Serving Up Smarter Catering
Corporate catering is stuck in the past—slow to book, rigid in offerings, and often overpriced. Juggling multiple restaurants, menus, and delivery logistics turns a simple lunch into a time-consuming project. For restaurants, traditional catering means extra staff, manual coordination, and inconsistent demand.
CaterDash is changing the game with their catering marketplace that streamlines how companies and events order food. By connecting users with top local restaurants through a single platform, they remove the friction from catering—no phone calls, no spreadsheets, no stress.
The Vancouver startup’s full-stack platform lets customers place curated, multi-restaurant catering orders in seconds, with clear pricing and built-in logistics. Businesses save up to 50% in cost and coordination time. On the other side, restaurants receive high-volume, low-effort orders powered by automation, smart routing, and AI-assisted planning—with no additional staff required. CaterDash also offers white-label catering portals to help partners capture more direct demand.
Setting the Table for Scale
What they’ve done: Since launching in March 2024, CaterDash has delivered thousands of meals for over 250 companies, including Microsoft, EY, BMO, Amazon, PepsiCo, RBC, and Arc’teryx. They now cater over 90% of tech events in Vancouver and have expanded to Toronto and Calgary. Their client base spans tech giants, universities, hospitals, and major events like Vancouver Startup Week, Toronto Tech Week and the Vancouver Entrepreneurs Forum.
Why NVBC: CaterDash joined the 2025 NVBC Competition, presented by Innovate BC, to refine their strategy, gain exposure, and connect with top-tier investors and mentors. After bootstrapping their way to profitability and product-market fit, they’re ready to scale—and the competition offers a launchpad for that next phase. It’s also a unique chance to spotlight BC’s emerging foodtech scene on a national stage.
Up Next: CaterDash is laser-focused on dominating Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary by the end of 2025. With plans to expand into U.S. cities in 2026, the team is growing its vendor network, deepening its presence in the tech and university sectors, and targeting $1M in ARR by year-end. They’re hiring across sales, ops, and engineering to fuel their next stage of growth.
Recipe for Resilience
The best advice the CaterDash team follows? Never give up. Shreyansh Manchanda, Founder and CEO, has spent over seven years in restaurant tech, experimenting with group-based ordering models—from student traffic tools to subscription meal delivery—before landing on the winning formula with CaterDash. The road to product-market fit wasn’t a straight line, but persistence paid off. What may look like an overnight success is actually years of iteration, failure, and growth. The takeaway: stay patient, stay hungry, and don’t quit—your breakthrough might be just one pivot away.
Meet The Team
Shreyansh Manchanda, CEO & Co-Founder
Fun Fact: Shreyansh can take a power nap anywhere, anytime and always wake up exactly after 20 minutes.
Company Cheatsheet:
City: Vancouver
Founded: January 2024
Sector: Restaurant Tech
