DoorDash – statistics & facts
Founded in Palo Alto, California, by four Stanford University students as PaloAltoDelivery.com in 2013, DoorDash has come a long way since its founders started taking phone calls and delivering food on campus. Today, the company sits atop the online food delivery market in the United States with a market share of roughly 29 percent, more than 56 million monthly active users worldwide, and a gross order volume that surpassed 100 billion U.S. dollars in 2025.
From campus startup to suburban powerhouse
While the pandemic benefited many players in the online food delivery market, DoorDash was particularly successful in outpacing the competition and building lasting customer engagement in the United States. The company's success was due to its focus on delivering to consumers in suburban and rural areas that were largely underserved by food delivery giants. The strategy came to fruition relatively fast. By early 2019, the company's market share surpassed that of key rivals in the U.S. market, Grubhub and Uber Eats. The following year, DoorDash had raised some 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in funding, making the company one of the largest recipients of funding in the online food delivery sector worldwide. Despite years of operating losses and the highly competitive industry it operates in, the start-up was only seven years old when its stock market debut valued the company at a whopping 72 billion U.S. dollars in December 2020.
Wolt, revenue rockets, and the road to profit
Beyond its success in its home market, DoorDash vied for consumer reach overseas. In 2022, DoorDash completed its acquisition of Finnish company Wolt, a key player in the European food delivery market. In a deal worth more than eight billion U.S. dollars, it was the second-highest-valued e-commerce startup acquisition as of mid-2025. With that global footprint, DoorDash recorded annual revenues approaching 14 billion U.S. dollars in 2025, up from approximately 885 million dollars in 2019. The company also processed over three billion total orders that year. A long-awaited milestone arrived in 2024, when DoorDash posted its first full-year net income, a trend that accelerated in 2025.
Staying ahead in a crowded field
DoorDash's lead isn't just about order volume. The company's DashPass and Wolt+ subscription services counted more than 35 million monthly subscribers by the end of 2025, though rival Uber One still edges ahead on that metric. In the U.S., DoorDash's customer satisfaction score matched Grubhub's in 2025, while Uber Eats scored slightly higher. Meanwhile, global app downloads have steadied at roughly 24 million per year after peaking during the pandemic. With profitability now in hand and competition from Uber Eats intensifying on both order value and subscriber counts, DoorDash's next chapter will likely hinge on whether its international operations can replicate the dominance it built at home.
