Website goshippo.com Founded 2013 | Current status Active | |
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Area served United States, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia Founders Laura Behrens Wu, Simon Kreuz | ||
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Shippo is an American software company that helps e-commerce businesses, online marketplaces, and platforms integrate shipping with multiple carriers through their API and web application. Shippo allowing users to compare shipping rates, create labels, and track parcels. Some of their customers and partners include Weebly, GoDaddy, Memebox, Shyp, Mercari, Stripe, Sellbrite, and Snapfulfil. As of September 2016, Shippo has raised $9 million in funding led by Union Square Ventures and SoftTechVC.
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Shippo was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. and has 10,000 businesses using their system. They send millions of packages to and from 196 countries around the world.
Shippo provides an API, web interface, as well as direct integrations with e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Etsy, Magento, Bigcommerce, Weebly, GoDaddy, and Stripe. Shippo aggregates all of its customers’ packages through their own account with carriers to get discounted rates, which they then pass onto customers. They help businesses generate shipping labels, as well as support for address validation, multi-carrier support, API tracking, batch label creation, discounts and international shipping. Shippo also partners with supply chain management systems such as Sellbrite, Selro, and Snapfulfil, as well as payment systems like Stripe.
History
Shippo started as an API then built their own app and dashboard for platforms such as Shopify and Magento to gain traction, with their core focus continuing to be the API. Their vision is to provide small online businesses the same discounts that larger retailers would get with major carriers, such as UPS, FedEx, and DHL. In March 2016, Shippo became a United States Postal Service ePostage partner alongside Amazon and Etsy, making them the first to launch ePostage for public access and one of the only publicly available USPS API connectors. Shippo is often highlighted as part of studies in logistics and delivery methods.
Laura Behrens Wu is the CEO and co-founder of Shippo. She and co-founder, Simon Kreuz, are both part of Forbes' 30 Under 30 2017 Enterprise Technology list. and Wu was featured in the 2016 LinkedIn Next Wave: Top Professionals 35 & Under list.
Shippo participated in Plug and Play's StartupCamp in January 2014 and was part of 500 Startups Batch 8. In 2014, they raised $2 million in seed funding led by SoftTechVC. Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner of SoftTechVC, also sat on Shippo's Board of Directors. On September 2016, Shippo announced a Series A round of $7 million led by Union Square Ventures with Albert Wenger joining their board, as Jeff Clavier steps off.