uk - headquartered Starship ventures has raised $ 25 m in a funding round which included Airbnb co - founder mark Blecharczyk and Skype founding engineer mark Tallinn . The round also saw ex - Airbnb business development lead Lex grant appointed as Starship 's CEO , ahead of a planned expansion campaign to deploy the company 's autonomous , last - minute delivery capabilities at scale across the US 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.