Skipthedishes
“Can Canada's dominant food delivery platform retain gig workers and restaurant partners through superior embedded payments and financial tooling built on Stripe?”
Founded2012
HQWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
FoundersJosh Simair, Chris Simair, Dan Simair, Jeff Adamson, Andrew Chau
Total raisedAcquired for £66.1M (~$83M USD) by Just Eat in 2016
Latest roundAcquisition by Just Eat, 2016
IndustryMarketplace / Food delivery
The story
Founded in 2012 in Saskatoon, SkipTheDishes scaled as Canada's leading food delivery marketplace before being acquired by Just Eat in 2016 for £66M. After Just Eat merged with Takeaway.com in 2020, Skip was rebranded and integrated into the global JET platform. The company's most notable embedded-finance pivot was replacing a legacy payments stack with Stripe Connect in 2019, and then partnering with Stripe and Visa Direct in 2020 to offer real-time 'Fast Cash' payouts to independent courier contractors — a deliberate move to improve gig-worker retention.
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2012
Founded in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as an online food delivery marketplace.· pivot
2016
Acquired by UK-based Just Eat for £66.1 million (~$83M USD).· acquisition
2019
Migrated payments infrastructure to Stripe, replacing a legacy payments platform.· banking
2020
Just Eat merged with Takeaway.com; Skip adopted Takeaway.com's orange branding and became part of Just Eat Takeaway.com.· pivot
2020
Launched SkipTheDishes Fast Cash — near-instant payouts to couriers via Stripe Instant Payouts and Visa Direct.· banking
2020
Revenue reached CAD $581.9 million as pandemic accelerated food delivery demand.· pivot
The stack
1 layer disclosed in Skipthedishes’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Accounting gap: minor