What Foodmandu does

Foodmandu Pvt. Ltd. is Nepal's first online food delivery platform, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Kathmandu. The company operates a two-sided marketplace connecting individual consumers with more than 300 partner restaurants across five Nepal cities: Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan, Butwal, and Bhaktapur. Customers place orders through the Foodmandu website, native iOS and Android mobile applications, or by telephone; payment is collected in cash upon delivery, with no online payment infrastructure disclosed. Foodmandu generates revenue through a combination of per-order delivery charges (Rs. 20 base plus Rs. 20 per kilometer for restaurant orders; Rs. 100 flat for Foodmandu Fresh) and marketplace commissions from restaurant partners.

The company's core product surface has been extended beyond restaurant delivery into adjacent services: 'Foodmandu Fresh' provides grocery and daily essentials delivery at a flat delivery fee, and the 'Happy Lunch' program offers discounted lunch options from participating restaurants between noon and 3 PM. Foodmandu also operates a content platform called 'Tales of Flavour', a blog covering food articles, restaurant features, recipes, and company updates. Marketing channels span organic social media across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok, alongside email newsletters and app store presence. The company has received funding from True North Associates (2016) and Team Ventures Pvt. Ltd. (February 2020), with no public revenue, GMV, or headcount-growth disclosures available after 2020.

Foodmandu's legal entity is a privately held Nepal-registered private limited company (Foodmandu Pvt. Ltd.), with no parent company, no subsidiaries, no disclosed institutional ownership beyond the two funding rounds, and no public listing. The founder, Manohar Adhikari, serves as CEO. The organization has scaled from fewer than 20 employees in its early years to 101–250 currently. Notably absent from the disclosed technology stack are any partner-facing APIs, SDKs, AI/ML capabilities, or third-party integrations, positioning Foodmandu as a relatively traditional consumer internet platform with limited developer or enterprise surface area.

Name

Foodmandu

Legal name

Foodmandu Pvt. Ltd.

Website

https://foodmandu.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Foodmandu is Nepal's first online food delivery platform, founded in 2010, connecting individual consumers with 300+ restaurant partners across Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan, Butwal, and Bhaktapur via website, mobile apps, and phone ordering, with a grocery sub-brand Foodmandu Fresh.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Food Delivery Marketplace

NAICS

Food Service Contractors (72231)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Restaurant Meal Delivery Platforms & Aggregators (AFAIAMAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Restaurant Meal & Prepared Food Delivery (CRAFAFAB), Online Fresh Food Specialists (Produce/Meat/Seafood) (CRAHAIAF)

Keywords

• Online food delivery
• Restaurant marketplace
• Food ordering platform
• Grocery delivery service
• Delivery mobile app

Headquarters

HQ city

Kathmandu

HQ country

Nepal

HQ region

Asia

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Delivery Charges: Foodmandu charges delivery fees from customers. For Foodmandu Fresh orders: Rs. 100 per order. For restaurants: Up to 1 Km: Rs. 20, After 1 Km: Additional Rs. 20/km.
2. Restaurant Partner Commissions: Foodmandu generates revenue by partnering with restaurants and taking a commission on orders placed through the platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Foodmandu operates an online food ordering and delivery platform that connects consumers with hundreds of partner restaurants across Nepal (Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan, Butwal, Bhaktapur). Customers browse menus and place orders via website, iOS/Android mobile apps, or telephone for delivery to home or office. A supplementary service, Foodmandu Fresh, handles grocery and daily essentials delivery with a flat Rs. 100 delivery charge.

Product overview

Foodmandu is a food delivery platform in Nepal operating as a multi-channel service with a consumer website, iOS and Android mobile apps, and telephone ordering. The core platform connects users with hundreds of partner restaurants for food ordering and delivery. A supplementary service called Foodmandu Fresh handles grocery and daily essentials delivery. Additional features include a Happy Lunch discounted lunch promotion and Tales of Flavour, a company blog covering food content. The platform covers cities including Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan, Butwal, and Bhaktapur.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Foodmandu Fresh: Fresh grocery and daily essentials delivery service operated by Foodmandu.

Products and services

• Foodmandu Core Platform Online food ordering and delivery platform connecting customers with hundreds of partner restaurants across Nepal. Users browse restaurants, view menus, place delivery orders via website, mobile app, or telephone for home or office delivery. Service available in Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan, Butwal, and Bhaktapur.
• Foodmandu Mobile App

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

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Restaurant Partners (various restaurants)coreOthersFoodmandu partners with hundreds of restaurants across Nepal including 4 Corners - Detroit Style Pizza, Fire And Ice Pizzeria, The Workshop Eatery, Le Trio, Burger Shack, Koto Restaurant, Kathmandu Marriott, and many others. These restaurants list their menus on the Foodmandu platform and receive deliveries through Foodmandu's delivery network.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Swiggy: Swiggy is India's leading food delivery platform, including Instamart for grocery quick-commerce. Directly comparable as a multi-vertical (food + grocery) delivery platform with similar restaurant-partner marketplace model and quick-commerce adjacency that mirrors Foodmandu's Foodmandu Fresh extension.
• Zomato: Zomato is one of India's largest restaurant discovery and food delivery platforms with adjacent South Asian operations. Comparable as a public-market benchmark for marketplace commission take rates, restaurant partner onboarding, and two-sided network dynamics relevant to Foodmandu's trajectory.
• Uber Eats: Uber Eats is a global food delivery platform with operations across Asia-Pacific. Comparable as a tech-led marketplace with deep logistics expertise and rider-fleet economics that represents the type of well-capitalized competitor that could enter Foodmandu's Nepal market.
• Deliveroo: Deliveroo is a UK/global food delivery platform with strong restaurant-partner marketplace positioning. Comparable as a benchmark for two-sided marketplace economics, restaurant commission structures, and category expansion (grocery/essentials) relevant to Foodmandu's business model evolution.
• Foodpanda: Foodpanda, owned by Delivery Hero, operates across multiple Asian markets including a former presence in Nepal. Directly comparable as a third-party restaurant food delivery marketplace with similar commission-plus-delivery-fee revenue model, two-sided consumer/restaurant platform, and rider-based fulfillment.
• Meituan: Meituan operates Meituan Waimai, China's dominant food delivery service with strong restaurant-partner network. Comparable as a global leader in restaurant delivery marketplace mechanics, dispatch optimization, and grocery quick-commerce extensions.

Regional players

• Glovo: Glovo (owned by Delivery Hero) operates multi-category delivery across emerging markets in EMEA and Asia. Comparable as a multi-vertical (food + grocery + convenience) delivery operator in similar GDP-per-capita markets to Nepal, providing a relevant benchmark for category extension.
• Pathao Food: Pathao is a Bangladeshi super-app offering ride-hailing, delivery, and payments, including a food delivery vertical. Comparable to Foodmandu as a South Asian multi-city food delivery marketplace serving similar demographics with similar commission economics in an emerging-market context.
• GrabFood: GrabFood operates across Southeast Asia as part of Grab's super-app. Comparable as a multi-country food delivery vertical leveraging a broader logistics and payments ecosystem — a model Foodmandu could pursue within Nepal or regionally if it expands beyond its current five-city footprint.

Direct peers

• Bhojdeals: Bhojdeals is a Nepal-based online food and grocery ordering platform operating in Kathmandu and other Nepal cities. Comparable as a direct local competitor offering similar restaurant delivery and daily essentials services in overlapping Nepal geography.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/foodmandu
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCDf_rtJmXYSC08spCjoGDlQ/featured
• Facebookfacebook.com/foodmandu
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/foodmandu
• Instagraminstagram.com/foodmandu
• TikToktiktok.com/@foodmandu

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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