“Can a mobility super-app become the financial OS for restaurant partners in Europe and Africa by layering embedded lending and insurance over its delivery network?”
Bolt Food is the food-delivery vertical of Estonian mobility super-app Bolt, launched 2019 in Tallinn as a cheaper, courier-friendly answer to Wolt and Uber Eats in CEE and Africa. It expanded into rapid grocery via Bolt Market in 2021. Through 2025 it has built an embedded-finance layer for the supply side — courier insurance in Africa and revenue-based working capital for restaurants in Europe via finmid (Latvia) and YouLend (Poland), positioning Bolt Food as a financial OS for its restaurant partners rather than only a delivery channel.
Bolt Food processes payments through Worldpay, Adyen, Checkout.com and Solidgate.
Bolt Food uses Solidgate for FX and cross-border payouts.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 3 layers in Bolt Food's stack: Payments / PSP (Worldpay, Adyen, Checkout.com and Solidgate); Lending (Bolt Food Finance); FX & payouts (Solidgate).
Bolt Food was founded by Markus Villig and is founded in 2019, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.
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