Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Meredith Sandland, CEO of Empower Delivery, a restaurant tech company that has raised $6 Million in funding.
Here are the most interesting points from our conversation:
- Unique Founding Story: Empower Delivery is a spin-out from Clustertruck, the largest and most profitable delivery kitchen in the US, providing an innovative restaurant order-to-fulfillment platform.
- Industry Insights: The restaurant industry is late to the digitization journey, unlike sectors like travel and retail. Empower Delivery offers a fully digital native experience from order to fulfillment.
- Target Market: Empower Delivery serves restaurants with significant delivery volumes, focusing on those doing hundreds of orders a day from a single location, rather than categorizing by SMB or enterprise.
- Thought Leadership: Meredith is a recognized industry thought leader, having written two books on restaurant delivery and hosting a popular podcast in the space.
- Competitive Landscape: Empower Delivery aims to transform delivery economics by eliminating third-party fees, making delivery more profitable for restaurants and affordable for consumers.
- Future Vision: Meredith envisions a future with increased delivery penetration, potentially transforming real estate and restaurant infrastructure in the US, similar to trends seen in other countries.