Ding Dong
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Ding Dong (dingdongapp.io) was a Stockholm food and grocery delivery startup founded by Anders Carlsarv, Louis Kaufman and Nadine Kolbe. It delivered food and groceries from two dark stores in Stockholm, raising SEK 3 million (~$350,000) from local Swedish angel investors, with West Quad Ventures as a backer. In April 2022, the company was acquired and merged into Vembla, a Stockholm grocery-delivery startup.
02 / Ding Dong FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
Ding Dong did not survive independently: in April 2022 it was acquired and merged into Vembla, a Stockholm grocery delivery service. Vembla itself subsequently went out of business, which PitchBook records as the end of the combined operation. The company raised a total of $727,124.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Bankruptcy
Ratsit (Bolagsverket data, opened): Swedish grocery e-commerce DingDongApp AB (org. 559315-3561, Täby; Anders Carlsarv) has status 'Konkurs avslutad 2023-12-18' (bankruptcy concluded).
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.
Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Ding Dong was founded in Stockholm by Anders Carlsarv, Louis Kaufman and Nadine Kolbe, delivering food and groceries from two dark stores; it raised SEK 3 million (~$350,000) from local Swedish angel investors.
- 02
On April 6, 2022, Vembla, a Stockholm grocery delivery startup, acquired Ding Dong and merged it into its own operations.
- 03
Vembla, which had raised $3.24 million, subsequently went out of business, ending the combined operation. No reliable loss figure was disclosed, so no loss amount is recorded.