Weezy was acquired by Getir

Weezy, a London, UK-based company handling a grocery e-commerce operation, announced that it was acquired by its competitor out of Turkey Getir.

Financial details were not disclosed. The combined entity is said to have a workforce totaling more than 4,000 employees globally.

Weezy, founded in 2019 by CEO Kristof Van Beveren and Alex Dent, launched its grocery e-commerce operations in the first part of 2020. It raised more than $20 million from investors including Left Lane Capital, DN Capital and Heartcore Capital.

Getir, founded in 2015 by Arkady Volozh, Doğancan Dalyan, Mert Salur, Nazım Salur, Serkan Borançılı and Tuncay Tütek, started locally from Turkey with an on-demand consumer delivery business, which was expanded to London, UK at the beginning of 2021.

Getir is now operating in nine countries - Turkey, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and the US. It raised $1 billion from investors including DisruptAD, Mubadala Investment Company, which are both arms of Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds, Silver Lake, Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital.

Both startups are part of the many online grocery startups from Europe funded by venture money at the end of 2020, begining of 2021.