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DoorDash is an American company that operates online food ordering and delivery under the ticker symbol DASH. It holds 56 percent of the food delivery market in the United States, the largest share of any platform, plus 60 percent of the market for convenience deliveries.
DoorDash was founded by Tony Xu, Andy Fang, Stanley Tang and Evan Moore, who launched a website called PaloAltoDelivery.com in Palo Alto, California, in January 2013. The company incorporated as DoorDash in June 2013 after receiving $120,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator for a 7 percent stake.
DoorDash went public in December 2020 through an initial public offering that raised $3.37 billion. In September 2023 it moved its stock listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq, joining the Nasdaq-100 index on the 18th of December 2023.
DoorDash faced lawsuits after reports that customer tips were used to cover the guaranteed minimum payment owed to drivers instead of going directly to them. In 2022 the company reached a tentative $100 million settlement tied to related worker misclassification claims, and in 2025 it agreed to pay around $17 million over misleading tipping practices.
DoorDash has acquired Scotty Labs in 2019, Caviar from Square for $410 million in 2019, Chowbotics in 2021, the Finnish company Wolt for more than $8.1 billion in 2021, Bbot in 2022, the UK's Deliveroo for $3.9 billion in 2025, and the booking platform SevenRooms for $1.2 billion in 2025.
As of April 2026, DoorDash operates directly in the United States, including Puerto Rico, plus Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Through its subsidiaries Deliveroo and Wolt, it also operates across Europe and in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.