For a pilot project, which will involve carrying out supply runs for the food delivery platform’s grocery service Instamart, Swiggy has partnered with as many as 4 drone startups.
Partnered Drone Startups
Following are the startups that shall “replenish stocks between seller-run dark stores and from a store to a common customer point”:
- Bengaluru-based Garuda Aerospace Pvt Ltd
- New Delhi-based Skyeair Mobility Pvt Ltd
- ANRA+TechEagle Consortia
- Hyderabad-based Marut Dronetech Pvt Ltd
Regarding the pilot will take place in Bengaluru & Delhi NCR, a blog post by Swiggy said on Friday evening said that “A deliver partner will then pick up orders from the common point and deliver them to a customer’s doorstep”.
Project in 2 Tranches
In the pilot project which which will be executed in 2 tranches shall have Garuda Aerospace and Skyeair Mobility in the Tranche 1 and this will start from May. The second tranche while consists of the ANRA+TechEagle Consortia and Marut Dronetech will commence post the first one.
The idea behind the tranches is to use valuable learnings from the first tranche and design a tranche 2 experiment to specifically address any shortcomings that are identified.
A few weeks back, Swiggy had floated a Request for Proposal (RFP). Post the RFP round, the food-delivery platform said that it received 345 registrations in total, and chose the four startups after an evaluation process covering legal, financial, and technical rounds.