“Can Canada's dominant food delivery platform retain gig workers and restaurant partners through superior embedded payments and financial tooling built on Stripe?”
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.
Skipthedishes processes payments through Stripe Connect and Stripe.
Skipthedishes was founded by Josh Simair, Chris Simair, Dan Simair, Jeff Adamson and Andrew Chau and is founded in 2012, headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Skipthedishes has raised Acquired for £66.1M (~$83M USD) by Just Eat in 2016 in total (latest round: Acquisition by Just Eat, 2016).
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