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30 Logistics Startups You Should Know

by Sid Saha
The logistics and transportation industry saw a surge in funding last year — from $7B in
2014 to $14B in 2015. Venture capitalists are bullish about the potential for startups are
bringing efciency to an antiquated but lucrative industry.
Often these startups are less well-known due to the “un-sexiness” of the logistics space.
To help we decided to compile a list of some promising startups that are looking to
make a dent in this industry.
If you’re new to the world of logistics, here’s a list of basic terminology.
If after reading this list you want to learn more about these companies, here are two
things you can do:
1. Subscribe to this Twitter list.
2. Drop us your email and you’ll get a spreadsheet of the companies we’ve collected

with links to their open job postings.
Seed Stage
Buddytruk
Santa Monica, CA, ~10 employees, Founded in 2013
$1.28M in total funding, Seed round led by Winklevoss Capital
For consumers, moving things from one location to another is notoriously expensive.
For instance, it costs the customer about $200 and 2–3 days to get a couch delivered
from WestElm via their delivery partner.
BuddyTruk makes the hauling and moving process “social”. It connects consumers with
a local person with a truck (a “buddy”). Buddies can earn upto $40/hour. The consumer

saves money by paying a person, not a company. The delivery is generally completed in
hours, not days.
The startup now operates in Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, and Orange County.
More about BuddyTruck
• BuddyTruk is like Lyft for moving (TechCrunch)
• Crazy Expansion: BuddyTruk expands to Chicago and Austin. (ChicagoInno, Austin

Business Journal)
• Interview with Brian Foley, Founder and CEO (Blogtrepreneur)

Chariot
San Francisco, CA, ~34 employees, Founded in 2014
$3M in total funding, Seed round led by Semil Shah
The ofce commute in San Francisco is expensive and time consuming.
Chariot is building better transit routes (by learning commuter habits and preferences)
that are faster than public transport and cheaper than taxi or Uber. It crowdsources
routes and pickup / drop-of stops by learning home and work addresses from users. It’s
Chariots (14-passenger vans) use custom technology to route and service customers.
Chariot is enabling ~60,000 rides a month and has brought prices down to ~$3 on
specifc routes.
More on Chariot
• How Chariot thrived where other private transit startups failed (San Francisco
Business Times)
• The Story behind Semil Shah’s investment in Chariot (Semi Shah’s blog)
• Chariot: The Last Bus Startup Standing (TechCrunch)

ClearMetal
$3M in total funding, Seed round led by NEA and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation
Endeavors
Shipping carriers, freight forwarders, and others in the supply chain struggle to get the
right asset at the right place at the right time and make the most optimal trade
decisions. ClearMetal generates highly accurate predictions to help the industry solve its
most complex challenges, like how to efciently place ocean containers and plan vessel
space.
ClearMetal does this by modeling, predicting, and simulating the movement of every
ocean container using Data Science and Machine Learning.

ClearMetal’s platform has shown millions of dollars of incremental savings potential

and revenue generation for some of the largest logistics providers on the planet.
More about ClearMetal
• ClearMetal on Carbon Emissions Reduction (YouTube)
• Why Ocean Carriers need a Big Data Predictive Analytics Solution (Forbes)
• Eric Schmidt is upbeat on Predictive Solution for Ocean Carriers (Inc)
Darkstore
San Francisco, CA, Founded in 2016
$270K in total funding, Seed round led by Gary Fritz (Former President of Expedia),
R/GA Ventures

Darkstore is an on-demand delivery 3PL. They’re enabling e-commerce brands to house

inventory in major cities and ofering on-demand and same-day delivery at low prices.
Instead of owning fulfllment centers themselves, Darkstore uses extra space in storage
facilities, malls, and bodegas. They don’t charge e-commerce companies to store
inventory, but charge 3% per item that leaves Darkstore.
They currently have storage facilities (“Darkstores”) in San Francisco and Phoenix and
will be starting services in New York and Los Angeles in October.
Tuft and Needle, a mattress startup is already using them to power same-day deliveries.
More about Darkstore
• WunWun founder launches Darkstore, an on-demand fulfllment platform

(TechCrunch)

Dispatch
South San Francisco, CA, ~4 employees, Founded in 2015
$2M in total funding, Andreessen Horowitz and Precursor Ventures
Dispatch is building Carry, an autonomous robot with 4 compartments and a weight of

100 pounds, that can automate the last-mile delivery. The robot travels at the pace of
pedestrians on sidewalks and bike paths to deliver items.
Consumers can track the robot carrying the delivery, receive a notifcation when the
robot arrives, and unlock it with their phones.
Dispatch has launched pilot programs at Menlo College and CSU Monterey Bay to
deliver to students their mail, packages, and other things.
More about Dispatch
• Self-driving delivery vehicle raises $2M seed round (TechCrunch)
• Self-driving delivery robots are coming to a sidewalk near you (Forbes)
• Robots may beat drones in a race to deliver packages (SF Gate)

Doorman
$1.9M in total funding, Seed round led by Motus Ventures
It’s inconvenient to receive packages because customers can’t select a day or time to
receive them. This results in missed or stolen deliveries.
Doorman has a mobile app that consumers can use to schedule deliveries by
appointment. Consumers get their packages shipped to Doorman and select the day and
time they want it to be delivered by Doorman.
Doorman also provides an API that e-commerce companies can integrate with to let
shoppers choose a delivery day and time during checkout.
More about Doorman

• Doorman acquires Luna to create consolidated package delivery service

(TechCrunch)
• Doorman expands to Chicago and New York (TechCrunch)
EasyPost
$3.45M in total funding, Y-Combinator Backed
Online retailers ship with multiple carriers. Integrating with USPS, UPS, and FedEx,
implementing real-time rates, and tracking and communicating order status are just a
few shipping issues online retailers face.

EasyPost provides a simple unifed API to integrate with over 63 shipping carriers
worldwide. Online retailers can get the best rates on shipments and compare prices and
delivery times across USPS, FedEx, USP, and others.
Teesping, Vinted, and Printful use EasyPost for all their shipping needs.
More about EasyPost
• EasyPost helps small businesses ship like Amazon (The New York Times)
• How EasyPost handles rise in Delivery Service Demand (Bloomberg)

Lugg
$3.8M in total funding, Seed round led by A.Capital Ventures
Lugg makes it efortless to get anything moved.
Their mobile app connects a consumer with a truck and two movers. Consumers set up
a pickup location, add a photo of the item they want moved, and the movers are on the
way. The movers reach you within 15–60 minutes, instead of hours.
Lugg picks up from San Francisco, San Mateo, Foster City, Oakland, Fremont, and
Hayward but can drop stuf anywhere in the Bay Area.
More about Lugg
• Lugg hits Silicon Valley (TechCrunch)
• Lugg, an app for on-demand short distance moves, raises $3.8M (TechCrunch)

Onfeet
$3.9M in total funding, Seed round led by Semil Shah
Businesses managing their own delivery feet (or working with third-party couriers)
require an all-encompassing logistics solution to manage their couriers.
Onfeet provides software infrastructure to allow companies to ofer their customers on-
demand and scheduled deliveries. To be clear, Onfeet does not provide drivers. Instead
they provide a backend to coordinate deliveries and optimize delivery routes that drive
savings.
So far the company has powered several million deliveries since launch.
More about Onfeet

• Onfeet has powered over 1 million on-demand deliveries (TechCrunch)
• How Onfeet is rapidly becoming the Uber for delivery (Inc)
Rickshaw
Y-Combinator Incubated
It’s expensive for San Francisco’s local online and ofine businesses to enable same-day
deliveries since courier companies charge for the full round trip.
Rickshaw turns any business into Amazon Prime by enabling same-day deliveries. They
aggregate demand across customers into dense, efcient routes that are ofered to their
partner couriers. This makes deliveries reliable and afordable for customers while
ofering predictable route durations and guaranteed pay for couriers.
Same-day deliveries start at $5.50.

More about Rickshaw
• The Story of Divya Bhat, Rickshaw’s Founder (YCombinator)
• YC-Backed Rickshaw provides an API for Local Deliveries (TechCrunch)
• Rickshaw uses Zipcars for same-day delivery: Interview with Divya Bhat (Zipcar
Blog)
...
Series A
Bringg

New York, Chicago and Tel Aviv, ~30 employees, Founded in 2013
$10M in total funding, Cambridge Capital, Ituran, Pereg Ventures
Bringg is a platform for enterprises to manage on-demand and last-mile deliveries.

Bringg enriches the existing logistics infrastructure so companies have capabilities like
Amazon and Uber.
Their platform can connect with a variety of APIs, allowing large businesses to create a
system that works with their existing infrastructure.
They have customers in 80 countries across industries like retail, e-commerce, food and
beverage, and more.
More about Bringg
• Bringg raises $5M so any business can ofer an Uber-like experience (TechCrunch)
• Bringg CTO: Delivering on-demand experiences ‘Never Existed Before’ (Street Fight
Mag)

Cargomatic
Venice, CA, ~52 employees, Founded in 2013
$11M in total funding, Series A led by Canaan Partners
Getting instant access to local truckers is hard. Conversely, most truckers don’t run on
full capacity because they’re not discovered easily.
Cargomatic is a marketplace of shippers and local truckers. Shippers get instant access
to a network of trusted local truckers. They’re able to track the movement of their goods
in real-time and get status updates via email. Because Cargomatic aggregates loads
across customers, shippers generally get a cheaper price.
Boxed, Hudson, and MIQ Logistics use the service. Cargomatic operates in New York,
Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
More about Cargomatic

• The Sharing Economy goes B-to-B (Hufngton Post)
• “Uber for Trucking”, like Cargomatic, is changing the Freight Industry (Forbes)
Dolly
Seattle, WA, ~27 employees, Founded in 2013
$10M in total funding, Maveron
Dolly is basically Uber for furniture and other large items.
Customers can request a helper and/or a truck from their app to help with moving
furniture between apartments or storage units, picking up big items purchased on
Craigslist, or donating furniture.
The company operates in Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Diego, and Seattle.

More about Dolly
• On-demand moving app, Dolly raises $8M in Series A (TechCrunch)
• Dolly: A new way to move bulky items (GeekWire)
Flexport
$29M in total funding, Series A led by Founders Fund
Transatlantic shipping is a laborious process. A business has to discover and talk to

multiple freight forwarders, compare prices manually, track and coordinate over phone
and email.
Flexport is a licensed freight forwarder built around a web application. Businesses can
easily understand, purchase, manage, and track the services required for global trade. It

brings transparency and eases air and ocean freight forwarding.
The Ministry of Supply, Bluesmart, Tortuga Blankets, Ring.com, and MeUndies use
Flexport to simplify their supply chain.
More about Flexport
• Flexport is unsexiest trillion-dollar startup (TechCrunch)
• Flexport takes on the freight world (ReadWrite)
Haven
$14M in total funding, Series A led by Spark Capital
90% of all physical goods in the world are shipped in standard steel shipping containers,
and nearly all of those shipments are arranged via email and phone. This is a non-

transparent process and shippers often end up paying more.
Haven ofers a marketplace of ocean and air freight carriers. They smooth out the
booking process by allowing shippers to bid on guaranteed shipping container capacity
and save up to 20%. Freight carriers receive the best price among bidders.
They operate globally with 15 of the top 20 ocean carriers and every major freight
forwarder.
More about Haven
• Haven streamlines the process of ocean freight shipping (TechCrunch)
• Haven raised $11M for its ocean freight booking platform (Venture Beat)
KeepTruckin ELD

$10.3M in total funding, Series A led by Index Ventures
The majority of truckers maintain paper logbooks to record their hours of service
(HOS). Drivers then share those paper logs with their feet, which is a largely manual
process that necessitates sorting faxes and mail documents.
The federal government has mandated that by December 2017 all commercial vehicles
must record HOS using an engine-connected Electronic Logging Device (ELD), which
will impact 4.5 million drivers across the US and Canada. The KeepTruckin ELD
captures the necessary HOS data and reports on it via a feet manager dashboard.
More than just an ELD mandate compliance solution — the KeepTruckin Dashboard for
feets helps managers automatically edit driver logs, track vehicles in real-time, and
communicate with drivers.
Over 250,000 drivers and 10,000 feets with sizes ranging up to 600 vehicles use
KeepTruckin electronic logs.
More about KeepTruckin
• KeepTruckin raises $8M to bring Logging Miles for Truckers (TechCrunch)
• KeepTruckin ELD now on FMCSA’s registry (Overdrive)

Matternet
Menlo Park, CA, ~20 employees, Founded in 2011
$13M in total funding, Andreessen Horowitz
Matternet is solving the “last mile” logistics problem by building cloud software and
automated drones for lightweight goods. Designed exclusively for transportation, their
networks seamlessly connect smart drones, cloud software, and safe ground stations to
an intuitive mobile app, enabling easy set-up and operation.
Their frst product, Matternet ONE drone and cloud software is certifed for beyond-
line-of-sight logistics operations by the Swiss Aviation Authorities.
They partnered with Swiss Post and Swiss Airlines where they worked with their
pharma customers. They recently worked with UNICEF and the Government of Malawi,

delivering HIV diagnostics. The startup, also, used its product in Papua New Guinea to
distribute tuberculosis medication. Moreover, they’re working in the Dominican
Republic, with the Inter-American Development Bank, to connect public health system
facilities located in hard-to-access locations.
More about Matternet
• Matternet is building drones that could save lives (Business Insider)
• No Roads? There’s a drone for that (TED)
• Innovating to fght tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea (Doctors without Borders)
Omni
$10M in total funding, Series A led by Highland Capital Partners

Urban dwellers, who have less space in their homes, routinely face the challenge of
fnding room for the stuf they need but don’t use every day — usually resorting to a
storage facility if they want to store extra stuf.
Omni turns storage into an on-demand service. The company allows consumers to
schedule a pickup of things from their home and store them at Omni’s warehouses.
Omni itemizes items (with photos) so customers can view, organize, and fnd what they
need on Omni’s mobile app.
The company recently rolled out the capability to allow customers to lend stored items
to friends — it handles the delivery and return.
More about Omni
• How Omni envisions a true ‘sharing economy’ (Fortune)
• Omni lets users lend stuf to friends from virtual closets (SF Chronicle)
• Omni bags $7M in Series A (VC News Daily)

ShipHawk
Santa Barbara, CA, ~46 employees, Founded in 2012
$6M in total funding, Series A led by DN Capital
When shipping large items or items that don’t ft in a box, fnding specialized carriers is
hard and pricing is opaque.
ShipHawk is a technology platform that ofers instant price comparisons, optimal

delivery options, and intelligent packaging solutions that minimize costs and improve
sales. The company has a network of over 200 parcel, LTL, truckload, blanket wrap, and
home delivery options.
Additionally, ShipHawk generates required shipping documentation (labels,

commercial invoices, and BOLs). Using their API, retailers can provide shipping price
comparisons in the shopping cart, customer-facing order tracking, and aggregated data
and insights across all shipping types.

More about ShipHawk
• ShipHawk launches $5M led by DN Capital (TechCrunch)
• ShipHawk democratizes e-commerce shipping (Internet Retailer)
• ShipHawk named one of CIOReview’s 20 most promising e-commerce solution

providers in 2016 (Business Wire)
Shippo
$9M in total funding, Series A led by Union Square Ventures
The shipping industry is fragmented, difcult to navigate, and unless you’re an

enterprise with established shipping volume, it’s difcult to negotiate prices.

Shippo provides a simple API for developers to integrate into their apps to enable multi-
carrier shipping and rate shopping. They also have a web dashboard that enables
businesses to start shipping by connecting with platforms like Shopify or uploading a
CSV. Shippo is able to get huge discounts because they’re able to negotiate for them
with the aggregate volume of all their customers.
Shippo ofers the full shipping stack: domestic and international shipping, return labels,
insurance, address verifcation, and tracking packages. Businesses can use Shippo to
connect with a multitude of shipping carriers such as USPS, FedEx, UPS, DHL, and
even UberRUSH.
GoDaddy, Shyp, and MemeBox are a few customers.
More about Shippo
• Laura Wu, CEO Shippo, on building a culture of transparency (AZ Tech Beat)
• Union Square Ventures Leads Series A Investment in Shippo (PR Newswire)

Solvoyo
Boston, MA, ~31 employees, Founded in 2005
$1.25M in total funding, 3TS Capital Partners, 212 Limited
Solvoyo provides a single platform for all the needs of a sophisticated supply chain.
It has 3 segments: strategic planning, tactical planning, and operational planning.

Solvoyo forecasts demand to realign inventory, optimizes delivery performance by
reducing inbound and outbound transportation costs, and balances cost and service
across omni-channel networks.
More about Solvoyo

• Solvoyo named SDCE100 Top Supply Chain company in 2016 (CBS8)
• Solvoyo’s Chief Innovation Ofcer named a 2016 supply chain pro (PR Web)
Trucker Path
Mountain View, CA, ~55 employees, Founded in 2013
$21.5M in total funding, Renren Inc., Wicklow Capital
There are about 350,000 drivers who are independent owner-operators, while
companies with less than 10 trucks make up 90% of the industry. These drivers and
companies don’t get enough work because they are hard to discover. Trucker Path aims
to get them to the “gig economy” with a mobile app that connects them to available
freights to keep their trucks full.
The app has attracted over 450,000 monthly active users, with a 20% growth over the
last 6 months.

More about Trucker Path
• Trucker Path raises $20M to be the Uber for Truckers (TechCrunch)
• Trucking? There’s fnally an app for that (Fortune)
Zipline
$12M in total funding, Series A led by Visionnaire Ventures
More than two billion people in the world lack adequate access to essential medical

products, often due to challenging terrain and gaps in infrastructure.
Zipline has designed a small autonomous robot airplane (a “zip”) that can carry
vaccines, medicine, or blood to inaccessible areas. A health worker can place an order by
a text message, and within minutes a zip is launched. The medical products are dropped
of, landing gently and accurately at the health facility.
With a partnership with the Government of Rwanda, Zipline is delivering blood

products to 20 hospitals and health centers in Rwanda. It is also ramping up to launch
operations in rural US communities.
More about Zipline
• A Life-Saving drone takes of in Rwanda (Fast Company)
• Zipline will deliver blood and medicine to rural US communities (Inc)
...
Series B

Deliv
Menlo Park, CA, ~50 employees, Founded in 2012
$40M in total funding, Series B by UPS
Deliv is a crowd-sourced, last mile logistics company that powers scheduled, same-day
delivery, and returns for omni-channel retailers, local businesses, and eCommerce
companies. Deliv delivers same day by picking goods from brick and mortar stores,
efectively turning them into strategic distribution centers. The Deliv same-day delivery
option is integrated into a retailer’s existing checkout process, allowing the retailer to
preserve the customer shopping experience and maintain ownership of data from each
customer transaction.
Deliv services over 4,000 retailers and businesses, including Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s,
Google Express, and Best Buy.
More about Deliv
• Deliv scores win with Wallgreens’ deal (TechCrunch)
• Interview with Deliv CEO, Daphne Carmeli (StreetFight)
• Walmart is piloting same-day delivery with Deliv, Uber, and Lyft (Walmart Blog)

Elementum
Mountain View, CA, ~146 employees, Founded in 2012
$67M in total funding, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Flex, AME Cloud Ventures
All large companies that sell physical products have to deal with hundreds of suppliers,
manufacturers, and distributors. However, most companies use archaic software to
manage the process, which slows communication and is not proactive.
Elementum is the real-time supply chain platform, powered by the world’s Product
Graph™ to digitally map the $25T product economy. The cloud software unifes
procurement, logistics, manufacturing, and inventory operations to provide a full
picture of the global product economy for smarter, more proactive decision-making.
With actionable insights and early warning signs to assign, collaborate on, and resolve
issues — from C-level to boots-on-the-ground — Elementum delivers both a bird’s eye for

executives and a deep-dive on individual pieces of the supply chain.
Elementum’s customers include Fortune 500 companies spanning the automotive,

healthcare, food & beverage, industrial consumer, and technology sectors.
More about Elementum
• Why Box Chief invested in Elementum (The New York Times)
• Elementum snares $44M in funding (ZDNet)
• Elementum is solving every product company’s biggest problem (Business Insider)
Narvar
San Bruno, CA, ~94 employees

$34M in total funding, Battery Ventures, Accel Partners
Online retailers are moving towards providing a branded customer experience across
the entire customer lifecycle, which doesn’t end when the customer has made a
purchase. Delivery tracking, the actual delivery, and the occasional return play a big role
in customer loyalty.
Narvar provides branded experience to online retailers post-purchase by providing

integration with major carriers for automatic selection, sending automatic delivery
updates to customers, and taking care of returns.
Major brands like Sephora, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Bass Pro Shops are using
Narvar to simplify their deliveries and provide a wow customer experience, post-
purchase.
More about Narvar
• Narvar raises $22M to help retailers deliver good without frustrating customers
(TechCrunch)
• Online Retailers should care more about the post-purchase experience (Harvard
Business Review)

Roadie
Atlanta, GA, ~28 employees, Founded in 2014
$25M in total funding, Warren Stephens of Stephens Inc., UPS Strategic Enterprise
Fund, Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures, Square co-founder Jim McKelvey (among
others)
Roadie is a community based on-the-way delivery network.
The software utilizes unused capacity in passenger vehicles, connecting people who
have items to send with drivers already heading in the right direction. Consumers create
a gig for delivery or shipment and the app provides options to choose from multiple
drivers going in the direction.
The app has more than 250,000 downloads and 20,000 drivers nationwide. From
cupcakes to couches and everything in between, thousands of items have been sent
through the Roadie network.
More about Roadie
• Roadie is like Uber for shipping (TechCrunch)
• Roadie pays drivers to deliver users’ packages to destinations on their way (Tech

Times)
Shyp
$62M in total funding, Series B led by Kleiner Perkins Caufeld & Buyers
Busy city dwellers hate waiting in line to send packages.
Shyp makes shipping anything easy. Customers snap a photo of their items and request
a pickup. A Shyp courier picks up the items at convenient time and location, fgures out
whether USPS, FedEx, or UPS is the cheapest option, and ships the package to the
destination.

The company operates in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. They
have tens of thousands of customers with a healthy engagement rate. The company’s
number of shipments increased 500% last year and customer growth is 20% month-on-
month.
More about Shyp
• How Shyp is shaking up Shipping (Fast Company)
• Shyp rolls out bulk shipping options to ease online seller frustrations (Business
Insiders)
• Shyp builds on eBay partnership (E-Commerce Bytes)
Transfx
New York, NY,~73 employees, Founded in 2010

$36.5M in total funding, New Enterprise Associates, Canvas Ventures
In 2014, freight truck operators logged a stunning 54 billion miles in the US without
carrying any inventory.
Transfx is a web and mobile app that matches customers who need interstate freight
shipping with truck drivers who have extra capacity. The system tracks shipments, texts
drivers, alerts customers when a shipment is delayed, and calculates drivers’ fuel taxes.
Transfx does a million dollars a month in a revenue and helps truckers get paid within
24 hours of a completed shipment.
More about Transfx
• Transfx raises $22M in Series B funding (FinSMEs)
• Transfx launches a driver-centric app (Market Wired)
...
Series C+

Postmates
$138M in total funding, Series D led by Tiger Global
Postmates’ vision is to power local, on-demand logistics to allow any type of merchant
to deliver anything at scale.
The company has the largest on-demand delivery feet (20,000+) in 40 US metropolitan
markets. They have built partnerships with major brands like Starbucks, Chipotle, 7-
Eleven, Walgreens, and Apple. With access to a large customer base and $138M in
funding, Postmates is best poised to streamline this industry.
More about Postmates
• How Postmates survived and thrived despite the naysayers (Time)
• Leaked Postmates fnancials suggest it might be doing better than everyone thought
(TechCrunch)
• Postmates launches subscription service in Philadelphia (Business Journal)

DoorDash
San Francisco, CA, ~_ employees, Founded in 2013
$187M in total funding, Series C led by Sequoia Capital
Local restaurants are limited to a small area when it comes to deliveries. DoorDash uses
their feet of drivers to enable restaurants to deliver to customers that were previously
hard to reach.
Their goal is to empower small business owners to ofer delivery in an afordable and
convenient way, and are working towards that mission by frst enabling food deliveries.
DoorDash has over a million customers and operate in many major cities across the US.

More about DoorDash
• DoorDash wins 2016 most Customer-Centric award (MarketWired)
• DoorDash now delivers alcoholic drinks with meals in the Bay Area (Venture Beat)
• Tony Xu, DoorDash CEO, on building a thriving business in the difcult on-demand
market (This Week in Startups)
UberRUSH
$15B in total funding
UberRUSH, which now operates in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, provides
cheap, on-demand delivery solution for local businesses.

Uber uses cars on the route or bikes for deliveries. It also provides an API and pre-built
integrations for e-commerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce.
With UberRUSH, businesses can request pickups, track shipments, and notify
customers.
More about UberRUSH
• Uber makes its delivery service available to any merchant (Fortune)
• UberRUSH now delivers same day from Nordstorm, Rent the Runway, and other
big retail states (TechCrunch)
...
Epilogue:
• Let us know in the comments which great companies we missed.
• If this article was valuable for you, please recommend / share.
• If you’re looking to join one of these companies, but don’t know where to start, let’s
chat!
About the author:
Sid Saha is a technical growth marketer specializing in SaaS marketing. He helps

startups grow with SEO, conversion optimization, and product virality. He’s worked
as a Product Marketer and Applications Architect in AdTech and social platform
startups. You can reach him here.
Thanks to Sid Saha.

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If you’re new to the world of logistics, here’s a list of basic terminology.

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with links to their open job postings.

$1.28M in total funding, Seed round led by Winklevoss Capital

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More about BuddyTruck

• BuddyTruk is like Lyft for moving (TechCrunch)

• Crazy Expansion: BuddyTruk expands to Chicago and Austin. (ChicagoInno, Austin

• Interview with Brian Foley, Founder and CEO (Blogtrepreneur)

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$3M in total funding, Seed round led by Semil Shah

The ofce commute in San Francisco is expensive and time consuming.

• Chariot: The Last Bus Startup Standing (TechCrunch)

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ClearMetal’s platform has shown millions of dollars of incremental savings potential

More about ClearMetal

• ClearMetal on Carbon Emissions Reduction (YouTube)

• Eric Schmidt is upbeat on Predictive Solution for Ocean Carriers (Inc)

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Darkstore is an on-demand delivery 3PL. They’re enabling e-commerce brands to house

More about Darkstore

• WunWun founder launches Darkstore, an on-demand fulfllment platform

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$2M in total funding, Andreessen Horowitz and Precursor Ventures

Dispatch is building Carry, an autonomous robot with 4 compartments and a weight of

More about Dispatch

• Self-driving delivery vehicle raises $2M seed round (TechCrunch)

• Self-driving delivery robots are coming to a sidewalk near you (Forbes)

• Robots may beat drones in a race to deliver packages (SF Gate)

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$1.9M in total funding, Seed round led by Motus Ventures

More about Doorman

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• Doorman acquires Luna to create consolidated package delivery service

• Doorman expands to Chicago and New York (TechCrunch)

$3.45M in total funding, Y-Combinator Backed

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More about EasyPost

• How EasyPost handles rise in Delivery Service Demand (Bloomberg)

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$3.8M in total funding, Seed round led by A.Capital Ventures

Lugg makes it efortless to get anything moved.

More about Lugg

• Lugg hits Silicon Valley (TechCrunch)

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$3.9M in total funding, Seed round led by Semil Shah

More about Onfeet

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• Onfeet has powered over 1 million on-demand deliveries (TechCrunch)

• How Onfeet is rapidly becoming the Uber for delivery (Inc)

Same-day deliveries start at $5.50.

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More about Rickshaw

• The Story of Divya Bhat, Rickshaw’s Founder (YCombinator)

• YC-Backed Rickshaw provides an API for Local Deliveries (TechCrunch)