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Coco

cocodelivery.com
HQ: Santa Monica, California, United States
200
Transportation & Logistics

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Coco Robotics is a Los Angeles-based urban delivery robotics company that builds and operates electric sidewalk robots for food, grocery, pharmacy, and local-goods delivery. Its robots combine remote human operation with increasingly autonomous navigation, helping merchants fulfill short-distance deliveries without relying on cars or gig couriers.

Primary product

Coco Robotics sidewalk delivery platform: electric delivery robots, fleet operations, merchant integrations, and autonomy software.

Founded

2020

Headquarters

Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States

Team size

51-200; approximately 90-100 employees according to public company-directory data

Work style

Onsite

Industry

Transportation, logistics, supply chain and storage

Sub-industry

Robotics-enabled last-mile delivery and autonomous vehicles

Offices

Venice Beach, California, United States (current headquarters)
Santa Monica, California, United States (former headquarters)
Culver City, California, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Austin, Texas, United States
Houston, Texas, United States
Chicago, Illinois, United States
New York, New York, United States
Miami, Florida, United States
Helsinki, Finland

Business model

B2B2C delivery infrastructure
Per-delivery service fees through delivery platforms
Direct enterprise and restaurant delivery partnerships
Potential hardware-as-a-service or dedicated-fleet arrangements
Advertising and branded robot/out-of-home media

Funding

Stage

Series B

Total raised

$121.5M

Latest round

Series B / strategic financing · Jun 2025

Latest amount

$80M

Series B / strategic financing

Jun 2025 · SNR.vc

$80M

Series A

Aug 2021 · Sam Altman

$36M

Seed

Nov 2020

$5.5M

People & investors

Leadership

Zach Rash

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Brad Squicciarini

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Bolei Zhou

Chief AI Scientist

Melissa Fahs

Vice President, Enterprise Partnerships

Megan Jensen

Vice President, Global Partnerships and Expansion

Robert Zehner

Vice President of Engineering

Carl Hansen

Vice President, Head of Government Relations

George O'Brien

Vice President of Product

Nate Bosshard

Head of Marketing

Investors

DeepWater Asset Management
Founders Fund
Max Altman
Offline Ventures
Outlander VC
Pelion Venture Partners
Ryan Graves / Saltwater
Sam Altman
Silicon Valley Bank
SNR.vc

Work & culture

Public recruiting materials describe Coco as a fast-moving, high-energy, collaborative startup with substantial ownership and a hands-on operating culture. The company emphasizes hospitality and service alongside robotics engineering, and many roles are expected to work closely with the physical fleet and operations team. Current postings indicate that at least some corporate, engineering, and operations roles are onsite in Venice, California.

Work style

Onsite

Compensation

Public job postings show a Staff Backend Software Engineer range of $210,000-$250,000 plus equity; Controller $180,000-$250,000 plus equity; Supply Chain Manager $95,000-$155,000 plus equity; City Manager $140,000-$160,000 plus equity; and robot operations/technician roles generally around $21-$23 per hour, with some older or location-specific postings showing lower ranges. Visa sponsorship is not publicly confirmed.

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Startup equity
Competitive salary
Full-time and part-time roles
Flexible schedules for some operations roles
Equal-opportunity hiring

Product & market

Pricing

End-customer pricing is generally presented through partner platforms such as DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Wolt; Coco's exact merchant and platform pricing is not publicly disclosed. Public commentary indicates a no-tipping customer experience and a per-delivery economics model. Dedicated enterprise fleet or hardware-as-a-service pricing has been reported by secondary analysis but not confirmed by Coco.

Differentiators

  • —Focus on dense, complex urban environments rather than primarily controlled college campuses
  • —Partnerships with both DoorDash and Uber Eats, plus Wolt in Europe
  • —Large deployed fleet and more than 500,000 reported zero-emission deliveries
  • —Human-in-the-loop operations provide reliability while autonomy is gradually increased
  • —Camera-based and comparatively simple hardware approach intended to reduce cost per mile
  • —Robots can serve food, groceries, pharmacy items, and other local goods
  • —Merchant-focused workflow designed to reduce courier waiting, batching, parking, congestion, and emissions
  • —Data advantage from millions of miles of real-world urban operations

Technology

Electric sidewalk delivery robots
Remote teleoperation / human-in-the-loop control
Computer vision
Machine learning and physical AI
Data-driven navigation policies
Reinforcement learning and simulation
Neural 3D reconstruction
OpenAI models and data collaboration
NVIDIA Isaac Sim
DriveU.auto low-latency remote connectivity
Fleet-management and logistics software
Multi-compartment delivery hardware

Customers

DoorDash
Uber Eats
Wolt
DashMart
Poke Me
Health Nut
Sweetfin
Sushi Stop
DK's Donuts
Main Chick Hot Chicken
White Castle
Mendocino Farms

Competitors

Serve Robotics
Starship Technologies
Nuro
Cartken
Avride
Kiwibot
Amazon/RIVR
Human courier and gig-delivery networks

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$1 million-$10 million annually; one Exa company profile estimates approximately $8.9 million

Estimated monthly visits

26.1K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Latest news

A new generation of delivery robots is coming to L.A., built bigger and stronger

Los Angeles Times · Feb 2026

Coco unveiled Coco 2, a larger and more durable robot designed for broader autonomy and additional urban environments. The company said it planned mass production of approximately 1,000 units per month and expansion into new markets.

Coco's new delivery robot is hitting the streets without a human driver

Semafor · Feb 2026

Semafor reported that Coco 2 is designed to operate fully autonomously in appropriate settings, including certain streets and bike lanes, with speeds up to 13 mph in those environments and multiple delivery compartments.

Coco Robotics taps UCLA professor to lead new physical AI research lab

TechCrunch · Oct 2025

Coco appointed UCLA professor Bolei Zhou as Chief AI Scientist and launched a physical AI lab intended to use data from years of robot operations to improve local autonomy and delivery efficiency. The lab is separate from Coco's OpenAI collaboration.

Coco Robotics raises $80M to expand autonomous delivery and AI platform

Coco Robotics / PR Newswire · Jun 2025

Coco announced $80 million in strategic financing from returning investors including Sam and Max Altman, Pelion, Outlander, and SNR, plus new participation from Offline, DeepWater, and Ryan Graves. The company said the funds would scale its fleet, AI platform, and enterprise partnerships.

DoorDash and Coco expand global partnership with U.S. sidewalk robot delivery launch

DoorDash · Apr 2025

DoorDash launched Coco robot delivery for eligible customers in Los Angeles and Chicago, building on a Wolt pilot in Helsinki. DoorDash said nearly 600 merchants were initially participating and that Coco had completed more than 100,000 deliveries during the pilot.

About / teamCareersDelivery product pageEngineering and autonomy blogHomepageLinkedIn company pageNVIDIA Isaac Sim announcementPhysical AI / autonomy blogPress pageZach Rash LinkedIn
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Jobs and careers at Coco

12 jobs at Coco

City Manager, New Jersey

On-site
Operations
Jersey City; Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
1d ago
On-site
Full-time
Apply

Operations Supervisor

On-site
Operations
LA; los angeles, CA, United States
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Apply

Supply Chain Manager

On-site
Operations
LA; los angeles, CA, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Apply

City Manager, Helsinki

On-site
Operations
Helsinki; Helsinki, Finland
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Apply

Robot Delivery Technician

On-site
Operations
London, UK; London, UK, UK
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Apply

Robot Delivery Technician

On-site
Operations
Jersey City; Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
4mo ago
On-site
Full-time
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Controller

On-site
Finance
LA; los angeles, CA, United States
5mo ago
On-site
Full-time
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Robot Delivery Technician

On-site
Operations
LA; los angeles, CA, United States
5mo ago
On-site
Full-time
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Robot Delivery Technician

On-site
Operations
Miami; Miami, Florida, United States
6mo ago
On-site
Full-time
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Robot Delivery Specialist

On-site
Operations
LA; los angeles, CA, United States
6mo ago
On-site
Full-time
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Senior Human Resources Generalist

On-site
People
LA; los angeles, CA, United States
7mo ago
On-site
Full-time
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Staff Software Engineer, Backend

On-site
Engineering
LA; los angeles, CA, United States
1y ago
On-site
Full-time
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