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Starship Technologies

amrstarship.xyz

Autonomous delivery vehicle company founded in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla (CEO) and Janus Friis.

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Founded
2014
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Status
Private

CategorySidewalk delivery

Appears inLogistics robots

Funding

$50.0M

Models

1

Deployments

50

Patents

4

Overview

Autonomous delivery vehicle company founded in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla (CEO) and Janus Friis. Starship Technologies developed the world's first autonomous sidewalk delivery robot, completing over 8 million autonomous deliveries across 50+ US college campuses and cities. Raised $50M Series C in October 2025, bringing total funding to $80M+.

The fleet of 2,700+ robots operates at Level 4 autonomy (99% autonomous) for Uber Eats and campus delivery. Originally founded in Estonia, now HQ in San Francisco.

Reality check

Robots (company-claimed)

Level 4 sidewalk delivery robots using radar, cameras and ML within about 2 miles.

Markets (company-claimed)

Campuses, grocers, delivery apps and industrial sites in the US and Europe.

Deliveries (company-claimed, Feb 2026)

Passed 10 million autonomous deliveries.

Verified record

Verified deployments
50 deployments on file
Active incidents
14 incidents on file

Key facts

Leadership (reported, unconfirmed)

CEO Ahti Heinla and co-founder Janus Friis, both Skype co-founders.

Fleet (reported, unconfirmed)

2,700+ robots.

US city funding (reported, unconfirmed)

$50M raised to expand to US cities.

Just Eat (reported, Feb 2026)

UK expansion with Just Eat, including Barnsley.

Campus pullback (reported, Jul 2026)

1,200 robots moved off US campuses to focus on city grocery delivery.

Partners (reported, unconfirmed)

Uber Eats.

Data & sources

Press releases

7

Patent documents

4

Web sources

5

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Models (1)

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Current platform

Starship Bot

Starship Bot is the six-wheeled autonomous sidewalk delivery robot of Starship Technologies, founded in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla, who is also chief executive, and Janus Friis, with headquarters in San Francisco and engineering hubs in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland. The robot carries an insulated cargo compartment and navigates sidewalks at low speed using multi-sensor fusion of cameras, radar, ultrasonics, and GPS, operating as an operator-supervised Level 4 system: it drives autonomously with remote human oversight and takeover available rather than being driverless, a distinction the registry preserves against Starship's own marketing of Level 4 autonomy without active human supervision. Starship runs a captive operator-supervised service model, operating its own fleet and selling the delivery backbone to apps, retailers, and campuses rather than selling robots to third parties, integrating with platforms such as Uber Eats, Just Eat, Bolt, Foodora, Grubhub, and Wolt. As of Starship's own April 2026 disclosure it had passed ten million cumulative autonomous deliveries with more than three thousand robots across more than three hundred service areas in eight countries: the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, and the United States, with more than sixty-five US university campuses as its anchor segment; Denmark, sometimes listed in priors, is not among them. It remains privately held, having closed a fifty-million-dollar Series C led by Plural in October 2025 that brought cumulative funding above two hundred eighty million dollars, with no valuation disclosed by the company.

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Partnerships

Every company Starship Technologies has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

8 total7 operating1 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Co-op2× joint2 total
  2. 2Just Eat2× joint
  3. 3Uber2× joint36 total
  4. 4Grubhub1× joint2 total
  5. 5University of Kentucky1× joint1 total

Most recent

  1. Starship x Just Eat robot delivery partnership2026-02-01
    with Just Eatoperating
  2. Starship x Just Eat2026-01-27
    with Just Eatoperating
  3. Uber Eats x Starship Technologies UK2025-11-20
    with Uberoperating
  4. Starship x Uber Eats autonomous delivery2025-11-01
    with Uberoperating
  5. Co-op x Starship Technologies2022-04-01
    with Co-opoperating

Starship Technologies on the deployment map

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50 verified deployments across 14 regions, newest verified Jul 2026. Explore where Starship Technologies's robots are operating, by place and type.

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Relationships

JJust EatCustomerUUberDeployerUUberCustomerCCo-opCustomerUUniversity of KentuckyCo-developerGGrubhubDeployerCCo-opDeployerPPluralInvestorSStarship TechnologiesCustomer

Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by Starship Technologies, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

Claim Integrity: 100% (4 of 4 resolved claims verified; 4 tracked)
  • VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2026-07-01
    “Starship robots are 99% autonomous and operate at Level 4. They have completed over 10 million deliveries — millions more than any competitor”

    Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.

    claim sourcestatus evidencecite this claim
  • VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2026-06-01
    “Autonomous Delivery Moves Into the Mainstream as Starship Technologies passes 10 million deliveries”

    Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.

    claim sourcestatus evidencecite this claim
  • VerifiedSafety · claimed 2026-06-01
    “125,000+ road crossings every day”

    Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.

    claim sourcestatus evidencecite this claim
  • VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2026-03-01
    “Starship Technologies Surpasses 8 Million Deliveries”

    Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.

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Current leadership (2)

Founders (2)

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Former / Previously (2)

Safety record

14 incidents on record (5 serious, 2 moderate, 2 minor). Most recent: Aug 2026.

serious
5
moderate
2
minor
2
Severity not classified
5
injury
6
other
3
property damage
3
collision
1
malfunction
1

Most recent: Aug 2026

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 →

Incidents affecting Starship Technologies (14)

Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Starship Technologies in third-party press

Just Eat and Morrisons Extend Autonomous Grocery Deliveries to Cambourne with Starship Robots

Oct 9, 2026

Avride brings bigger food delivery robots to UT

Aug 26, 2026

New Food Delivery Robots to Arrive on Campus

Aug 1, 2026

Peers

94 peers across 2 segments. Every Starship Technologies 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%

last mile delivery(9)

Mentioned on (43)

Registry pages whose text names Starship Technologies.

Robots and products (1)

Starship Bot

Deployments (25)

Starship Bot at Prague, Czechia, Serve Robot at Europe, Starship Bot at Sunderland, Starship Bot at Leeds, United Kingdom, Starship Bot at Sheffield, United Kingdom, Starship Bot at Arizona State University (Tempe), Starship Bot at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Starship Bot at Barnsley, UK, Starship Bot at Chicago, Illinois, USA, Starship Bot at Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (University of New Mexico), Starship Bot at Bowling Green State University, Starship Bot at Tallinn, Estonia, Starship Bot at Tallinn, Estonia, Starship Bot at Fairfax, Starship Bot at Cambridge, United Kingdom, Starship Bot at Barnsley, United Kingdom, Starship Bot at Arlington, Starship Bot at Wichita State University, Starship Bot at Hamburg, Germany, Starship Bot at Prague, Czechia, Starship Bot at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Starship Bot at UNC Charlotte, Starship Bot at Global, Serve Robot at Global (multiple sites), and 1 more