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Starship

Self-driving robotic delivery vehicles

Starship logo
501-1000 employees
  • B2B
  • Transport
  • Robotics
  • Automation
  • Delivery
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA

Company mission

To redefine convenience at home, school and work by automating on-demand delivery.

Top investors

19% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

The popularity of food and drink deliveries is soaring, resulting in the adaptation to provide single-item deliveries such as coffee, alcoholic beverages, and milk bottles. However, the high frequency and small size of these deliveries have resulted in manual delivery fleets becoming unsustainable, presenting an excellent opportunity for autonomous deliveries to step in.

Starship develops networks of autonomous robots that deliver food and packages across small distances, to combat the unsustainability of delivery driver fleets. Originally trialled on student campuses, the networks allow consumers to access local delivery through their mobile app, without high costs and long wait times. By automating this last-mile delivery, Starship tackles the problems that accompany on-demand deliveries, such as difficulties scaling and non-sustainability.

Starship now operates across the globe, and its robots have completed over four million deliveries. Interest in the company is abundant, and it will likely continue to receive opportunities for new launches and expansion as time goes on. Substantial funds raised by the company should allow it to meet this ever-increasing demand.

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Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company values

  • We learn with each journey
  • Data guides the way
  • We work as one team
  • We climb over curbs
  • We always deliver

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Feb 2024

$90m

LATE VC

Jan 2021

$17m

LATE VC

Total funding: $189.2m

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Leadership

They were Chief Technical Architect at Skype and founded targetapi.com. They are also the owner of Ambient Sound Investments.