{"id":182138,"date":"2024-02-06T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/starship-technologies-raises-90m-as-its-sidewalk-robots-pass-6m-deliveries"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:23:07","slug":"starship-technologies-raises-90m-as-its-sidewalk-robots-pass-6m-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/starship-technologies-raises-90m-as-its-sidewalk-robots-pass-6m-deliveries","title":{"rendered":"Starship Technologies raises $90M as its sidewalk robots pass 6M deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starship-technologies-raises-90m-as-its-sidewalk-robots-pass-6m-deliveries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sidewalk delivery robot services appear to be stalling left and right, but a pioneer in the concept says it is profitable and has now raised a round of funding to scale up to meet market demand. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starship.xyz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starship Technologies<\/a>, a startup out of Estonia that was an early mover in the delivery robotics space, has picked up $90 million in funding as it works to cement its position at the top of its category.<\/p>\n<p>This latest investment round is being co-led by two previous backers: Plural, the VC with roots in Estonia and London that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/01\/22\/plural-the-vc-led-by-founders-pulls-together-a-new-432m-fund-to-back-european-startups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> a new $430 million fund last month; and Iconical, the London-based investor backed by Janus Friis, the serial entrepreneur who was a co-founder of Skype, and who is also a co-founder of Starship itself.<\/p>\n<p>It brings the total raised by Starship to $230 million, with previous backers including the Finnish-Japanese firm <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/03\/01\/starship-technologies-raises-another-42m-to-fuel-the-growth-of-its-fleet-of-self-driving-delivery-robots\/#:~:text=Starship%20Technologies%2C%20one%20of%20the, since%20its%20last%20financial%20infusion.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NordicNinja<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/01\/25\/starship-technologies-picks-up-e50m-from-the-eus-investment-arm-to-expand-its-fleet-of-autonomous-delivery-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Investment Bank<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/08\/20\/starship-technologies-raises-40m-crosses-100k-deliveries-and-plans-to-expand-to-100-new-universities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morpheus Ventures<\/a> and TDC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidewalk delivery robot services appear to be stalling left and right, but a pioneer in the concept says it is profitable and has now raised a round of funding to scale up to meet market demand. Starship Technologies, a startup out of Estonia that was an early mover in the delivery robotics space, has picked [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}