Gorillas co-founder exits the company

Jörg Kattner was part of Gorillas' high-flying success for just one year, and now the company has announced his exit.

The Berlin-based start-up Gorillas has been on the road to success for months: just at the end of last year, it raised 36 million euros in a financing round. Now one of the founders is leaving the food delivery service. Gorillas announced Jörg Kattner's departure on LinkedIn and thanked him for his work, which helped Gorillas to grow.

Kattner himself is quoted as saying: "I am leaving this rocket in firm hands, looking forward to new adventures and also to building a company from scratch again." From the company's environment Gründerszenethat Gorillas Kattner's growth would also be too fast. The 33-year-old started his career at Rocket Internet, from there he went to Hellofresh and became COO of the Hellofreshgo project in 2018 until his move to Gorillas.

Gorillas was initially founded by Kağan Sümer under the name Getgoodys, with Kattner only joining at the beginning of 2020. The start-up's big promise is to deliver groceries ordered via app within ten minutes. Gorillas currently has 800 employees, but this figure is soon to rise to 1,000. Seven major cities in Germany are to be supplied before the end of this quarter. Sümer himself is highly committed to his start-up and owns 23 percent of the company.