Pepper

www.theurbanpepper.com ↗ ·Madrid ·Pre-seed

Pepper (The Urban Pepper) is a Madrid-based last-mile logistics start-up that offers sustainable urban parcel delivery to e-commerce businesses and logistics operators. It collects parcels from clients and carriers, consolidates them in urban micro-hubs that each cover a radius of about 800 metres, and delivers them the same day using zero-emission vehicles such as electric vans and motorbikes, with AI-assisted barcode reading. Its delivery staff are employed directly rather than outsourced, and it recruits people at risk of social exclusion and the long-term unemployed. The company was founded in Madrid in 2020 by José Lezáun Ayerra and Ángel Fiel, and has raised a small pre-seed amount of about $74K.

Founded

2020

Founders

Total funds raised

€62.5K

SectorsLogistics, Last-mile delivery, Sustainable mobility Start-up MapMobility & Logistics › Logistics & delivery tech

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Founders

José Lezáun Ayerra

Co-Founder & CEO

Ángel Fiel

Co-Founder & COO

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