QikPod, which plans to set up a system of delivery storage lockers around India, secured the cash from backers including Delhivery, Flipkart and Foxconn.

India-based logistics startup QikPod has launched with $9m of funding from investors including e-commerce company Flipkart, logistics service provider Delhivery and contract manufacturer Foxconn, the Economic Times reported today.

Flipkart, Delhivery and Foxconn, which supplied its share of the funding through its Foxconn Mobile subsidiary, were joined in the round by US-based venture capital firm Accel Partners.

QikPod aims to establish a network of intelligent lockers located in metropolitan centres around India that e-commerce companies can use to store delivery…