. Wall Street frequently begs DoorDash to merge with Instacart to create an absolute 'Everything Delivery' monopoly. However, the US government under the Biden administration is highly aggressive against tech monopolies, virtually guaranteeing such a merger would be legally blocked.