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May 4, 2023

Gorillas cofounder raises €1.5m for virtual restaurant franchise

The company develops delivery-first food brands that are licensed out to restaurants

Speedy grocery company Gorillas was scooped up by Getir in a rescue deal in December — and some of its cofounders and executives are already onto new things.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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