New capital for alpaca delivery service

With reusable packaging and cargo bikes, Alpakas aims to be a sustainable delivery service. Vorwerk Ventures is now investing in the Berlin start-up.

The Berlin delivery service Alpakas has completed a new round of financing, as the start-up announced on Linkedin announced. The lead investor in the round is the venture fund Vorwerk. In the past, Vorwerk Ventures has already invested in similar concepts at Hellofresh and Flaschenpost. The existing investors Foodlabs and MVPF Factory have also invested again. This time, business angels Verena Pausder, Philipp Pausder and Martin Enderle are also investing in the Berlin start-up. The exact amount of the investment is not known.

Antony Roczek, Tomy Eitner and Simon Chorzelski founded Alpakas in 2021. The delivery service now offers 500 products in its online store, including household goods as well as food. The founders rely on a reusable deposit system for their delivery service. The food is packaged sustainably, for example in nets or glass jars, and then transported to customers using cargo bikes. After delivery, the containers are then returned and reintroduced into the delivery cycle. In this way, the start-up is trying to be more sustainable than conventional delivery services. "Shopping at Alpakas should feel like going to the weekly market: sustainable, seasonal and local products, close relationships with the producers and organic quality," says Chorzelski about the online store.