Last year, foodjunky was a startup trying to gain traction for its 21st century food ordering platform. It had big ambitions and a small customer base, mainly in downtown Detroit. This year, that customer base is much wider.
"In January, we were in one state," says Travis O Johnson, co-founder of
foodjunky. "Now we're in nine states. We’ve been growing pretty rapidly."
The 1-year-old company's platform helps large groups make orders from restaurants, simplifying the error-prone process of one person relaying lots of food orders to another over a phone line. Check out this video of how foodjunky works:
Foodjunky currently has a few hundred restaurants in its network, mainly in the Midwest and Texas.
"We will be hitting 1,000 pretty soon," Johnson says.
Foodjunky, which graduated from
Bizdom last fall, has hired two people over the last year, and is currently looking to hire a software developer. The startup employs a staff of six people.
Those number could grow quickly as foodjunky gets ready to close on a seed round. It originally aimed for $250,000 but became over-committed. Johnson hopes to close on a bigger round later this year. He also hopes to hit $1 million in revenue next year.
"We should have a majority of the U.S. states covered," Johnson says.
Source: Travis O Johnson, co-founder of foodjunky
Writer: Jon Zemke
Read more about Metro Detroit's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at SEMichiganStartup.com.
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