E-commerce is still hot, especially if you’re a food and meal kit delivery startup. Maple, Gooble, Home Chef, Plated, Hello Fresh, Blue Apron are just a few of the seriously well-funded startups disrupting the subscription commerce category by solving our “what’s for dinner tonight” dilemma. Overall funding to e-commerce soared 136% in 2015 but does the recent acquisition of Gilt Groupe at a less than unicorn price signal trouble ahead for startups and investors (that have pumped $30.3 billion into 2,013 deals over the past 5 years)?
The current generation of e-commerce startups in New York City remain fiercely undeterred.
