Grofers
Grofers is an Indian online grocery delivery service. It was founded in December 2013 and is based out of Gurugram. As of 2018, the company has raised about $535.5 million from investors including SoftBank, Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital.
The name Grofers is a portmanteau of "grocery gophers". Customers of the company use a mobile application to order groceries online. Grofers employees then secure the items from their warehouse and deliver the items to the consumer. The delivery may be scheduled for any time of the day.
Grofers currently operates in 29 cities namely Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Jaipur, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Aligarh,
Agra, Ahmedabad, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Faridabad, Meerut, Rohtak, Bhiwadi,
Moradabad, Mathura, Sonipat, Guwahati, Panipat, Durgapur, Vadodara, Allahabad, Modinagar
During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Grofers along with Amazon India and Big Basket were among the few online grocery platforms that continued to operate in India.Funding rounds
Source:
| Announced Date | Transaction Name | Number of Investors | Fund Raised |
| 8-Dec-14 | Series A | 1 | $500K |
| 26-Feb-15 | Series B | 2 | $10M |
| 14-Apr-15 | Series C | 2 | $35M |
| 26-Nov-15 | Series D | 5 | $120M |
| 16-Mar-18 | Series E | 3 | $61.5M |
| 20-Dec-18 | Series F | 7 | $250M |
