- Minnow Technologies, a Seattle, WA-based IoT startup that has developed a contact-free food delivery and pickup solution called the Minnow Pickup Pod™, raised $3m in seed funding
- The round, which brought total seed funding to $6.4m, was led by Branded Strategic Hospitality with participation from Elevate Capital and Portland Seed Fund
- The company also intends to use the funds to expand its business reach
- Led by Steven Sperry, co-founder and CEO, Minnow provides IoT-enabled Pickup Pods which offer a contact-free way to deliver and pick up food
- The pods used by all of the leading food delivery services, as well as by restaurants and ghost kitchens that make their own deliveries
- They areinstalled in office buildings, multifamily residential properties, and college campuses throughout the United States and in Japan
