{"id":44318,"date":"2019-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/citibox-especializada-en-delivery-cierra-una-ronda-de-11me\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:48:21","slug":"citibox-especializada-delivery-cierra-ronda-11me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/citibox-especializada-delivery-cierra-ronda-11me\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivery specialist CitiBox closes \u20ac11M round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the advent of the internet, the habits and consumption patterns of citizens have gradually changed thanks to the opportunities offered by the web. One of these transformations that is having the greatest impact today is the use of delivery platforms, such as CitiBox. A sector that has achieved great popularity in just a few years, to the point of contributing a total of 643 million euros to Spanish GDP last year, with a forecast to exceed 2,000 million euros by 2020.<\/p>\n

About CitiBox<\/h2>\n

One of the Spanish companies operating in this segment is Citibox<\/a>dedicated to the installation of smart mailboxes in the communities to facilitate the delivery of orders.<\/strong>. In this way, couriers can drop off parcels even if the recipient is not at home, and the recipient is notified via the app with a unique code to open the parcel.<\/p>\n

With the aim of increasing its network of smart mailboxes in Madrid and Barcelona, as well as to boost its international expansion, it has set up 11M\u20ac<\/strong> in its Series A investment round. To this round<\/a> investors, including Luis Miguel Gilp\u00e9rez, former chairman of the board of directors of Telef\u00f3nica<\/a> Spain; Santiago Fern\u00e1ndez Valbuena, former finance and strategy director of the Telef\u00f3nica group; Richard Alden, former CEO of Ono; Bernardo Hern\u00e1ndez, former director of Google; as well as Javier Rubi\u00f3, well-known investor in digital projects or Jos\u00e9 Manuel Mart\u00ednez, from Corporaci\u00f3n HMS.<\/p>\n

Other relevant transactions that have taken place in the sector include:<\/p>\n

PAACK<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Founded at the end of 2014, it is a company specialising in ultra-fast deliveries<\/strong> (menos de dos horas) y que presta sus servicios tanto a peque\u00f1os como grandes comerciantes, tales como El Corte Ingl\u00e9s, Decathlon o Mediamarkt.<\/p>\n

Having raised a round of 6M\u20ac<\/strong> last year, Paack<\/a> has already initiated the first contacts with national and international funds in order to close a deal that would be in the region of 15M\u20ac<\/strong>. Already present in the main cities of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as in other European cities, they plan to launch their services in Los Angeles and other cities in France and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

HAPPY BOX<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This Spanish startup provides a express courier service via its web platform or through the free mobile application<\/strong>. Already with around 250,000 orders per year, their plans are to continue increasing this figure as well as extending their range of operations to other Spanish cities.<\/p>\n

Happy Box pas\u00f3 su etapa de aceleraci\u00f3n en el Andaluc\u00eda Open Future, para poco despu\u00e9s cerrar una exitosa ronda de financiaci\u00f3n con un total de 53 inversores que tomaron el 16% del capital. Adem\u00e1s, ser\u00e1 pionera en el uso de robots aut\u00f3nomos para la entrega de paqueter\u00eda, una forma de reparto en la que ya est\u00e1 trabajando.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The delivery sector is booming in the corporate finance sector, as evidenced by the new round of financing that CitiBox has closed.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1750],"tags":[155,153,157],"sectores":[],"tipo-contenido":[2260],"class_list":["post-44318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financiacion-sectorial","tag-corporate-finance-spain","tag-global-corporate-finance","tag-venta-de-empresas","tipo-contenido-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44318"},{"taxonomy":"sectores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sectores?post=44318"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-contenido?post=44318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}