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Delivery Hero DoorDash Flink Gorillas Kağan Sümer

September 28, 2021

Grocery startup Gorillas is in line for a billion-dollar funding round despite spectacularly falling out with an investor last month. The company, which is based in Berlin but delivers to…

Jiffy plots ‘nationwide’ expansion after £20m investment

Dija DoorDash Gopuff Gorillas Jiffy Startup Vladimir Kholiaznikov

September 24, 2021

Finance Independent retailers Suppliers

Jiffy has secured £20.4 million in funding amid concern that the online grocery market is being taken over by delivery titans. It marks a major jump since the startup’s initial…

Delivery giant DoorDash to offer on-demand alcohol

Alcohol DoorDash Emily Feinstein Getir Partnership to End Addiction Weezy

September 21, 2021

Multi-billion food firm DoorDash has taken a further plunge into the grocery market as it prepares to offer alcohol deliveries in 20 US states. The announcement, certain to trigger a…

Weezy dismisses ‘abuse’ fears to gain alcohol licence

Weezy exploring sale of on-demand grocery business

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Dija DoorDash Gopuff Gorillas Weezy

September 15, 2021

Online grocery might be about to winnow its crowded field as Weezy considers a sale with investment bank Evercore. The startup was founded in London in 2019, but competition intensified…

DoorDash ditches $400m Gorillas investment

Dija DoorDash Gorillas Kağan Sümer

August 23, 2021

US delivery giant DoorDash has abandoned talks with Gorillas after the grocery startup went behind its back in an unsuccessful bid for a larger investment. The Telegraph reports that the…

Gorillas has raised almost $1 billion in its series C round of funding, the highest amount for a non-listed grocery delivery business in Europe.

Gorillas funding round to be on ‘worst possible terms’

DoorDash Gopuff Gorillas Kağan Sümer

August 6, 2021