Case Study: Grocery delivery startup Gorillas achieves rapid U.S. scale and 80% faster lease management with Occupier

How Grocery Delivery Startup Gorillas is Using Occupier to Scale

Gorillas, a fast-growing grocery delivery startup with 185 micro-fulfillment centers in Europe that began U.S. expansion in 2021 (15 locations in New York City, targeting 30 in 2022), was hampered by analog lease-management systems that left stakeholders without a single source of truth. To centralize critical real estate data and support aggressive scaling, Gorillas selected Occupier’s real estate management platform.

Occupier centralized lease information, automated prompts for rent escalations and term notices, and provided a single source of truth for cross-functional teams, freeing Gorillas’ real estate lead to focus on strategy. The platform cut lease operational work from two–three weeks to a couple of days (saving roughly 80% of time), replaced the need for five to ten lease administrators, and helped Gorillas rapidly scale and plan to double its U.S. warehouse/dark store footprint—driving measurable efficiency and faster expansion with Occupier.

Gorillas

Alexander Angeline

Head of Real Estate and Development