Gorillas expands into the USA

A year ago, the name Gorillas was almost unknown, but today the start-up is a unicorn and it's hard to imagine the German food delivery market without it. Now the Berlin-based company is launching its service in the United States.

Gorillas has lost management staff in recent months, but that won't stop the Berlin-based start-up for long: Now the food delivery service is venturing across the pond and plans to launch in New York later this month. In doing so, it's taking on US.American competitors like Doordash and Uber.

It's launching in Brooklyn, but Gorillas wants to expand quickly from there to other boroughs. By the end of the summer, the service could also launch on the East, Central, and West Coasts in the States, a spokesperson told Business Insider.

Gorillas raised $290 million in March and is already preparing for its next round of funding. Earlier this year, the company became a Unicorn. Gorillas is expanding to more and more European countries at a rapid pace. This month, the offer will also be available in Italy, currently Gorillas can be found in the Netherlands, France, the UK and Germany.

The start-up was founded in 2020 by Kagan Sümer and Jörg Kattner, who left earlier this year. In addition, COO Felix Chrobog left the startup just this May. The company works - unlike its competitors - with its own fleet of bike couriers and not with so-called gig workers who shimmy from job to job.