{"id":9746,"date":"2025-03-13T00:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wonder-buys-tastemade-for-90m\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T00:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:35:22","slug":"wonder-buys-tastemade-for-90m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wonder-buys-tastemade-for-90m\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Buys Tastemade for $90M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Wonder Acquires Tastemade for $90 Million<\/h2>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to The Wall Street Journal, food delivery startup Wonder has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/wonder-acquires-tastemade-for-its-latest-quest-to-make-a-mealtime-super-app-3e86ca41?mod=latest_headlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">acquired media company Tastemade<\/a> in a deal worth approximately $90 million. Tastemade, which was founded in 2021, is a producer of food, travel, and home videos, and operates multiple free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This acquisition provides Wonder with access to a comprehensive range of assets, including a content studio, production company, and advertising business. The company plans to utilize these resources to increase brand awareness and reach a broader audience.<\/p>\n<h2>Expansion of Wonder&#8217;s Services<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The acquisition represents the latest move in Wonder&#8217;s strategy to develop a mealtime &#8220;super app&#8221;. The company&#8217;s founder and CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/11\/24\/entrepreneur-marc-lore-on-founder-mode-bad-hires-and-why-avoiding-risk-is-deadly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Lore<\/a>, who previously served as the head of e-commerce at Walmart, aims to transform Wonder into an AI-powered app that not only suggests meal options but also automatically places orders from Wonder kitchens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following this acquisition, users may soon have the ability to place delivery orders for dishes they see being prepared by chefs on Tastemade&#8217;s streaming channels.<\/p>\n<h2>Past Acquisitions and Funding<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wonder&#8217;s previous acquisitions include <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/09\/29\/wonder-group-blue-apron-acquisition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Apron<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/11\/12\/just-eat-takeaway-sells-grubhub-to-wonder-for-650-million\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grubhub<\/a>. To date, the startup has secured a total of $1.6 billion in funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/12\/food-delivery-startup-wonder-acquires-media-company-tastemade-for-90m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder Acquires Tastemade for $90 Million According to The Wall Street Journal, food delivery startup Wonder has acquired media company Tastemade in a deal worth approximately $90 million. Tastemade, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[270,3112,3113,3114],"class_list":["post-9746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-in-brief","tag-marc-lore","tag-tastemade","tag-wonder"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/tc-disrupt-2022-marc-lore-5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}