Wolt


Wolt is a Finnish technology company known for its food-delivery platform. Customers can order food from the platform's restaurant partners via mobile apps or a web browser, and either pick it up or have it delivered by the platform's courier partners.

History

Wolt was founded in 2014 by a CEO of Slush Miki Kuusi, and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Later, two successive Slush CEOs, Riku Mäkelä and Marianne Vikkula, switched to Wolt as well.
In January 2018, Wolt raised $30 million in funding, according to Bloomberg.
As of September 2019, Wolt operates in 18 countries and over 60 cities, including Tampere, Turku, Tallinn, Stockholm, Vilnius, Copenhagen, Oslo, Prague, Brno, Belgrade, Baku, Tbilisi, Athens, Tel Aviv and Zagreb. Wolt has over 6000 restaurant partners, 12 000 courier partners and 3 million registered users.
Wolt has raised €150M in funding from investors including ICONIQ Capital, Highland Europe, 83North, EQT Ventures, Inventure, Lifeline Ventures, Supercell founder & CEO Ilkka Paananen and Nokia Chairman Risto Siilasmaa, among others. The most recent funding round was announced in June, 2019. Wolt has over 530 employees, and it has publicly stated aiming to hire 1,000 more by the end of 2020.
Wolt was ranked second in the 2020 edition of the FT:1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2020 published by the Financial Times.

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