Failed 2016

    Take Eat Easy

    Belgian-French food-delivery pioneer ran out of cash before reaching scale. The Series B that didn't close became one of Europe's most-cited startup failure post-mortems.

    Founded → Closed

    2013 → 2016

    Funding Raised

    $16M

    Industry

    Food Delivery

    Country

    France

    Full Analysis

    Brussels/Paris-based Take Eat Easy raised €16M from Rocket Internet and DN Capital to compete in European food delivery. By mid-2016, the company needed another €15M to extend runway but had been negotiating with potential acquirers and investors for months. Founder Adrien Roose published one of the most-shared startup failure post-mortems on Medium, detailing how the team chased a deal that never closed while burning cash. Final shutdown in July 2016 with all 160 employees losing their jobs. The post-mortem remains a canonical European startup-failure read.

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