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 company is developing an autonomous car that will be able to drive itself on public roads without human intervention.
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.