Postmates was founded in 2011 in San Francisco, and is 8% of the U.S. market of food delivery.
The transaction was approved by the Board of Directors of Uber and could be announced today, July 6.
In September Postmates was estimated at $ 2.4 billion. Then he received $ 225 million from private investors.
Uber also planned to buy Grubhub through its subsidiary Uber Eats, but refused the deal — Grubhub has been bought by Dutch company Just Eat Takeaway.com NV for 7.3 billion dollars.
The market product delivery konsolidiruyutsya and growing rapidly because of the epidemic of the coronavirus.
Mergers and acquisitions, IPO
