The verified answer
As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Starship Technologies: 2 models, 14 deployments across 13 regions, 6 active incidents. 16 sources back the record.
CategorySidewalk delivery
Appears inLogistics robots
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.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 14 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- 6 incidents on file
Key facts
Robots
Primary markets
Geography
Navigation
HQ
CEO
Co-founder
Series C
Total fundingsee investors →
Deliveries
Partners
Hero image candidate
Campus-to-city pivot
10M deliveries milestone
Just Eat partnership
US city expansion funding
Total deliveries
Fleet size
Data & sources
Press releases
7
Patent documents
4
Web sources
5
16 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (2)
View all models →Current platform
Starship Delivery Robot
Starship Technologies' delivery robot is a six-wheeled autonomous sidewalk robot (with a bogie system to climb curbs) that carries up to ~9-10 kg (about three grocery bags), travels around 4 mph, and runs up to ~18 hours per charge; it has completed millions of commercial deliveries across university campuses and towns.
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.
Starship Technologies on the deployment map
View the global map14 verified deployments across 13 regions, newest verified Jul 2026. Explore where Starship Technologies's robots are operating, by place and type.
- operationalStarship Delivery Robot at Washington, D.C. →verified Jul 2026
- operationalStarship Bot at Barnsley, UK →South Yorkshire · verified Apr 2026
- operationalStarship Delivery Robot at Barnsley, United Kingdom →verified Apr 2026
- operationalStarship Delivery Robot at Barnsley, UK →South Yorkshire · verified Apr 2026
- operationalStarship Delivery Robot at Prague, Czechia →verified Jan 2026
- operationalStarship Delivery Robot at Sheffield, United Kingdom →verified Jan 2026
- operationalStarship Delivery Robot at Leeds, United Kingdom →verified Dec 2025
- operationalStarship Bot at Wichita State University →verified Aug 2023
- operationalStarship Bot at UNC Charlotte →verified Jan 2023
- operationalStarship Bot at University of Illinois Chicago →verified Jan 2023
- operationalStarship Bot at Arizona State University (Tempe) →verified Jan 2022
- operationalStarship Bot at Bowling Green State University →verified Jan 2020
View the full Starship Technologies deployment record →
Relationships
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.
- 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”
10M+ deliveries confirmed on company website and press releases. 3,000+ robot fleet. 22M+ autonomous kilometers. "99% autonomous" means human intervention is needed for 1% of situations. This is the largest sidewalk delivery deployment by an order of magnitude. https://www.starship.xyz/press/autonomous-delivery-moves-into-the-mainstream-as-starship-technologies-passes-10-million-deliveries/
- VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2026-06-01
“Autonomous Delivery Moves Into the Mainstream as Starship Technologies passes 10 million deliveries”
10M+ deliveries independently confirmed. 3,000+ robot fleet. 22M+ autonomous kilometers. "Mainstream" is supported by the scale — no competitor has more deliveries. https://www.starship.xyz/
- VerifiedSafety · claimed 2026-06-01
“125,000+ road crossings every day”
125K+ daily road crossings by 3,000+ robots is a remarkable safety metric. No regulatory contradictions found. https://www.starship.xyz/
- VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2026-03-01
“Starship Technologies Surpasses 8 Million Deliveries”
8M deliveries milestone passed in early 2026. Subsequently reached 10M. Growth trajectory is verified. https://www.instagram.com/p/DIi7s_SM2Ng/
Disagree with a status? Starship Technologies can submit a correction with evidence and we log the response on the record. Methodology and the full industry ledger live at /stats/claim-integrity.
Current leadership (2)
- Alastair Westgarth CEOIR-verified
- Ahti Heinla Co-founder & CTO, Co-founder & CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Ahti Heinlacofounderfounded 2014-01-01
- Janus Friiscofounderfounded 2014-01-01
Former / Previously (2)
- Janus Friis Co-founder (non-operational)secondary-verified
- Allan Martinson COO (2014-2018, former)secondary-verified
Safety record
6 incidents on record (2 serious, 2 moderate, 1 minor). Most recent: Jul 2026.
Most recent: Jul 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 (6)
- Starship delivery robot strikes ASU employee on campus, lawsuit filed2026-07-25 · Injury
- Starship Technologies delivery robot reportedly struck a parked car and left the scene, Helsinki (2025)2024-02-15 · Property damage
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)
- Starship Technologies14 deployments
Recent coverage
Starship Technologies in third-party press
Peer companies
- Amazon4 models
- Serve Robotics3 models
- Avride2 models
- Coco Robotics2 models
- Daxbot2 models
- Haomo.AI2 models
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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 (7)
- Starship x Just Eat robot delivery partnership with Just Eatdeployment
- Starship x Just Eat with Just Eatdeployment
- Uber Eats x Starship Technologies UK with Uberdeployment
- Starship x Uber Eats autonomous delivery with Uberdeployment
- Co-op x Starship Technologies with Co-opdeployment
- Starship x Grubhub with Grubhubdeployment
- Starship x Co-op with Co-opdeployment
Funding rounds (1)
- Series C2025-10-15
$50M
Investors: Plural (lead)
Patent estate (4)
- US9741010B1usptograntedgranted 2017-08-22assignee
- US11200532B2usptograntedgranted 2021-11-23assignee
- US11941571B2usptograntedgranted 2024-03-26assignee
- US9256852B1usptograntedgranted 2016-02-16assignee
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Incident recordedJul 25, 2026
Starship delivery robot strikes ASU employee on campus, lawsuit filed
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJul 15, 2026
Starship Delivery Robot at Washington, D.C.
- Incident recordedJul 14, 2026
Trudy Perez sues Starship Technologies over 2023 ASU delivery robot collision that caused...
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Safe and Secure: Starship Autonomous Delivery Robots
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Starship Delivery Robots on College Campus
Sources (12)
- Starship Technologies: Company website · https://www.starship.xyz
- Wikipedia: Starship Technologies · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Technologies
- https://www.starship.xyz/press/autonomous-delivery-moves-into-the-mainstream-as-starship-technologies-passes-10-million-deliveries/
- https://www.starship.xyz/press/starship-technologies-raises-50m-series-c/
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251015387447/en/Starship-Technologies-Raises-$50M-Series-C-to-Scale-Autonomous-Delivery-Across-U.S.-Cities
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251120298420/en/Starship-Technologies-and-Uber-Eats-Launch-Autonomous-Delivery-Partnership
- https://www.starship.xyz/press/starship-technologies-and-uber-eats-launch-autonomous-delivery-partnership/
- https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/technology/starship-technologies-raises-50m-robot-delivery-race-revs
- https://www.pymnts.com/partnerships/2025/uber-eats-and-starship-to-launch-autonomous-sidewalk-robot-delivery-in-december/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/grubhub-and-starship-technologies-partner-to-bring-robot-delivery-services-to-college-campuses-301645087.html
- https://about.grubhub.com/news/grubhub-and-starship-technologies-partner-to-bring-robot-delivery-services-to-college-campuses/
- https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/story/2025/04/starship-technologies-surpasses-8-million-deliveries/24613/
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Methodology: Verified · 12 sources (7 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-05
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-05
Sources by quality tier
- 7
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 4
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Starship Technologies.Peer companies
- Amazon4 models
- Serve Robotics3 models
- Avride2 models
- Coco Robotics2 models
- Daxbot2 models
- Haomo.AI2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Starship Technologies from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/starship.md
- RSS feed: /companies/starship/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/9fa14702-0c5f-4c07-a300-79665ed32dd9
- Revision history: /companies/starship/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon4 models
- Serve Robotics3 models
- Avride2 models
- Coco Robotics2 models
- Daxbot2 models
- Haomo.AI2 models
Video
Starship robots are now delivering food, drinks, parcels and other items on corporate and academic campuses around the world. This new service allows staff the
Our so cute food delivery robots in Milton Keynes #miltonkeynes #starship #fooddelivery
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Starship Technologies has partnered with Postmates to start making robotic deliveries in Silicon Valley. » Subscribe to CNBC: http://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBC About
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A future where businesses use AI and robotics widely is fast approaching. Starship Technologies is bringing that future closer with its delivery robots that are
Reality vs attention
Starship Technologies draws attention at the 95th percentile but verifies reality at the 97th percentile among sidewalk robots. Hype Gap -2.2, 14th widest among sidewalk robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Strong deployment footprint with 50 operational sites across 45 countries. Meaningful press and media coverage across the period. Thin IP estate 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: Aug 17, 2026