US-based consumer-delivery app Curbside secured $8m on Monday in a series A round backed by O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of media group O’Reilly.
The round was led by venture capital firm Index Ventures, and also included AME Cloud Ventures, Innnovation Endeavors, Chicago Ventures TenOneTen and WGI Group.
Curbside is a same-day vcollection platform. Customers can browse for products from hundreds of stores that they can order and pick up later the same day from outside the shop in question.
Jaron Waldman, co-founder and chief executive of Curbside, said: “With more speed and convenience than home delivery, Curbside is the perfect solution for today’s mobile, on-the-go consumers.
“We see a great opportunity to help a busy parent or someone on their way home from work to conveniently get what they want from their favourite nearby stores.”
The company also revealed that it had raised $1.5m in seed funding in 2013 from the same backers that funded its series A round.