Starship Technologies

Market context

Starship is one of the clearest real-world proofs that sidewalk delivery robots can operate at commercial scale across multiple geographies and customer environments.

• Serve Robotics - comparable profile - peer: Sidewalk Delivery Robotics
• Syrius Technology - stack adjacency - stack: Robot Oem
• Mushiny - stack adjacency - stack: Robot Oem

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Products

• e-model

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Funding

• 2025-10-15 - Series C - $50M - Starship Technologies raises $50M Series C for U.S. delivery expansion - Starship Technologies completed a $50M Series C funding round, led by Plural, to expand its fleet to over 12,000 robots by 2027. - source: starship.xyz
• 2022-01-25 - Venture debt - $58.2M - Starship Technologies receives EUR 50M EIB financing - Starship Technologies received EUR 50 million in European Investment Bank financing to expand its autonomous delivery robot fleet. - source: eib.org

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Investors

• Coefficient Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-15
• European Investment Bank - Lead - Government / Public - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-01-25
• Karma.vc - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-15

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Timeline

• 2026-02-25 - Partnership - Starship Technologies and Just Eat announce ground-breaking partnership in major expansion of robot delivery - Starship Technologies and Just Eat announced a corporate partnership to expand autonomous robot delivery in the UK. The first joint service launched for Just Eat takeaway customers in Sunderland as part of the partnership rollout. The announcement positioned… - source: starship.xyz
• 2025-12-11 - Deployment - Starship Technologies reports one million grocery deliveries completed in Finland with S Group - Starship Technologies reported that S Group grocery-delivery robots in Finland had completed one million orders in under three years. The company said robot deliveries accounted for as much as 20 percent of online grocery orders in the covered operations.… - source: starship.xyz
• 2025-11-20 - Partnership - Starship Technologies and Uber Eats launch autonomous delivery partnership - Starship Technologies and Uber Eats announced an autonomous-delivery partnership spanning Europe and the U.S. The companies said the first deployment would go live in the UK before year-end, with broader expansion planned afterward. This is one of the… - source: starship.xyz

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Team

• Valentin Naidja - SVP Revenue - Leads revenue execution for Starship's autonomous delivery robot services.
• Anneli Aljas - VP Finance - Supports finance leadership for Starship's commercial autonomous delivery operations.
• Ahti Heinla - Co-founder, CEO, CTO - Leads Starship's autonomous sidewalk-delivery robot technology and operating business.

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Relations

• Just Eat - Food Delivery Platform Partner - Starship Technologies and Just Eat partnered to expand autonomous robot delivery in the UK.
• Uber Eats - Food Delivery Partner - Starship Technologies and Uber Eats partnered on autonomous delivery in Europe and the U.S.
• Bolt - Delivery Platform Partner - Starship Technologies and Bolt partnered on robot-powered grocery delivery.

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Deployments

• Completed Deliveries - 1 million grocery deliveries - 2025-12-11 - S Group - grocery delivery - Starship reported one million grocery deliveries completed in Finland with S Group. - source posture: Company Disclosed - source: starship.xyz
• Completed Deliveries - More than 9 million completed deliveries - 2025-11-20 - Starship reported more than 9 million completed autonomous deliveries on November 20, 2025. - source posture: Company Disclosed - source: starship.xyz
• Operating Robot Fleet - More than 2,700 operating robots - 2025-11-20 - Starship reported a fleet of more than 2,700 operating delivery robots on November 20, 2025. - source posture: Company Disclosed - source: starship.xyz

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