Social Dining Service VizEat Scoops Up Rival EatWith
Photo Caption: Image from a VizEat cooking and eating class in Madrid, Spain.
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VizEat's business has gotten stronger with this acquisition. But it still faces an uphill slog to expand its total addressable market beyond travelers to include locals looking for activities, especially in Asia.
Paris-based startup VizEat has acquired its U.S.-based rival EatWith to create what it calls the world's largest social dining platform.
Both companies offer marketplaces of food-themed events, enabling people to pay for immersive food experiences such as in-home dinners, cooking classes, and market tours.
The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.
But the move appears to be a disappointing exit for investors in EatWith, founded in 2012 by Israelis Guy Michlin and Shemer Schwartz and is now based in San Francisc
