Wolt Launches in Vilnius to Help People Discover and Get Great Food

Some important facts:

> Wolt makes it easy for people to discover and order great food in their city for pickup or delivery through its mobile apps and website

> You can already find 35 different selection of restaurants from 29 merchants in Wolt.

> The food is delivered by couriers operating with bicycles, scooters and cars in most Vilnius regions in less than 30 minutes

 5 October 2017 – VILNIUS, Lithuania – Wolt, which makes it easy to discover and get food from the most popular restaurants in your city, launches in Vilnius on Thursday, 5 October 2017, at 11:00 a.m. Vilnius marks Wolt’s first city in Lithuania.

Initially, Wolt lets people use the service with 29 restaurants in the central area. Users can place an order in as little as 10 seconds and have the food either delivered to their homes, pick it up at the restaurant for takeaway or order straight to the table.

“For me, Vilnius is the logical next step. Progressive and aspiring people, very diverse and rich restaurant scene, ” says Baltic General Manager Liis Ristal. “We want to offer the easiest and quickest way to get to great food and new ways how restaurants expand their reach. 92% of the orders via Wolt are new customers for the restaurants.”

Wolt will deliver with bicycles, scooters and cars. The delivery will take 30 minutes on average, including food preparation time. Meals are delivered in preheated bags keeping them warm. The delivery fee starts from 1.5 euros.

The Apple-awarded app shows the customer minute-by-minute updates on how their order is coming together and lets them follow the delivery to their door on a map.

In Wolt, more than 450 000 users and 900 restaurants have signed up for Wolt in less than a two years.  The company has a local team on the ground in Vilnius, and is looking to hire more doer-type people to help the company grow internationally.

Wolt is backed up by some strong investors and some 15 M euros in funding.

Investors include Skype founder Niklas Zennström, who as CEO grew the video and voice call service from zero to more than 300 million users. Also on board are Nokia chairman Risto Siilasmaa, and Ilkka Paananen, who runs the 8 billion euro gaming success Supercell.

“We honestly couldn’t think of better partners on the planet to help us on our journey”, says Miki Kuusi, who himself has earlier led the European startup mega event Slush from 300 to 15 000 attendees as CEO.

“Our last round was led by EQT Ventures, who have founders such as Kees Koolen. He took the online hotel booking service Booking.com from 1 million to 8 billion euros in revenue. He’s also been a growth advisor for Uber since the very beginning. It’s an utter pleasure building something with this expertise as help.”

CEO Kuusi was recently chosen on the Forbes 30-under-30 list in consumer tech, while Elias Pietilä, one of the six Wolt co-founders, was the first person in the Nordics to win the prestigious Apple Design Award.

Investors in Wolt also include Inventure and Lifeline Ventures, among others.

PHOTOS: Woltpress

RESTAURANTS:

THESE 25 RESTAURANTS WILL BE IN THE WOLT Vilnius LAUNCH

Ramenas ir pagaliukai

Drops Bar

Balzac

No Forks

Piano Piano

Vathaitau

Peri Peri

Tortinė

Trinity

Holy donut

Drama burger

Jurgis ir drakonas

Vapiano

Wok to Walk

Cafe Montmartre

Namai

Theobromine chocolatier

Pancho

Casa de familia

Leyla

Saigon

Delta mityba

Beigelistai

Element

Pizzaland

Vegan

Rawhouse

Gyoza bar

Maurizio’s pizzeria

Studio 9

HOW WOLT WORKS?

Download the app free for iPhone or Android Pick your favourite from 25 restaurants Build your order and choose if you want it home-delivered, takeaway or at the table If you order delivery, you’ll get minute-by-minute updates on your orders progress and even see it approach you on a map The payment happens automatically in the background through your card and receipts go straight to your email as well