Seamless (formerly SeamlessWeb) is an
online food ordering service that allows users to order food for delivery and takeout from restaurants through their web site or suite of mobile apps. Seamless was launched in 1999 by Jason Finger and Paul Appelbaum as SeamlessWeb, providing companies with a Web-based system for ordering food from restaurants and caterers. Starting in 2005, Seamless was made available to the individual users and they currently partner with over 12,000 restaurants, serve over 4,000 companies, and have over 2,000,000 members in the
United States and in
London. The service is also available for personal orders in
New York,
Boston,
Philadelphia,
Washington DC,
Miami,
Chicago,
Houston,
Austin,
Seattle,
San Francisco, and
Los Angeles. They were acquired by
Aramark in April 2006. On June 8, 2011,
Spectrum Equity Investors made a $50 million minority investment in Seamless and the company has now been spun out of Aramark into an independent entity.