Starship Technologies picks up ?50M from the EU's investment arm to expand its fleet of autonomous delivery robots
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the European Investment Bank
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Morpheus Ventures
Pitchbook
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Alastair Westgarth
Doordash
Milton Keynes
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Westgarth said.“Grocery
Thomas Östros
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Summary
Prices for the service can vary by city and location, but as an example a service that it provides to grocery chain Coop in Milton Keynes is made for a flat fee of 99 pence.In the last two years, Starship’s name has been coming up a lot as a delivery partner helping companies get food order to customers at a time when delivery drivers were in shorter supply, people wanted to move around less, and generally come into less contact with humans. People order Starship deliveries via the startup’s iOS and Android apps.Today the campus deployments are a majority of Starship’s business — some 70% — but the signs are pointing to a likely shift, Westgarth said.“Grocery will be larger in a year to 18 months,” he said.
As said here by Ingrid Lunden