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Minnow Technologies

1100 Ne Campus Parkway, Suite 200, Seattle, WA, 98195-6254, United States

Overview

Minnow Technologies is a Seattle-based IoT startup that developed the Minnow Pickup Pod™, a contact-free food delivery and pickup solution. Its IoT-enabled Pickup Pods provide a contact-free way to deliver and pick up food and are used by leading food delivery services, restaurants, and ghost kitchens. The pods are installed in office buildings, multifamily residential properties, and college campuses throughout the United States and in Japan. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Steven Sperry. Minnow raised $3M in a seed financing that brought its total seed funding to $6.4M. The company intends to use the funds to expand its business reach. Minnow Technologies, based in Seattle, develops IoT-enabled contact-free Pickup Pods for food delivery and pickup. Its core product family includes the Minnow Pickup Pod™ and the first commercial model, the Minnow P5 Pickup Pod. The pods are designed for use in restaurants, cafeterias and delivery drop-offs to provide a convenient, contact-free pickup experience and to help keep consumers and delivery workers safer. Led by CEO Steven Sperry, Minnow is accelerating production of the Minnow P5 and is accepting pre-orders for the first batch of production units. Financially, the company completed a $2.2M seed funding round and previously raised $1.2M in a 2018 pre-seed round.

Total raised
$5M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Seed
Latest activity
May 2021

Industries

  • Big Data
  • E-Commerce
  • Hardware
  • Hospitality
  • Internet of Things
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Recent funding

  1. Seed

    May 2021

    $3M

  2. Seed

    Aug 2020

    $2M

Team

  • Steven Sperry

    Co-founder & CEO

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  • Michaela Mc Vetty

    Co-Founder & Director of Operations

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  • Yona Belfort

    Founder, VP of Hardware

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  • James Andre

    National Account Executive

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