Food ordering app TinyOwl, which launched its services in Hyderabad, Pune, Bangalore and Gurgaon in May, has now launched its services in Chennai. With this, the app is now available in 6 cities including Mumbai. According to TinyOwl, it will look it expand to a total of 50 cities by the end of this year. In February, TinyOwl raised Rs 100 crore in a series B round of funding from Matrix Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. Active only in Mumbai at that time, the company had said it would use the funds to expand to other cities. The platform had also raised $3 million in a series A round of funding from Nexus Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital earlier in last year. Founded in 2014 by Harshvardhan Mandad and four other founders, TinyOwl‘s services allow customers to order food for delivery or takeout via its iOS and Android apps. It offers two products; ordering of food from nearby restaurants and ‘TinyOwl HomeMade’ for ordering food from local chefs. Payments for the platform can be made either through credit/debit card, payment portals like Paytm or cash on delivery. As of now, the platform claims to take around 3,000-5,000 orders everyday and cover over 4,500 restaurants. Dishes feature: Last month, TinyOwl launched a new feature called ‘Dishes’ that let users order specific dishes or preset meals from certain restaurants, in a single tap. The new feature addresses a vital design problem with food ordering apps: people don’t know what to get and…
