US-headquartered Starship Technologies has raised $25m in a funding round which included Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk and Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn. The round also saw ex-Airbnb business development lead Lex Bayer appointed as Starship's CEO, ahead of a planned expansion campaign to deploy the company's autonomous, last-mile delivery robots at scale across the London and Europe.
London-headquartered Starship Technologies has raised $25m in a funding round which included Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk and Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn. The round also saw ex-Airbnb business development lead Lex Bayer appointed as Starship's CEO, ahead of a planned expansion campaign to deploy the company's autonomous, last-mile delivery robots at scale across the US and Europe.