Twelve months ago, Flipdish, the Irish food-ordering platform, achieved unicorn status after raising $100 million in a funding round led by Chinese conglomerate Tencent. This round was on top of a $48.5 million investment from Tiger Global Management in February 2021 and gave the company a valuation of $1.25 billion. At the time, the company, founded in 2015 by brothers Conor and James McCarthy, announced plans to increase its headcount to 700. Like many tech companies over the past six months, those plans were dialed back, and the company later engaged with its staff about a round of redundancies. New…

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