Gorillas is now a unicorn

The start-up has raised more than 200 million euros in a financing round. This means that it is valued at over one billion euros faster than any other start-up in Germany.

Just nine months after its launch, the online supermarket Gorillas is now worth one billion euros. In a recent financing round, the Berlin-based company was able to convince investors to invest 245 million euros. This makes Gorillas a German unicorn in record time - no German start-up has ever achieved such a valuation so quickly.

Several prominent VCs have invested. The backers include e-commerce giant Tencent from China, DST Global and the Coatue fund. Existing investors such as Atlantic Food Labs from Berlin are also joining the financing round.

The idea of founder Kagan Sümer (33) is very simple: customers order their food online and the start-up delivers it to their home within a few minutes. The special thing about the implementation is that the drivers officially only need ten minutes from ordering to delivery, meaning they can pack and deliver the food in no time at all. The start-up, which was founded in 2020, is currently represented in Cologne, Munich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, London and the Netherlands.