Finland’s weather is notoriously unfriendly; but even so, your food order might be delivered by a drone.

On a rainy day after Helsinki’s annual Slush conference , Finnish entrepreneur Ville Leppälä took TechCrunch behind the scenes of a three-party partnership between Irish drone delivery company Manna , DoorDash-owned food delivery platform Wolt , and his own startup, Huuva .

Huuva, whose name means kitchen hood, raised a seed round led by General Catalyst in 2022 with the promise of bringing good food to the suburbs. While it branched out of its cloud kitchen origins , its business still relies heavily on delivery tech — now including drones.

“If available, we’ll send your order with a drone.” That’s how Wolt has been notifying customers ordering from Huuva’s Niittari locati

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