• Pop Meals

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2017

  Dahmakan is a Malaysian full-stack food delivery startup that creates and delivers its own meals using cloud kitchens. Its platform centers on an operating system that controls nearly every step of operations, from recipe development to last-mile delivery, and it operates satellite hubs located around cities to be closer to customers. Instead of delivering from restaurants, Dahmakan offers about 40 menu options each week drawn from a database of 2,000 dishes, selecting menus based on customer data and market research. Customers pick from a schedule of delivery times and menus are tailored using preferences and spending-habit data. The company was launched by former Foodpanda executives and was the first Malaysian startup to participate in Y Combinator. Financially, Dahmakan has raised $18M in a Series B, bringing total funding to about $28M. The startup positions its vertically integrated model as a way to reduce delivery costs and serve growing demand for food delivery in Southeast Asia. dahmakan is a Malaysia-based cloud kitchen and food delivery startup. The company operates cloud kitchens and provides food delivery services. It has announced a $5 million Series A funding round. The round was backed by both existing and new investors, and the article specifically names Partech Partners and China’s UpHonest Capital. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, prior rounds, or use of proceeds. Dahmakan operates an end-to-end food delivery service that cooks all dishes in-house and dispatches them to customers on scheduled delivery windows. The company markets healthier meal options and offers a Prime package for bulk meal purchases as well as business catering. On the tech side it has invested in logistics and AI, building the Dahmakan Intelligent Operator System (DIOS), a self-learning system to manage fleet and demand. Dahmakan says it is unit profitable and reports month-to-month sales growth of about 20% ongoing since launch. The startup was founded in 2015 by a trio of ex-FoodPandas (co-founder Jessica Li among them) and is based in Kuala Lumpur. It plans to use new funding to develop technology and explore expansion across Southeast Asia, with Indonesia and Thailand under consideration. Dah Makan operates a subscription-leaning, full-stack meal delivery service with fixed lunch and dinner menus and optimized delivery routes to control quality and costs. The service accepts last orders 45 minutes before time slots and pushes bulk credit packages (e.g., 5/20/50 meals for 99/379/999 MYR). The company processes more than 1,000 daily orders and says it is profitable on every order at the unit level, though marketing and overhead are not included in that claim. Dah Makan Prime accounts for the majority of current revenue. The team plans heavy investment in technology—routing, clustering, and rider-allocation learning—to improve operations. Management is targeting expansion into other parts of Southeast Asia before year-end while focusing this round on Kuala Lumpur rather than a Malaysia-wide roll-out.

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