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March 25, 2021

On-demand grocery delivery startup Gorillas raises €245m and becomes a unicorn, nine months after launch

Investors are in a frenzy over 10-minute grocery delivery startups.


Inside a Gorillas dark store

Berlin-based on-demand grocery delivery startup Gorillas has just raised a whopping €245m in a Series B, bringing the company’s valuation to $1bn only nine months after launching. No German startup has ever achieved this feat.

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