Hungerstation.com

What Hungerstation.com does

HungerStation is a Saudi Arabia-based, mobile-first food delivery and quick-commerce platform that operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delivery Hero SE, the Berlin-headquartered global food delivery company. The platform serves individual consumers across 115+ areas in Saudi Arabia, including Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Al Khobar, and Mecca, with restaurant meals, groceries, daily essentials, pharmacy products, and flowers. HungerStation is built on a multi-vertical super-app architecture: the core Restaurants vertical connects users with 55,000+ merchant partners and supports on-demand and scheduled delivery; HungerStation Market is a quick-commerce layer that dispatches groceries from a dark-store network in under 20 minutes; and additional verticals cover Supermarkets, Pharmacies, Flowers and More, and a Pickup service that offers a 20% order discount for self-collection. Supporting infrastructure includes a dedicated rider registration platform, a merchant onboarding portal, and the HungerStation Plus subscription with unlimited free delivery, exclusive discounts, and a gamified Rewards Challenge loyalty program. The company was founded in 2012 by Ebrahim Al-Jassim (founder/CEO) and Hossein Bukhamseen (co-founder/CTO) and is headquartered in Riyadh, with operational hubs in Jeddah and Dammam.

Name

Hungerstation.com

Legal name

HungerStation LTD.

Website

https://hungerstation.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

HungerStation is a Saudi Arabia-based mobile-first food delivery and quick-commerce platform serving 15 million active users across 115+ areas with restaurants, groceries, pharmacy, and flowers via 55,000+ merchant partners, operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delivery Hero SE.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Food Delivery

NAICS

Special Food Services (7223), Limited-Service Restaurants (722513)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Restaurant Meal Delivery Platforms & Aggregators (AFAIAMAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Restaurant Meal & Prepared Food Delivery (CRAFAFAB), Online Prepared Meals & Ready-to-Eat Delivery (CRAHAIAJ)

Keywords

• Online food delivery
• Quick commerce
• Restaurant marketplace
• Grocery delivery
• Subscription delivery

Headquarters

HQ city

Dammam

HQ country

Saudi Arabia

HQ region

Middle East

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Order Commission and Delivery Fees: HungerStation generates revenue through commissions charged to restaurant and retail partners on orders placed through the platform, along with delivery fees charged to consumers
2. Subscription Revenue (HungerStation Plus): Recurring subscription revenue from HungerStation Plus membership which provides unlimited free delivery and exclusive discounts to subscribers
3. Merchant Partner Fees: Revenue from onboarding and supporting restaurant and retail partners on the platform, with partners receiving access to customer base in exchange for commission on sales

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

HungerStation operates a mobile-first online food delivery and quick-commerce marketplace that connects Saudi Arabian consumers with 55,000+ restaurant and retail merchant partners across 115+ areas, including Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Al Khobar, and Makkah. The platform offers on-demand restaurant delivery alongside quick-commerce verticals for groceries, supermarkets, pharmacies, flowers, and self-pickup, supported by the HungerStation Plus subscription and a Rewards Challenge loyalty program. It generates revenue through merchant commissions, consumer delivery fees, and recurring subscription fees.

Product overview

HungerStation is a Saudi-based food delivery and quick-commerce platform fully owned by Delivery Hero, operating as a multi-vertical delivery service. The core offering is the Restaurants delivery platform connecting users with 55,000+ merchant partners across major Saudi cities. The platform has expanded into a unified super-app architecture with multiple integrated modules including HungerStation Market (quick commerce grocery delivery in under 20 minutes), Supermarkets (المقاضي), Pickup (self-pickup with discounts), Flowers and More, and Pharmacies. The ecosystem is enhanced by HungerStation Plus subscription (unlimited free delivery), a Rewards Challenge loyalty program, and dedicated partner platforms for delivery riders and merchants. The company serves major Saudi cities including Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Khobar, and Mecca, with delivery coverage across 115+ regions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• هنقرستيشن ماركت (HungerStation Market): Quick commerce service offering groceries and daily essentials delivered in under 20 minutes from dark stores.
• هنقرستيشن بلس (HungerStation Plus)

Products and services

• Restaurants (Delivery)

Quantifiable outcome

• 15 million active users
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Delivery HerocoreOthers · 18 June 2026HungerStation is fully owned by Delivery Hero SE, a Berlin-based global food delivery company. Delivery Hero operates platforms in over 70 countries and is the parent company providing strategic direction, technology, and resources to HungerStation as part of its Middle East and North Africa portfolio.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• elmenus: Egyptian food-discovery and delivery platform leveraging restaurant data for marketplace curation. Comparable as regional food delivery tech-stack with marketplace approach to merchants.
• Careem: UAE-born super-app (now Uber-owned) offering food delivery, grocery, and mobility across the Middle East including Saudi Arabia. Comparable as multi-vertical delivery platform targeting similar consumer base.
• Breadfast: Egypt-based grocery and breakfast delivery startup rapidly expanding its dark-store quick-commerce model. Comparable as emerging regional player in the same product category with similar 20-minute delivery playbook.

Direct peers

• Talabat: UAE-founded MENA-wide food and grocery delivery marketplace operating across the GCC including Saudi Arabia. Closest direct competitor, with overlapping restaurant-merchant model and quick-commerce ambitions.
• Jahez Group: Saudi-listed food delivery platform founded in Saudi Arabia with a very similar restaurant-merchant marketplace model. Head-to-head domestic competitor in the same geography, also owned partly by Delivery Hero historically.
• Ninja (Saudi Arabia): Saudi quick-commerce delivery startup that submitted a non-binding bid reportedly valuing Delivery Hero's MENA assets at ~€10B. Direct competitor in grocery/quick-commerce with overlapping dark-store model.

Broad incumbents

• Uber Eats: Global food-delivery marketplace from Uber, which separately pursued an acquisition of Delivery Hero valued at ~€12B. Operates as a broad incumbent category leader overlapping with HungerStation's offering.
• Noon: Middle East e-commerce marketplace (PIM- and Saudi Public Investment Fund-backed) with growing grocery/quick-commerce delivery arm. Comparable as a regional super-app pursuing multi-category commerce.
• Deliveroo: UK-headquartered food-delivery marketplace serving Europe, Asia and MENA. Comparable as a broad incumbent category operator historically affiliated with Delivery Hero's broader portfolio.
• Foodpanda: Asia-Pacific food delivery brand within Delivery Hero's portfolio with prior early investment in HungerStation per funding-round history. Comparable as sister brand sharing parent-company playbook.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/HungerStation
• Facebookfacebook.com/HungerStation
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hungerstation-com
• Instagraminstagram.com/hungerstation

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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