The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Delivers AI: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $4.0M raised. 5 sources back the record.
CategorySidewalk delivery
Appears inLogistics robots
Overview
Delivers.ai is a UK-based autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company founded in 2020 by Turkish entrepreneurs Ali Kutay Yarali and Oral Yigitkus. The company has completed over 100,000 deliveries for partners including EVRI, Carrefour, SPAR, Glovo, and Delivery Hero across Europe, the US, and Japan. Its robots use visual navigation, GPS positioning, and a telemonitoring system for safe autonomous operation on urban sidewalks. The company is relocating production from Istanbul to Haskovo, Bulgaria, with plans to manufacture 1,000 robots over two years.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
Co-founder
Deliveries completed
Partners
Operating markets
Production
Data & sources
Web sources
5
5 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Delivers AI has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Carrefour1× joint1 total
Most recent
Delivers AI on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified May 2022. Explore where Delivers AI's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Delivers AI deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Ali Kutay Yarali Founder & CEO
- Oral Yigitkus Co-founder
Founders (1)
- Oral Yigitkuscofounderno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Delivers AI.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Delivers AI2 deployments
Recent coverage
Delivers AI in third-party press
27-foot AI boats for Marines: HII's autonomous ROMULUS-25 - Stock Titan
SmartBear Delivers AI-Enhancements Across Entire Software Application Testing Lifecycle - Business Wire
KALA BIO Delivers Industry-Leading AI Infrastructure: Bionic Intelligence Research Agent Now Live - GlobeNewswire
Peers
85 peers across 1 segment. Every Delivers AI competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
amr(85)
53 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2073.1177093090264) · leader Boston Dynamics at 4191%
- Avridedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Cartkendirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Coco Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Kiwibotdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Neolix Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Ottonomydirect competitor(inferred)strong
Financial state
- Total funding
- $4.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 just announced
Every company Delivers AI has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Carrefour1× joint1 total
Funding rounds (2)
- Series A2024-07-01
$4M(reported) · $24M post
Investors: Japan Post Capital (lead), Turkiye Development Fund, IMPETUS Capital, Istanbul Technical University
- Seed2021-01-01
Investors: EIT Urban Mobility (lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Delivers AI’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2024-07-01Series A raising $4000000
Funding roundSeed funding round
2021-01-01Seed
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 5, 2026
Delivers AI sidewalk delivery robot
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMay 5, 2022
Delivers AI robot (YEBO) at Istanbul
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2022
Delivers AI robot (YEBO) at Madrid
Sources (5)
- https://www.ottomate.news/p/delivers-ai-launches-robot-delivery
- https://thespoon.tech/delivers-ai-robots-making-deliveries-in-turkey/
- https://www.impetus.capital/delivers-ai-revolutionizing-last-mile-delivery-with-autonomous-platform/
- https://www.eit.europa.eu/news-events/news/deliversai-eit-urban-mobility-supported-start-shows-its-first-autonomous-grocery
- https://tech.eu/2024/08/02/deliversai-raises-new-funding-to-hit-4m-total/
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Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 5
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Delivers AI.Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Serve Robotics3 models
- Also2 models
- Avride2 models
- Coco Robotics2 models
- Daxbot2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Delivers AI from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
27-foot AI boats for Marines: HII's autonomous ROMULUS-25 - Stock Titan
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SmartBear Delivers AI-Enhancements Across Entire Software Application Testing Lifecycle - Business Wire
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KALA BIO Delivers Industry-Leading AI Infrastructure: Bionic Intelligence Research Agent Now Live - GlobeNewswire
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AI ‘robot monk’ goes viral in Japan, delivers sermons at Kyoto temple - Storyboard18
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AI Research Agents - Trend Hunter
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Just Eat's delivery robots spark concern after dog incident - BBC
<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE9KaXI4djU4SFJEVHVwVkYtMFp4a2ttb0V1YnBZcHVycnRKNGlLNjdLSVotcVJUM2xlbVM1OGkzMERadml5QWI4NFJRTFgzXy1FeVp2VnNkY0l6UQ?oc=5"…
Chaos to Consistency: The 2026 Guide to Building Bulletproof Restaurant Operations - QSR Web
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ServiceNow Launches Autonomous Workforce to Automate Enterprise Roles - The AI Economy | Ken Yeung
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Just Eat takes Starship robot delivery to Sunderland - The Grocer
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Evri launches autonomous delivery robot trial in Barnsley - Parcel and Postal Technology International
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Delivery: Evri brings new special robot deliveries trial to Yorkshire town - how to get your parcels delivered - Yorkshire Post
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Delivery robots take to the streets of Bristol - Bristol24/7
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/delivers-ai.md
- RSS feed: /companies/delivers-ai/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/c1527834-de18-4033-b051-a9fa0e15bd8c
- Revision history: /companies/delivers-ai/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Serve Robotics3 models
- Also2 models
- Avride2 models
- Coco Robotics2 models
- Daxbot2 models
Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Delivers AI draws attention at the 7th percentile but verifies reality at the 12th percentile among sidewalk robots. Hype Gap -4.7, 16th widest among sidewalk robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 2, 2026