Top Delivery Startups 2023

Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada.

Rappi is a mega high growth, Series B, consumer tech StartUp looking to be the everything store of Latin America. We are a marketplace that connects users who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and more with contractors who fulfil them. Think of Rappi as a Doordarsh meets Delivery meets Instacart. We are venture backed by top VCs in the world including Sequoia, DST, Andreessen Horrowitz and YCombinator. Management consultant skills are highly valued and one of the founders and three of the company's top leaders are former top tier management consultants. We are across Argentina, Brasil, Mexico, Colombia and are aggressively growing in these markets and all throughout LatAm.

We deliver groceries in 10 minutes through a network of optimized micro-warehouses or 'dark stores' that we build across cities in India. We're currently doing hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales with best-in-class unit economics - come join us!

Breadfast is Egypt’s leading online grocery brand. We operate a fully vertically integrated supply chain, delivering 3,500 SKUs on-demand in under 60 minutes. Our selection includes a range of freshly baked bread, coffee, fruits, vegetables, eggs, dairy, meat and poultry, alongside a range of CPG staples designed to serve a household’s daily and weekly needs.

Nash makes it easy for businesses to offer same-day delivery. We do this by building business workflows on top of delivery APIs (like Doordash, Uber, Skipcart). For example, a local dry-cleaning business can start offering pickup and dropoff service at a customer’s desired time without operating their own fleet.

Yummy started as the first food delivery app in Venezuela, and expanded into multiple categories including ridesharing, groceries, pharmacy and tickets for events. After doing over 700,000 monthly orders the business Yummy is now becoming an e-commerce enabler in Venezuela and Bolivia through payment infrastructure for merchants and a fintech for consumers.

Curri provides on-demand, last-mile logistics for construction and adjacent industries with our nationwide fleet of cars, trucks, and flatbeds.

Krave Mart is the Rappi for Pakistan. We’re an online grocery store that delivers within minutes.

FoodCourt (CoKitchen) is Africa's leading virtual restaurant company. We've served over 350,000 meals in the last 12 months & our goal is to make good food and quick convenience goods more accessible across Africa, through virtual restaurants & dark stores. Understanding the unique problems of the African on-demand/ food delivery market, we've taken a full-stack approach by controlling different areas of the value chain such as technology, production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience while giving us unlimited flexibility for growth. Learn more at www.getfoodcourt.com or email henry@cokitchen.ng

We are building Gorillas of Indonesia. Bananas is a grocery delivery startup based in Jakarta, Indonesia where you can order groceries and get it delivered in minutes. We do this by building tech-enabled micro-hubs (referred to as "dark stores") near high-density residential neighbourhoods in order to be able to deliver close to being instant.

beU delivery is an on-demand food delivery service in Africa. We offer a great selection of local restaurants and door-to-door food delivery that allows the customer to have their favorite food from the comfort of their home or office. We are the #1 food delivery service in Ethiopia, deliver at significantly cheaper rate than our peers, making food delivery affordable for the mass. We plan to expand our services to new markets and eventually become the super app of Africa.

QUIK is building the operating system for business in LATAM. On one side, powering users on QUIK Super App, where they can order foods, groceries and goods and get them on 30 minutes, while paying using any currency they want and logistics enterally handled by QUIK team. On the other side, powering business with QUIK Pro, giving them a complete set of software to manage their business and online presence, with their own website, inventory management, logistics solutions, all in perfect sync with QUIK Super App, increasing sales and customer satisfaction.

Bakool is the first group buying platform for fresh produce in Indonesia’s tier 2 cities. Our agent network allows customers to get produces cheaper than retail, delivered

Ole brings fashion with delivery and return on-demand. Customers use our app to order clothes from nearby stores, try them at home while the driver is waiting, take only what they like and return to the driver what they don't. We already have $35k monthly GMV, growing 35% MoM. What’s unique about our business is our average order value which is 7X higher than typical on-demand business. While their average order is $30, ours is $200, which is why we are already positive in unit economics.

Lightmeter is a managed delivery service for sales emails that boosts reply rates while removing any need for maintenance and troubleshooting. It works with existing sales tools like Apollo, HubSpot, and Salesforce. We make sure outbound emails are actually delivered instead of going to spam, solving email deliverability and warming challenges in one managed service.

Dropezy - delivering groceries in 15 minute in Indonesia. Today, our vision is to revolutionize Indonesia's $116Bn grocery landscape by making e-Groceries fast, convenient, affordable and accessible for all through strategically placed dark-stores. We replicate they typical Indonesians offline purchasing behavior by enabling them to purchase daily needs online in smaller quantities, at higher frequencies, 24/7 whilst ensuring operations efficiency. Midnight cravings? House party but got no beer? Or simply annoyed with the headache of buying daily needs offline? We got you! Simply select products, make payment, and receive it instantly - It's that EaZY #Crazyfast

Local market is a traditional wet market that consist with 200 - 1000 merchants who sell groceries located in every residential area. We digitize all these merchants into our apps and provide personal shoppers. So every household can buy groceries from multiple merchants at one local market in one single order. There are 16.000 local markets in Indonesia with 8.000.000 merchants inside.

ShipBlu provides Amazon level logistics for eCommerce companies in MENA - one of the fastest growing eCommerce markets in the world. As it stands, the majority of delivery providers are still using pen and paper to manage delivery and fulfillment operations, leading to 5x the rate of failed deliveries and 3x the operating costs as compared to global benchmarks. At ShipBlu, we've built an infrastructure that handles every aspect of delivery and fulfillment operations. We've also added some unique features that tie in various business functions, allowing us to realize significant efficiencies compared to other players. Our platform is managed by ShipBlu AutoPilot - our collection of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms that constantly make operational predictions and decisions to reduce costs, meet delivery constraints, and refine our operating assumptions. Designed by ShipBlu's CTO, Abdelrahman is currently completing his PhD at Brown University where he explores the applications of AI and ML in optimization problems. We built a nationwide delivery network in Egypt in about 2.5 months, kicking off operations on Aug 1st, 2021. In under 4 weeks, we have signed on over 40 merchants, and when those merchants fully go live in October, we will be making over $40k in MRR.

We partner with top Bay Area restaurants to bring you prepared meals that stay fresh all week. Meals are delivered weekly and ready in minutes. Since starting in 2020, we’ve delivered 100K+ orders and are backed by a16z, Y-Combinator, Goodwater, Decent Capital, and other top investors.

Nino Foods creates and operates cloud kitchen brands in India for the premium market. We've grown 13x in 2 years from 800 monthly orders to >25000. The founding team has an MBA from INSEAD, and led online revenue for Disney and Conde Nast. We're focusing on premium because it is where all the profits lie, and it represents 50% of a $10bn industry. At Nino, we're building category leading food brands with crazy amounts of customer love.

LogisticsOS provides route optimization and fleet dispatching algorithms as services to let any last-mile company offer same-day and next-hour delivery. We are the creators of the route optimization engine that both FedEx and USPS are using on production today. We increase profit per delivery by 15% and optimize thousands of deliveries in seconds using 30X faster algorithms.

Sanvivo builds a multisided platform to enable customers to order medications, get pharmaceutical advice, and book health services at local pharmacies in Europe. Just like Shopify for pharmacies. Sanvivo gives pharmacies software to take, fill and schedule delivery for online orders. We also bring instant demand through integrations with 3rd party consumer delivery companies. Almost all pharmacies in Europe are, by law, local 1-person businesses. And they are not ready for online orders. Regulatory changes require pharmacies to take and fill e-prescriptions (roll-out Jan-23), but many have no way to do this online today. Sanvivo uses technology to give local pharmacies digital superpowers, enabling them to combine fast supply and high-quality consultation with state of the are e-commerce solutions.

truemetrics helps logistics companies to find their customer's faster. By detecting and mapping entrances, we help GLS, a key logistics company in Europe, save 2-10 minutes on each delivery. The way couriers navigate is broken. “You Have Arrived At Your Destination!” — or so Google Maps thinks. In reality, the way couriers navigate is broken: No parking, hard-to-find entrances, and labyrinth-like apartment and office complexes can turn the last meters of delivery into a time-consuming puzzle. truemetrics provides parking positions and entrance locations to enable faster drop-offs. Our data is generated by analyzing sensor data from drivers' smartphones, allowing truemetrics to identify precise parking and entrance locations, thereby simplifying the last meters of delivery.

Orchata is an app where you can get groceries & daily essentials delivered in 20 min in Latin America. All the way from fresh fruits, meat, alcohol, pharmacy, groceries, snacks and top e-commerce brands with no substitutes and at supermarket prices. We launched the service in Mexico, are making money in every order with $1.8M USD annual revenue with positive economics LATAM grocery is a huge US$ 451B market that is moving online fast. Orchata goes further with all-in-one software for darkstores around the city. We are following the Billion USD playbook that Instacart/Gopuff built in the US.

Pop is building Asia’s leading food brands through a network of cloud kitchens and tech-enabled QSR outlets. Funded with over $28m by Y Combinator and leading tech investors from Silicon Valley, Europe and Asia, we are expanding rapidly across Asia.

We're a food delivery logistics and culinary company that empowers restaurants to tap into the explosive world of food delivery. We build delivery-native, multi-restaurant virtual kitchens that allow our restaurant partners to expand their delivery footprint to reach new customers. Our fully staffed kitchens handle cooking, delivery, and fulfillment on behalf of restaurant partners so they can focus on what they do best.

We are building the next-generation virtual pharmacy for India. Our high-tech automated pharmacy stores enable us to deliver fast with a great patient experience. Anyone can set up a virtual pharmacy on WhatsApp or App using our EMR App, APIs, and SDK in minutes. We have B2B partners, including India's biggest EMR providers, teleconsultation apps, and hospital chains. We have a mobile app where users can place orders, track them in real-time, and keep their health records safe. Our personalized AI health assistant is connected to your government health ID, which answers all your questions and recommends relevant products and services.

TyltGO provides brick & mortar retailers and e-commerce brands with same-day delivery under their own brand name.

We are building the Marketplace for On Demand Delivery. We provide an all-in-one Delivery OS that brings all orders into one place, dispatches these orders to the best available delivery service, and provides the tools to manage the post-purchase experience. The founding team started Habitat Logistics, where we powered delivery for restaurants, and delivered over 1M orders all on our own software.

Flirtey is the leading drone delivery service. We are reinventing the on-demand economy with our network of flying robots for last mile delivery. Our mission is to save lives and change lifestyles by making delivery instant. Flirtey’s drone delivery service is faster, more efficient and the ultimate customer experience. We’re rapidly growing our team and achieving a record number of historic firsts in the drone delivery industry, advancing autonomy, safety systems and advanced delivery technology. If you are interested in having your goods delivered via Flirtey, or joining the team that is transforming the delivery industry, visit www.flirtey.com Recent Company Milestones: - October 2017 – Announced a partnership to launch the first automated external defibrillator (AED) drone delivery service in the U.S. - January 2017 – Raised $16 million in Series A funding from top Silicon Valley investors. - August 2016 – Launched the world’s first commercial pizza-by-drone delivery model in partnership with Domino’s. - July 2016 – Conducted the first fully autonomous, FAA-approved drone delivery from a store to a home in partnership with 7-Eleven. - June 2016 – Completed the first fully autonomous, FAA-approved ship-to-shore drone delivery in collaboration with Johns Hopkins. - April 2016 – The Flirtey drone used to make the first FAA-approved delivery in the U.S. accepted into the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, alongside the Space Shuttle Discovery and the Wright Flyer. - March 2016 – Conducted the first fully autonomous, FAA-approved urban drone delivery in the U.S. - July 2015 – Completed the first FAA-approved drone delivery on U.S. soil in collaboration with NASA Langley Research Center. - Summer 2015 – Graduated Y Combinator. - 2013 – Founded the first drone delivery service in the world.

At Justo, which means “fair” in Spanish, we aim to give restaurant owners access to technology that will help them increase their sales, at a more fair price. We provide restaurants their own online store, we teach them about advertising and marketing, and we automate the process for them. We also offer last-mile delivery service. We are in Chile, Peru. Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador and Costa Rica Our goal is to create a service that is profitable for restaurants, for Gigsters and for us.

Duffl delivers snacks to college students in 10 minutes. We use data to wholesale high demand/high margin products and deliver them directly to our customers using electric scooters and a student-driven workforce. We've launched at: UCLA, USC, UCSB, UC Berkeley, UofA, ASU, TSU and UT Austin. Join us on a journey of empowering students to better serve each other! www.jobs.duffl.com

Symple is building a logistics platform for field service & delivery teams. Our platform is re-shaping the $30Bn field service management market by powering real-time collaboration and communication across massively distributed service teams. Symple's mission is to modernize the way over 400M mobile-service workers complete their daily tasks, share information and interact with their customers -- which means touching, in some capacity, every businesses on the planet.

Caviar delivers the best restaurants. We partner directly with restaurants to bring food to customers across the country — whether dining for one or 100. Customers can order ahead on the web, or instantly from the Caviar app for iOS and Android. Caviar is part of Square’s full suite of tools for businesses, enabling restaurants across the country to reach more customers, grow sales and expand reach. We deliver from the best restaurants in Boston, Brooklyn & Queens, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Philadelphia & Greater Philadelphia, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area (including East Bay, Peninsula, Marin & South Bay), and Washington D.C.

Simply put, we curate and design on-demand blooms (and other sweet surprises) starting at just $38. With BloomThat, it's never been faster or easier to send a little something. Making someone’s day is just a few taps away on our app (or visit BloomThat.com from any device). So what are you waiting for? Send #THATsomething today! On-Demand: SF | Bay Area | NYC | LA Next Day: All over the U.S. of A!

Rickshaw is a local delivery platform that partners with courier companies and delivers several goods, including laundry, gifts, office snacks, and meal subscriptions. It uses algorithms and mobile apps to dispatch, route, and track customer locations. The service is available from Monday to Friday from 7.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. Rickshaw was launched by Divya Bhat and Gautam Jayaraman.

SpoonRocket is a next-gen, ultra fast delivery platform that delivers high quality tasty meals to customers in 15 minutes or less. Currently backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, General Catalyst, and various other angels and funds. Download the app or checkout the website at www.spoonrocket.com.

Supr Daily is a daily grocery delivery service in India. We use daily milk subscriptions as a railroad to reduce the last-mile delivery costs by 10x. We leverage this as a 'Trojan Cow' to deliver all groceries to your doorstep by 7 am, daily. At it's peak, we scaled the company to $100M annual revenue run rate with a presence in 6 cities serving 200k+ orders daily. We were part of the Winter 17 batch of Y Combinator and were later acquired by Swiggy.

Feather is redefining furniture rental for city living and helping people feel at home no matter where they live or how long they plan on staying. By giving people smarter options, Feather is able to keep more furniture in homes and out of landfills. Monthly furniture payments can go toward ownership or you can simply return the furniture you no longer need. Those items endure our extensive refurbishment process before they are sent to live in their next home. Our reverse logistics platform allows our customers to swap and add new furniture at any time, helping limit furniture waste.

On-demand grocery delivery company based in the UK. We delivers snacks, drinks and more in under 30 minutes.