Starship is the undisputed #1 leader in sidewalk autonomous delivery
We’re revolutionising last-mile logistics with robots that deliver groceries, hot food and industrial supplies.
Traditional methods of last-mile delivery are inefficient, unethical and expensive. We're changing that with autonomous robots.
When co-founder Ahti Heinla entered a NASA competition to build a robot to pick up dust samples on Mars, he was inspired to launch an earthbound mission…
Starship is founded on July 3rd 2014 and the first prototype of a delivery robot is created in August.
We stealth-launched the world’s first delivery robot, modestly named ‘6C’, beginning drive-testing in European cities.
By June a small fleet complete 5000km of driving, gradually learning the world around them.
By August our robots had encountered one million people.
Starship announces $17.2m in funding and pilots takeaway food deliveries in London.
Model ‘6E’ is released.
By September the robots had drive-tested in 100 cities and encountered 12 million people.
Starship launches its first commercial service in Milton Keynes, UK, delivering groceries via the Starship Deliveries mobile app.
We complete the world’s first commercial L4 autonomous driving in cities.
We launch our first commercial service on university campuses in the US, starting with George Mason University.
By November, our robots have completed five million road crossings.
COVID hits and Starship provides a vital contactless delivery service to students and communities worldwide.
By the end of August, Starship robots complete 500,000 deliveries.
Starship robots achieve break a record milestone of one million autonomous deliveries in January – followed by two million in October.
Starship partners with leading grocery retailer, Co-op, across multiple UK locations.
Multiple universities are added in the US, and service is launched in Tallinn, Estonia.
Starship announces a further $100m in funding and launches service in Finland via the Starship Food Delivery app.
In October, Starship announces groundbreaking partnership with Grubhub on US campuses, with the first plans to integrate robot delivery into a partner’s e-commerce platform.
Starship is named in Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.
We partner with Finland’s largest retailer, S-Group to deliver groceries nationwide.
Our robots are now serving over 50 college campuses in the US, and we install the world’s first wireless charging stations for robots.
Starship announces $90 million in funding.
Europe’s first wireless charging stations for robots are installed, and service expands to cover 100 S-Group stores in Finland.
In October, service is launched with Bolt Food.
Starship Technologies Raises $50M Series C
Starship expanded operations to Germany, Sweden, Chechia
Starship Technologies and Uber Eats Launch Autonomous Delivery Partnership
Starship Technologies passes 10 million autonomous deliveries with 3000 robots – the world’s largest fleet of its kind – operating across eight countries.
Team Starship is a diverse group of innovators, engineers and visionaries united by a shared mission to revolutionise last-mile delivery.
Launched in 2014 by Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, Starship Technologies is using autonomous robots to make hyper-local delivery more cost-effective, efficient, accessible and sustainable.
Our robots deliver items such as groceries, food takeaway and packages. They have completed over 10 million deliveries and can be found in over 300 service areas around the world.
Starship’s business headquarters are in San Francisco. Engineering is based in Estonia and R&D in Helsinki, with operational presence across eight countries: the UK, the US, Germany, Sweden, Czechia, Finland, Estonia, and Switzerland.
We work cross-functionally in global teams, blending expertise in robotics, AI and logistics to change the world, one delivery at a time. If this appeals to you, explore Careers.
More deliveries completed than all competitors combined.
