Snappy Group is a tech firm with an online platform that helps convenience stores and small corner shops to monopolise on the growth in online grocery sales.

The company ‘brings ‘convenience stores to consumers’ doors’ and can offer deliveries in under 60 minutes. Snappy Shopper helps independent stores and smaller chains to generate additional sales and engage with customers by offering promotions directly to their mobile phone while providing valuable insights into their buying behaviour.

Snappy Shopper has been launched by the team behind web development company mtc whose customers include BrewDog, Umbro, Innis & Gunn, and Macdonald Hotels & Resorts.

The company also has the Hungrrr app, which offers takeaway delivery services for hospitality firms as well as helping them to provide things such as online ordering for table service in a venue.

Snappy Shopper currently employs 90 people but hopes to grow its staff numbers significantly over the next three years.

The firm’s investors include payment technology firm PayPoint, which is putting in £6.6m, Lord Laidlaw’s Highland Tech investment vehicle, and Justin King, the former chief executive of Sainsbury’s.

Scottish Enterprise, the publicly funded economic development agency, and the investment firms Maven Capital Partners and Kelvin Capital have also invested in Snappy Shopper, The Times reports.

Mike Callachan, chief executive and co-founder of Snappy Group, said: “Post-lockdown, the demand for home delivery and the desire to shop locally is greater than ever. Groceries and online ordering are universal now. We are all just so used to it and it has been accelerated by what has happened in 2020.

“We want to get the Snappy name synonymous with rapid grocery delivery in the UK and develop our hospitality technology.”