Vembla

Vembla is a Swedish express product delivery service founded in 2020. In addition to goods from stores, customers can order medicines from pharmacies. The startup notes that delivery is "environmentally friendly."

History

2021: Attracting €1.3 million of investments

June 17, 2021 it became known about the attraction by Vembla of investments in the amount of 1.3 million euros. Von Cats.vc, managing director of the online hypermarket Vprok.ru Perekrestok Leonid Dovladbegyan, director of logistics at Yandex.Eda Maxim Ivanin, former head of Delivery Club and Pandao Andrei Tsitsenko, business angel Dmitry Shklyar and others invested in the startup.

According to To sheets"" in the Cats.vc, the received funds Vembla will spend on creating its own network of outlets in the dark store format Stockholm in order to reduce the delivery time to 15-30 minutes for customers near the store. Within 2-3 years, the company plans to start work in seven cities, as well as increase revenue to more than 50 million euros per year. In addition, the startup is going to enter the markets of neighboring Sweden countries.

Ex-head of Delivery Club and tops "Crossroads" and "Yandex.Food" invested in the Swedish product delivery service Vembla

According to the representative of Cats.vc, the investment transaction held in June 2021 was a bridge round for Vembla before the round of 5-10 million euros in the coming year. Investors believe that the capitalization of Vembla for three years will exceed $1 billion, as residents of large cities order delivery more, trusting dark store stores.

Leonid Dovladbegyan noted that after the lockdowns, the fudtech direction became the driver of the development of the entire field of electronic commerce, while express delivery models played a special role. In his opinion, residents of large cities are increasingly using the services of such services. In Sweden, their popularity can be ensured by bad weather, because of which delivery is preferred to leave the house.^[1]

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