Coco Robotics is using delivery volume to fund a larger sidewalk robot fleet

Coco Robotics raised $80 million in 2025 with more than 500,000 deliveries already reported since its robots reached streets in 2020. TechCrunch reported backing from Sam and Max Altman, Pelion Venture Partners, Offline Ventures, and other investors.

Coco was founded in 2020 by Brad Squicciarini and Zach Rash. The company builds compact sidewalk delivery robots for restaurant and grocery orders, placing itself between human couriers and larger autonomous vehicles. Its business depends less on one dramatic robot capability than on route density, merchant adoption, remote assistance, city permissions, charging, maintenance, and delivery cost per order.

The platform footprint gives Coco a cleaner commercialization path than many sidewalk delivery startups. DoorDash expanded its Coco partnership into Los Angeles and Chicago, with nearly 600 participating merchants eligible through the DoorDash app. Restaurant Dive also tied Coco's 2025 funding to DoorDash and Uber Eats routes across U.S. cities. Those channels matter because delivery robots need order flow before fleet scale can become useful.

TechCrunch reported that Coco’s OpenAI partnership uses data collected by its sidewalk robots for model development.

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