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PedidosYa sold 70% of its equity to the German company Delivery Hero

June 30, 2014
Delivery Hero, a German online food ordering company with more than 60,000 restaurants worldwide, acquired 70% of the shares in PedidosYa—a company incubated by the CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship)—in June 2014.

Founded by Ariel Burschtin, a graduate of the Systems Engineering program; Álvaro García, a graduate of the Systems Science program; and Ruben Sosenke, a graduate of the Information Technology Analyst program, PedidosYa is an online service that allows users to quickly find restaurants that offer delivery and place orders via the Internet.

It currently operates in nine countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Uruguay.

The network includes 12,000 restaurants in more than 300 cities.