New funding round for delivery service gorillas
Tom Schmidtgen
| 14.12.2020
The delivery service Gorillas was able to raise 36 million euros in Series A. Two investors join the supervisory board.
Gorillas, the food delivery service, has raised €36 million in Series A funding. The investment round is led by American hedge fund Coatue. Coatue executives Daniel Senft and Bennett Siegel will become board members at Gorillas, Techcrunch
reports.Gorillas was founded just this May by Kağan Sümer and Jörg Kattner.
and advertises that it delivers groceries within ten minutes. So far, the service operates in Berlin and Cologne. The drivers are employed directly by Gorillas. A total of 150 employees work for the Berlin start-up. Anyone who orders from Gorillas sees a food offering at retail prices. A delivery fee of 1.80 euros is added to each order.
The money will be used for expansion. By June 2021, Gorillas wants to deliver in 15 cities in Germany and Europe. The first international destination is to be Amsterdam.
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