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The food delivery sector is looking pretty spicy in Europe right now. 
1) Finland's @woltapp, which started out delivering restaurant food, is expanding hard into grocery & other retail deliveries. It's just raised $530m from an impressive set of investors including @ICONIQGrowth @Prosus_Ventures @KKR_Co @HighlandEurope: https://sifted.eu/articles/wolt-530m-raise/
2) The big goal, for @woltapp and many of its competitors, is to help brick-and-mortar retailers of all sizes compete with Amazon — and take a nice commission from them for fulfilling their deliveries. That is, obviously, an ENORMOUS and growing market.
3) Unlike its Spanish competitor @Glovo_ES, which has announced a €100m partnership with real estate platform Stoneweg to build 100 'dark stores' by the end of the year, @woltapp is not so interested in having a big inventory of goods itself: https://sifted.eu/articles/glovo-dark-stores/
4) Instead, @woltapp wants to focus on building great tech to help with the pick-up process and either use this to fulfil its partner retailers' orders — or potentially license it to them, as @mikikuusi told me in October: https://sifted.eu/articles/wolt-lukasz-gadowski-delivery-hero/
5) The big player from the UK, @Deliveroo, is meanwhile doubling the number of dark kitchens it runs, along with expanding its grocery offering: https://sifted.eu/articles/deliveroo-moves-to-100-more-towns/ It also raised $180m last week and hit a $7bn valuation.
6) And then the one to watch — @getir. The Turkish super-speedy delivery app is planning to launch in London soon, according to Bloomberg, and raising fresh capital: https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/turkey-s-getir-seeks-new-funds-as-startup-plans-u-k-expansion
