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To further develop and scale its platform for local parcel acceptance communities, Cologne-based tech startup <\/strong>DropFriends<\/strong><\/a> is pleased to have secured a mid six-figure pre-seed funding round. Co-founder and CEO <\/strong>Martin Peters<\/strong><\/a> announced this at the Last Mile City Logistics trade fair in Berlin.<\/strong><\/p> With its vision, strategy, and in-house technical development, the founding team convinced business angels Daniel Matuschewsky, Daniel Senf, Henry Flack, Markus Richter, Rainer Witt, and Randolf Sch\u00fcrmann. In addition, NRW.Bank<\/a> participated in the funding round. <\/p> DropFriends<\/a> offers a platform that enables anyone to set up or access a parcel shop within seconds via app and SaaS\u2014regardless of the parcel service provider. \u201cIn two and a half months, we were able to generate more than 1,400 DropPoints. In Cologne and Hamburg, even more than the number of parcel lockers in each city,\u201d says Martin Peters<\/a>. <\/p> The startport<\/a> team is also proud to look back on the startups from startport Batch #5. Alessandro Benassi <\/a>supported the startup during its time in the program and says: \u201cWe are delighted with the founding team and congratulate them on the funding round. We are very pleased to see how the DropFriends founding team embraces diversity. This is a very important topic today, as diversity describes the differences and similarities among people or groups.\u201d<\/p> \u201cAs a group of business angels, we are impressed by the founding team. DropFriends<\/a> is a true tech company. They have the determination to make a positive contribution to climate protection and society. We are proud and pleased to support the team,\u201d says business angel Markus Richter.<\/p> \u201cIn Germany, more than 4 billion parcels are shipped each year. And the market is growing rapidly. This creates significant problems for everyone involved when receiving parcels. Our goal is to enable parcels to be received on the first attempt while remaining fair to all parties,\u201d emphasizes co-founder Yasmin Werner.<\/p> This is also confirmed by Mirco Meyer, Managing Director of DropFriends<\/a> cooperation partner \u201cbaoo<\/a>\u201d: \u201cWith our app, for example, you choose new With a focus on the growing number of online orders, the startup helps the CO2-emissions-intensive e-commerce sector operate more independently, but also more climate-friendly. \u201cEvery successful first-time delivery avoids additional trips for consumers and delivery drivers,\u201d emphasizes Osamah Aldoaiss<\/a>, co-founder and CTO. <\/p> About <\/strong>DropFriends<\/strong><\/a> To further develop and scale its platform for local parcel acceptance communities, Cologne-based tech startup DropFriends is pleased to have secured a mid six-figure pre-seed funding round. Co-founder and CEO Martin Peters announced this at the Last Mile City Logistics trade fair in Berlin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation-drivers-innovations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
DropFriends<\/a> was founded in Cologne at the end of 2019 by Yasmin Werner, Osamah Aldoaiss<\/a>, and Martin Peters<\/a>. DropFriends<\/a> turns anyone into a parcel shop\u2014regardless of the parcel service provider. These can then be selected to receive shipments via smartphone app, but also directly in online shop ordering processes or partner systems. The \u201cRheinland-Pitch<\/a> Winter Finals\u201d winner took part in the startport<\/a> accelerator of the Port of Duisburg<\/a> and currently has more than 1,500 independent DropPoints for parcel acceptance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"