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Christopher Mims,
Technology columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Alongside life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, you can now add another inalienable right: two-day shipping on practically everything. Mom-and-pop shops and even midsize retailers can no longer assume buyers will put up with getting their goods several days later…Sellers are turning to startups like ShipBob.
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November 18, 2024
Entrepreneur Of The Year® US Technology Software Award winner: Dhruv Saxena, CEO and Co-Founder ShipBob
After receiving recognition as a Midwest award winner, Dhruv Saxena has been recognised as the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Award winner.
October 8, 2024
ShipBob Announces AI/ML-Driven Inventory Placement Program for Automated Distribution and Replenishment is Now Available to All Merchants in the U.S.
ShipBob announced that its Inventory Placement Program (“IPP”) is now fully available in the United States to all ecommerce merchants. IPP automates and optimises the process of distributing and rebalancing inventory across different regions of the United States through ShipBob’s AI-powered Decision Engine.
October 1, 2024
Chain Reaction: ShipBob’s Dhruv Saxena on Building Supply Chain Resilience Through Strategic Inventory Management
Chain Reaction is Sourcing Journal’s discussion series with industry executives to get their take on today’s logistics challenges and learn about ways their company is working to keep the flow of goods moving. Here, Dhruv Saxena, CEO & co-founder of ShipBob, discusses how the supply chain and fulfilment platform is helping its customers navigate the ever-evolving logistics landscape with its suite of solutions—all while minimising costs and streamlining operations.
September 19, 2024
1871 Announces the 17th Annual Momentum Award Winners: Outstanding Tech CEO Award to Dhruv Saxena of ShipBob
The Outstanding Tech CEO award was given to Dhruv Saxena, co-founder and CEO of ShipBob. As the leader of one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North America, Saxena demonstrates the dedication and skills that it takes to be a successful driver of innovation. Since its founding in 2014, ShipBob has grown from operating out of Saxena’s Chicago apartment to thousands of square feet of warehouse space across the country.
September 4, 2024
ShipBob Expands Into Two New State-of-the-Art Facilities in the Midwest and Southwest, More Than Tripling Space of Previous Innovation Centers
ShipBob announced the move into two new state-of-the-art facilities located in North Aurora, Illinois and Fort Worth, Texas. These sites, referred to as ShipBob Innovation Centers, are each greater than 250,000 square feet in size and serve as the inventory receiving hubs within their respective regions that feed into ShipBob’s nearby spoke sites, which primarily focus on fulfilling direct-to-consumer and retail orders quickly.
August 28, 2024
Two in three Australian brands are looking abroad to scale up. Here’s why
For a mature market of 25 million consumers, many Australian retailers and brands are beginning to look offshore for growth – a path that offers tremendous opportunity but can come with daunting challenges. Global e-commerce logistics provider ShipBob recently released its Global State of Fulfilment Report, which suggests that 36 per cent of brands internationally will ship to new countries this year.
August 15, 2024
ShipBob Announces Section 321 Fulfilment from Both Canada & Mexico Fulfilment Centers
ShipBob today announced that three of its fulfilment centres near Toronto, Canada and one in Tijuana, Mexico are now fulfilling Section 321-compliant orders bound for consumers in the U.S. By leveraging the United States’ Section 321 entry type, merchants shipping high-tariff goods can reduce paperwork required to import, speed up delivery times to U.S. consumers, and ultimately save money on both transportation and duties.
August 13, 2024
Inc. 5000 2024: Meet the Companies Building the Future
ShipBob made the Inc 5000 list for the sixth consecutive year.
June 12, 2024
Chicago’s fastest-growing companies for 2024
Here are Chicago’s fastest-growing companies for 2024. No. 13: ShipBob
June 11, 2024
ShipBob Announces Adobe Commerce Integration & Becomes an Adobe Technology Partner at the Gold Level
ShipBob announced the launch of an Adobe Commerce integration, which enables merchants to fulfil Adobe Commerce orders via ShipBob. As a fulfilment partner in Adobe’s Technology Partner Program at the Gold level, ShipBob will provide scalable logistics solutions to Adobe Commerce merchants.
May 2, 2024
ShipBob Adds Gail Goodman, Former CEO of Constant Contact, to Board
ShipBob announced that Gail Goodman has joined the ShipBob Board of Directors. Goodman brings years of public company executive and board experience to ShipBob, having spent 17 years as CEO of Constant Contact, the trusted provider of online marketing tools for small businesses and nonprofits, including during its 8 years as a public company. Goodman has also served on the Board of Shopify since 2016 and currently serves on the Boards of Jobber and Entrepreneurship for All.
April 30, 2024
2024 Y Combinator Top Companies
We’re excited to announce the 2024 YC Top Companies list! This list features the YC alumni with the highest revenue in 2023 (sorted alphabetically, as revenue is confidential for most startups). Revenue is the clearest indicator of a startup’s success, and we’re excited to see so many different types of companies represented.
April 25, 2024
ShipBob Named Overall Fulfilment Solution of the Year 2024 by the Tech BreakThrough Awards
ShipBob was announced as the winner of “Overall Fulfilment Solution of the Year 2024” by The RetailTech Breakthrough Awards.
April 10, 2024
ShipBob Adds First Fulfilment Centre in Western Canada to Global Logistics Network
ShipBob today announced the opening of its latest fulfilment centre in British Columbia. This new location marks the first in ShipBob’s network’s to be in Western Canada and the fifth for ShipBob in Canada. Located in Surrey, B.C., the fulfilment centre is just outside of Vancouver.
April 4, 2024
FT ranking: The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2024
The FT is pleased to announce its fifth annual ranking of the fastest-growing companies in the Americas, covering a period that took in the pandemic and the end of rock-bottom interest rates. No. 94: ShipBob.
April 3, 2024
ShipBob Levels Up FreightBob Solution with Partnerships through Maersk and ECU Worldwide
ShipBob today announced the addition of two new freight partners, Maersk and ECU Worldwide, to its end-to-end managed freight and inventory distribution program, FreightBob.
March 5, 2024
America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes
To create the list, Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to identify 3,000 privately-held companies headquartered in the U.S. that employ more than 50 people and were founded between 2014 and 2021. Then, the companies were evaluated on three primary criteria: company reputation, employee satisfaction and growth. Ultimately, millions of data points were used to determine the company scores, and the 500 startups with the highest scores made our final ranking of America’s Best Startup Employers 2024 (see below).
February 1, 2024
ShipBob Adds First Independent Board Member, Former CEO of Grubhub, Adam DeWitt
ShipBob announced that Adam DeWitt has joined the ShipBob Board of Directors as its first independent member. DeWitt most recently spent twelve years at Grubhub as CFO, then President and ultimately CEO. During his tenure, Grubhub grew from $20 million in revenue to more than $2 billion. Prior to Grubhub, DeWitt served as CFO at optionsXpress until its sale to Charles Schwab in 2011. He also sits on the Board of Directors for RB Global (NYSE: RBA) and TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THF) and was on the Board of Directors of Reverb.com prior to its sale to Etsy.
January 17, 2024
ShipBob Unveils Its Third Annual State of Ecommerce Fulfilment Report
ShipBob released its third annual State of Ecommerce Fulfilment report based on ShipBob’s proprietary data across thousands of customers, as well as survey submissions from over 500 ecommerce executives, who cumulatively shipped hundreds of millions of units in 2023.
December 13, 2023
Holiday delivery deadlines: What shoppers need to know
Live from one of ShipBob’s Chicago area fulfilment centres, CNBC’s Courtney Reagan joins ‘Squawk Box’ with more the looming holiday delivery deadlines.
November 27, 2023
Record Cyber Monday sales expected
CNBC’s Courtney Reagan joins ‘Power Lunch’ to report on the holiday weekend retail sales and expectations for Cyber Monday, featuring data from ShipBob.
November 7, 2023
TikTok Is Bringing Logistics to the E-Commerce Dance
TikTok, the viral video-sharing platform, is betting heavily on logistics as it tries to turn its outsize streaming audience into a big share of the U.S. e-commerce market. TikTok is breaking from Amazon’s approach by outsourcing the logistics operations. The company is striking deals with logistics providers including ShipBob to store inventory and pick, pack and ship online orders. Those companies will then drop the packages into private delivery networks for delivery.
October 19, 2023
Direct Commerce UK Announces Winners of the 2023 Industry Awards
ShipBob was named as a winner at the UK Direct Commerce Awards. The award was presented to ShipBob in the fulfilment, delivery and logistics category.
October 18, 2023
ShipBob Hires Ex-Google VP, Catherine Lacavera, as Chief Legal Officer
ShipBob today announced the hiring of Catherine Lacavera as its first Chief Legal Officer. Lacavera joins ShipBob with over 20 years of experience building and leading successful legal and compliance teams, including having spent over 16 years at Google, where she oversaw global litigation, employment and regulatory investigations, and managed more than 300 attorneys and technical advisors.
September 27, 2023
ShipBob Partners With TikTok to Power “Fulfilled by TikTok” Logistics Solution in the US
ShipBob has partnered with TikTok to power ‘Fulfilled by TikTok,’ a logistics program. Brands, merchants, and creators selling on TikTok Shop can leverage ShipBob’s AI-driven fulfilment engine, network of fulfilment centres, and expertise to unlock nationwide inventory storage, best-in-class order fulfilment, and quick shipping. When customers place an order with a participating seller on TikTok Shop, the order is picked, packed, and shipped by ShipBob.
July 20, 2023
Ex-Amazon Exec Brings Inventory Obsession to ShipBob
Melissa Nick started a new role at ShipBob last month but she didn’t leave the customer obsession she learned at Amazon far behind. With 70 percent revenue growth and more than 100 million orders shipped through its network, ShipBob will double down on inventory placement under Nick, the omnichannel fulfilment platform’s first chief supply chain officer.
July 11, 2023
Amazon Prime Day will be a ‘bellwether’ for 2023 holiday shopping
“Delivery times are important, especially with certain products, and the way to do that is by getting the inventory as close to the customer as possible,” said ShipBob chief supply chain officer Melissa Nick, formerly Amazon’s VP of North America fulfilment. “How do you make sure there aren’t swimsuits in Minnesota all year but there in summer when you want them?… It’s a benefit to both customers and the companies when delivery is fast, driving down costs.”
June 27, 2023
ShipBob Taps Former Amazon Exec, Takes E-Commerce Services to Stores
Nick was most recently Amazon’s vice president of North America customer fulfilment, leading operations, planning and engineering teams across more than 250 fulfilment centres. At ShipBob, she said, she will focus on helping retailers place inventory as close to consumers as possible to cut shipping costs, speed delivery and fulfil orders through multiple distribution channels.
June 27, 2023
E-commerce fulfilment startup ShipBob snags new chief supply chain officer from Amazon
ShipBob is an e-commerce fulfilment startup that picks and packs orders for online sellers. The company has hired Amazon alum, Melissa Nick, as Its first-ever chief supply chain officer. Nick told Insider that Amazon executives join logistics startups because they like to build.
June 27, 2023
ShipBob Hires Amazon’s VP of North America Fulfilment, Melissa Nick, as Chief Supply Chain Officer
ShipBob today announced the hiring of Melissa Nick as its first Chief Supply Chain Officer. Melissa joins ShipBob with over 20 years of experience with the last 9+ years at Amazon, most recently serving as Amazon’s VP of North America Customer Fulfilment where she led operations, planning, and engineering teams across more than 250 fulfilment centres.
June 27, 2023
Inaugural YC Top Companies List by Revenue
Today we’re publishing a list that recognises the companies in the YC community that achieved the highest net revenue throughout 2022, presented in alphabetical order. Congratulations to everyone on the inaugural YC Top Companies List by Revenue!
June 15, 2023
The new Fast 50: Here are Chicago’s fastest-growing companies for 2023
No. 15: ShipBob. 5-year growth: 2,173.5%. E-commerce was not the ubiquitous industry it is today back when Divey Gulati and Dhruv Saxena started ShipBob in 2014. But the intervening years have given the co-founders time to perfect the complicated logistics of running an omnichannel fulfilment platform — which they mastered just in time for the e-commerce boom. Fast-forward to today, and ShipBob now serves 5,000 customers through its network of 26 fulfilment centres across five countries.
June 14, 2023
ShipBob launches in the Netherlands
Global fulfilment platform ShipBob is expanding to the Netherlands with the launch of a fulfilment centre. The new fulfilment centre is the company’s fifth European location. The company expects to start shipping parcels from the new location in July.
March 30, 2023
America’s Most Innovative Companies 2023
ShipBob ranked #1 in Culture and #1 in Process in the tech industry among the list of Fortune’s Most Innovative Companies 2023.
February 27, 2023
Top Private YC Companies – 2023
Since 2005, YC has funded over 4,000 startups, including many that have become household names. Discover the top private, public, and exited companies that are part of the YC community here. No. 46: ShipBob.
November 23, 2022
ShipBob unveils its first fulfilment centre in Sydney
Global ecommerce fulfilment solution and tech unicorn, ShipBob has opened a new fulfilment centre at Yennora in western Sydney. ShipBob’s first fulfilment in New South Wales and second in Australia, expands the company’s footprint for ecommerce brands that want to outsource shipping logistics.
November 21, 2022
Chain Reaction: ShipBob’s Dhruv Saxena on Improving Logistics and Lowering Costs
Chain Reaction is Sourcing Journal’s discussion series with industry executives to get their take on today’s logistics challenges and learn about ways their company is working to keep the flow of goods moving. Here, Dhruv Saxena, CEO & co-founder of ShipBob, discusses how the company handles receiving, inventory storage, order processing, picking, packing, shipping and returns for thousands of brands across the globe.
November 16, 2022
2022 Technology Fast 500 winners
2022 Technology Fast 500™ Rankings showcase the fastest-growing technology and
life sciences companies in North America.
October 26, 2022
ShipBob launches Amazon fulfilment service for e-commerce merchants
Global omnichannel fulfilment platform ShipBob has launched a new fulfilment option for online sellers that streamlines the process by which inventory is entered into Amazon’s network for delivery. The Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) Prep Automation service prepares and sends ShipBob merchants’ FBA inventory to Amazon for faster placement, allowing them to use ShipBob as their centralised inventory hub.
October 4, 2022
Why Chicago Is Home To The Future Of Logistics Tech
Mark Tebbe, Chair of World Business Chicago’s Innovation & Venture Council, elaborates further: “Chicago’s logistics tech sector represents a core aspect of our innovation and startup ecosystem. We’re home to some of the best founders who are driving innovation and solving some of the world’s most significant challenges when it comes to supply chain, logistics, and distribution.”
August 3, 2022
ShipBob CEO and Co-Founder, Dhruv Saxena, Featured on The CEO Series
Dhruv Saxena was featured on The CEO Series, a series highlighting Chicago’s top founders and executives. While touring ShipBob’s Cicero fulfilment centre, Dhruv discusses ShipBob’s humble beginngings, goals for the future, and more.
July 27, 2022
ShipBob Removes Some Complexity from International Orders
ShipBob is offering a new solution to merchants who use its fulfilment service designed to simplify some of the complexities of international selling while reducing customs delays. ShipBob’s Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) solution is designed to eliminate surprise fees and long delays experienced by international customers, which also has the benefit of reducing customer service inquiries.
July 7, 2022
ShipBob announces WMS for e-commerce brands with their own warehouses
For e-commerce brands that may own or lease warehouse space but lack the resources for full-fledged warehouse management systems, ShipBob has released a solution. Its WMS is a stand-alone warehouse management system (WMS) that helps these merchants benefit from a fulfilment operations platform while benefiting from ShipBob’s global network. The solution provides access to ShipBob’s courier infrastructure, support team and fulfilment experts. In addition, brands using the WMS also gain access to ShipBob’s suite of supply chain tools and access to ShipBob’s warehouse network in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia.
July 3, 2022
Logistics tech player ShipBob opens Dublin warehousing hub
ShipBob, a logistics tech company backed by Softbank, has opened a fulfilment centre (packing warehouse) in Dublin. The Chicago-headquartered company, which is valued at over $1bn (€950m), opened the facility in Blanchardstown as part of its growing presence in Europe.
June 30, 2022
Kristen Bell Narrates Children’s Book To Remind People There Is Still A War In Ukraine
While Yumi has played a large role in the formation of Operation Sunflower by bringing on more than a dozen direct to consumer brands, the project came to fruition through the leadership of Frazer Kinsley, the logistics expert behind Kinsley Partners and an angel investor. Together with Geodis and ShipBob, leaders in the world of global transport who committed to assistance with freight and freight costs, Operation Sunflower is now one of the only wholly-civilian supply lines bringing aid directly into Ukraine from the Polish border.
June 16, 2022
ShipBob announces integration with customer platform Klaviyo
Omnichannel fulfilment platform ShipBob has announced an integration with customer platform Klaviyo. The direct integration will give joint customers of the companies a unified post-purchase and shipping experience, ShipBob said. Klaviyo’s platform collect all of a company’s customer data as it is updated in real time and makes that information accessible in the same platform used for sending email and SMS messages. Integrated with ShipBob’s platform, the new offering will lead to new opportunities for customer engagement, ShipBob said.
May 20, 2022
Fulfilment Platform ShipBob Launches Freight Transportation Solution FreightBob Opens New Facility in Europe
ShipBob is offering a new freight transportation solution called FreightBob, a week after ShipBob announced it is opening its first fulfilment centre in mainland Europe. Dhruv Saxena, CEO and Co-Founder of ShipBob, joins Cheddar News’ Closing Bell to discuss.
April 6, 2022
Huge opportunities for ecommerce brands brave enough to diversify: ShipBob’s Enda Breslin
Enda Breslin is General Manager EMEA of ShipBob, a tech-enabled third-party logistics platform that fulfils orders for ecommerce businesses. Launched in 2014, the company gives brands the analytics to track and ship stock globally. I caught up with Enda to find out more about his role. We also discussed the biggest challenges (and opportunities) for ecommerce brands, as well as the evolution of the ecommerce industry.
April 5, 2022
FT ranking: The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2022
The third annual FT ranking of The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies captures the resilience of businesses as they adapted to the initial onslaught of the Covid pandemic, in 2020. No. 105: ShipBob.
March 31, 2022
Why ‘free’ shipping isn’t free
“Anyone can offer an Amazon Prime two-day shipping. It’s just the cost that…might incur in providing that service,” Dhruv Saxena, co-founder of third-party logistics company ShipBob, told CNBC. He estimates it may cost a company anywhere from $25 to $35 for a typical two-day shipping rate.
March 15, 2022
The Retail Tech 100: The top retail tech companies of 2022
The Retail Tech 100 is CB Insights’ annual ranking of the 100 most promising B2B retail tech companies in the world. A few of the companies target the needs of small online businesses, whose fulfilment needs continue to grow with the acceleration of e-commerce growth. ShipBob, for instance, serves direct-to-consumer brands with its fulfilment and shipping network.
March 3, 2022
Survey Says More Brands Expanding to Global Fulfilment This Year
Supply chain headwinds and disruptions may have been the talk of the retail industry in 2021, but that’s not stopping brands from trying to extend their global ambitions. Approximately 56 percent of brands plan to either ship or fulfil orders from new countries in 2022, according to a recent report from omnichannel fulfilment platform ShipBob.
January 6, 2022
Small retailers crave Amazon and Walmart’s power to avoid supply chain chaos. Logistics startups have discovered a new way to help them out.
ShipBob is an e-commerce fulfilment startup with more than $300 million in funding from SoftBank and Bain Capital Ventures, among others. It provides software, warehousing, and packing and shipping services to small online sellers. In October, it started piloting a program to help online sellers get goods from China to the US ahead of Black Friday, at the request of anxious sellers concerned that low inventories would jeopardize their sales. “These big retailers like Amazon’s of the world — they’ve figured out a way by basically getting their own charter flights or their ocean liners and containers to get inventory from China into their US fulfilment centres,” ShipBob founder and CEO Dhruv Saxena told Insider. Batching small sellers’ goods together to create a full container helps ShipBob get space on ships to do the same.
December 30, 2021
Retailers brace for the holiday return rush—Here’s how it works
’Tis the season for holiday returns. As shoppers buy more and more stuff online, retailers are increasingly offering “returnless” refunds. CNBC’s Courtney Reagan explains why the “just keep it” strategy actually benefits retailers. Featuring ShipBob CEO, Dhruv Saxena.
December 30, 2021
Investors Are Piling Into Supply-Chain Technology
An investment rush into logistics technology is creating a herd of unicorns in the race to digitize operations at the centre of the world’s supply-chain gridlock. Newly minted unicorns, or companies that exceed $1 billion valuations, in the logistics sector in 2021 include e-commerce fulfilment specialist ShipBob Inc., digital warehouse.
November 24, 2021
Good Luck Trying to Fix the Supply Chain Crisis
“Any one of the issues that led to this would have caused problems,” says Enda Breslin of ShipBob, a global fulfilment firm. “But all of them put together have caused these massive issues we’re hearing about right now.” The ramifications are enormous, from spiking prices for Christmas presents to a run on Black Friday bargains, empty supermarket shelves, nonexistent car sales, and a frantic grab for the shipping containers usually used to pack and send items around the globe.
November 11, 2021
ShipBob Launches B2B Fulfilment Suite with EDI Compliance for B2B Distribution & Retail Dropshipping for Brick-and-Mortar & Online Retail Sales
ShipBob announced the launch of their B2B Fulfilment Suite and new API capabilities, enabling their merchants to sell throughout the entire B2B ecosystem, powering retail dropshipping and wholesale shipping, which will connect with hundreds of major retailers.
November 8, 2021
US e-commerce unicorn ShipBob announces European expansion; to open 5 fulfilment centres in 2022
US cloud-based logistics unicorn ShipBob helps SME brands compete with Amazon by giving them cheaper and faster deliveries. In a recent development, the company has announced a major European expansion wherein it will open 20 fulfilment centres as it looks to uncover the next unicorn consumer brands in the UK and capitalise on the continued e-commerce surge.
November 8, 2021
The upstarts snapping at Amazon’s heels in UK’s online delivery wars
Awash with fresh cash, the newcomers are fanning out across the UK and the Continent, in a bid to match Amazon’s scale and reach. Enda Breslin, ShipBob’s European boss, says the expansion comes off the back of huge demand for online deliveries during the pandemic, when many businesses became far more reliant on internet sales amid store closures.
October 27, 2021
Why ShipBob Is Quickly Becoming The Best E-Commerce Fulfilment Service
Fast forward from 2014 to 2021. The ShipBob founders are realizing their vision. Their platform empowers thousands of merchants with a single view of their businesses across all of their sales channels, products, inventory, orders, and shipments, which allows them to leverage analytics and reporting to run their businesses effectively. By creating a platform that takes the pressure of fulfilment off the shoulders of entrepreneurs, ShipBob helps them reach their goals. And those goals are as unique as each of the thousands of ShipBob customers. Their stories highlight the value of the platform ShipBob has built.
September 24, 2021
1871 Announces the Winners of the 14th Annual Momentum Awards
1871’s first hybrid Momentum Awards honors seven distinguished individuals and companies for their contributions and commitment to the Chicago technology and innovation community. The CityLIGHTS Award was presented to ShipBob as a beacon in the Chicago tech community.
September 16, 2021
ShipBob Expands Platform Ahead of Holiday Shopping
Global eCommerce fulfilment startup ShipBob announced that it has added a new customisation suite for gift notes and kitting, an integration with eCommerce customer service platform Gorgias, and an integration with commerce solution Linnworks in its latest software update. ShipBob customers can now add customer sender names to shipping labels and use custom boxes, poly mailers and inserts in direct-to-consumer orders.
August 17, 2021
Introducing the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America
Explore Inc.’s annual ranking of the private companies with the most proven track records.
No. 683: ShipBob.
July 10, 2021
Soaring warehouse demand boosts commercial real estate market as office vacancies mount
After ShipBob decided last July to let staffers work from anywhere, the logistics start-up had its landlord erect a wall in the middle of its Chicago headquarters so half the space could be rented out to another company. On March 1, the office reopened at reduced capacity for socially distanced meetings. But while it’s using less office space, ShipBob’s real estate needs have been expanding at a breakneck pace. The company, which provides fulfilment services to online retailers, has more than doubled its warehouse count since mid-2020 to 24 locations today, including four outside the U.S., with plans to reach 35 by the end of 2021.
July 7, 2021
ShipBob Launches First Australia-Based Fulfilment Centre in Melbourne
ShipBob expands its fulfilment network into its fifth country to more efficiently reach consumers in Australia, as well as four new domestic sites in the United States.
July 1, 2021
YC Top Companies
Here is a list of the top Y Combinator companies by valuation and top exits as of July 2021. No. 35: ShipBob.
July 1, 2021
Why Chicago May Be The Best City To Find A Tech Job
The city of Chicago is uniting to attract the tech talent needed to power a herd of rapidly growing unicorns – nine this year already – and a region full of established companies accelerating their digital transformation, such as Allstate and Caterpillar. Chicago is on a record pace for startups achieving valuation of at least $1 billion this year. ShipBob, the latest startup to achieve unicorn status, announced Tuesday that it raised a $200M Series E round that values the company over a billion.
June 29, 2021
Bain’s leadership of a $200 million investment in ShipBob is a bet that all e-commerce businesses are hungry for same-day shipping to compete with Amazon
Bain Capital Ventures has led two rounds of investment for e-commerce fulfilment startup ShipBob. The startup aims to provide Amazon-equivalent online order fulfilment for companies of all sizes. ShipBob will boot up around 10 new warehouses in the US and Europe this year. Bain partner Ajay Agarwal told Insider the size of this influx is related to the size of the market and the crucial milestones ShipBob has reached in the last year.
June 29, 2021
ShipBob nabs $200M at a $1B+ valuation to help e-commerce companies run logistics like Amazon’s
E-commerce saw a massive surge of activity and growth in 2020; and while we may hear a lot about how big companies like Amazon got even bigger during the Covid-19 pandemic, that rising tide also lifted a lot of smaller boats. And that, in turn, has had a big impact on the wider e-commerce ecosystem. In the latest development, ShipBob, which has built an operation and tech platform that today works with some 5,000 e-commerce businesses to run shipping and logistics like their bigger rivals, has raised $200 million.
June 29, 2021
Logistics Company ShipBob Raises $200 Million
ShipBob Inc., a company that helps small and midsize e-commerce companies fulfil orders, has reached a valuation of more than $1 billion with its latest round of funding. The company’s $200 million Series E funding round—led by Bain Capital Ventures—comes nearly a year after the company announced a $68 million Series D round. That round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. With the current round, ShipBob has raised $330.5 million.
June 11, 2021
Crain’s Fast 50 2021: Here are the fast growing companies in Chicago
No. 5: ShipBob. Throughout the 2020 pandemic year, e-commerce gained momentum as malls and retail stores everywhere went into lockdown. That only drove more business to ShipBob, which is rapidly expanding around the country as a significant shipping alternative to Amazon. Online shopping rose at least 20 percent amid COVID-19; ShipBob’s revenue doubled in 2020.
June 9, 2021
Logistics Providers See E-Commerce Momentum Continuing Post-Pandemic
Chicago-based e-commerce fulfilment provider ShipBob has added 10 facilities this year, for a total of 24 sites in the U.S. and Europe, and could add up to 10 more by the end of the year, said Chief Marketing Officer Casey Armstrong. “We see this buying behaviour in the U.S. and internationally as the new norm,” he said.
May 27, 2021
ShipBob adds free 2-day shipping for Walmart Marketplace sellers
E-commerce logistics company ShipBob is now able to fulfil two-day shipping for sellers using the Walmart Marketplace.
May 27, 2021
ShipBob Partners with Walmart to Enable 100% 2-Day Shipping Coverage for Ecommerce Brands
ShipBob today announced its official partnership with Walmart and is listed as a shipping and fulfilment solution for Walmart’s marketplace sellers. As a new 3PL participating in the Walmart’s TwoDay delivery program, ShipBob integrates with Walmart Marketplace to display Free 2-day delivery badging and fulfil 2-day orders for approved Walmart Marketplace sellers.
May 24, 2021
Making fulfilment more sustainable
Offsetting emissions becomes even more critical as businesses grow, says Casey Armstrong, chief marketing officer at ShipBob, which is working to make its fulfilment network carbon neutral. “As ShipBob continues to grow and become a larger global company, our impact on the Earth is more noticeable,” Armstrong says.
April 21, 2021
ShipBob offers carbon offsets for e-commerce brands through Pachama
E-commerce fulfilment company ShipBob is the latest to jump into the carbon offset business. The company, with 16 global facilities, will utilise Pachama to provide 100% carbon-neutral options for brands using the ShipBob platform.
April 13, 2021
FT ranking: The Americas’ fastest-growing companies 2021
The second annual FT Americas ranking offers a snapshot of the relative strength of companies as they entered the Covid pandemic — and points to those likely to have the resilience to emerge from the crisis in good health. No. 60: ShipBob
April 2, 2021
The retailer vs. brand battle has never been more intense
The battle between brands and retailers is not new, but it’s more acute than ever because of the options each side has. For brands, it’s never been easier to own and operate sales channels both online and IRL. Shopify, ShipBob and other e-commerce technology providers paired with logistics partners gives brands of all sizes the ability to create formidable online sales channels.
April 1, 2021
ShipBob Joins Shopify Plus as Certified App Partner for Order Fulfilment & Ecommerce Shipping
ShipBob today announced it achieved official Shopify Plus Certified App Partner status. With hundreds of Shopify Plus merchants already shipping millions of orders through ShipBob’s fulfilment network, becoming an official certified partner will deepen the relationship and open up ShipBob’s advanced technology and customisation of fulfilment to even more Plus merchants.
March 16, 2021
Brands are killing the wholesale model — can they kill retailers too?
For a long time, brands depended on Amazon to sell their products online. And until very recently, the idea of smaller retailers competing with Amazon online was laughable. But e-commerce technology providers and logistics companies have flipped the script. It may be a surprise, but mom-and-pop shops can now run online stores that compare very well to Amazon’s offerings. Store inventory and fulfil orders with ShipBob.
March 16, 2021
Inc. 5000 Regionals: Midwest 2021 – The Top 250 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Midwest
No.47: ShipBob. An e-commerce logistics technology company that provides fast shipping by helping merchants distribute their inventory more effectively.
March 11, 2021
After pumping $11 billion into e-commerce in 5 years, VCs are finally funding the risky warehousing startups they’ve been avoiding
When Dhruv Saxena first started fundraising for his startup ShipBob in 2014, he knew that finding the right investors was just as important as funding his startup at all. Seven years later, his most recent round was led by SoftBank with Y Combinator, Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Hyde Park Ventures in tow. Saxena founded ShipBob with the intention of seizing on a particular segment of e-commerce businesses.
March 10, 2021
ShipBob Launches as Global Fulfilment Partner for Square Online Sellers as ShipBob Surpasses Their 25 Millionth Shipment
ShipBob today announced its partnership with Square Online. This partnership will enable millions of Square sellers to offer fast and affordable shipping to their customer base.
March 9, 2021
The 10 most innovative logistics companies of 2021
This year’s most innovative logistics companies offered clever solutions to the numerous, unforeseeable problems of moving product in 2020—from managing returns by mail, to reallocating trucking contracts from lagging to busy businesses, to helping small companies ship product as quickly as Amazon Prime. While much of the world paused, these companies kept our essential goods moving quickly and safely.
Number 8: ShipBob
March 9, 2021
ShipBob boosts UK, US ground capacity for e-commerce shippers
ShipBob is adding capacity to its fulfilment network and boosting its delivery options by building out a last-mile delivery network for e-commerce customers.
March 5, 2021
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son spent $100 billion building an interconnected tech empire.
Dhruv Saxena, CEO of SoftBank-backed ecommerce fulfiller ShipBob, told Bloomberg TV in September that SoftBank’s large network set it apart when his firm was considering various potential investors. “SoftBank has a portfolio of companies all across the world. As we think about expanding our fulfilment network abroad, having relationships in those SoftBank portfolio companies stood out to us.”
March 4, 2021
ShipBob Launches First UK-Based Fulfilment Centre in London, England
ShipBob expands its fulfilment network with a third international location to more efficiently reach consumers in the United Kingdom, as well as two new domestic sites in the United States, bringing the total global network count to 16 facilities.
January 12, 2021
YC Top Companies 2021
Here is a list of the top Y Combinator companies by valuation and top exits as of January 2021. Number 46: ShipBob.
December 15, 2020
US parcel couriers score high on reliability despite volume surge
Average transit times, based on shipping data from ShipBob, an e-commerce fulfilment provider, are trending up week-over-week for FedEx and USPS for the week ended Dec. 5. Weekly average transit times ticked upward for the week ended Dec 5 for FedEx and USPS, according to data compiled by ShipBob. Average transit time for FedEx was 4.23 days, up from 3.60 days for the week ended Nov 28, while USPS average transit time increased to 4.59 days from 4.15 days. UPS’ average transit time declined from 3.76 days to 3.25 days for the week ended Dec 5.
December 14, 2020
Crain’s 2020 Notable Rising Stars in Tech
These 25 up-and-comers are making a mark in Chicago-area technology. A number are entrepreneurs starting companies using technology to offer innovative products and services. These stars are contributing to Chicago’s profile as an emerging technology centre. Featured: Dhruv Saxena, CEO of ShipBob.
November 18, 2020
2020 Technology Fast 500™ awards: The fastest-growing technology companies in North America
ShipBob placed #116 on the Deloitte 2020 Technology Fast 500™ list of the fastest-growing companies in North America with a 1,029% growth rate.
November 6, 2020
Meet the Blazer winners from our 2020 Inno on Fire
Yesterday, the Chicago tech community gathered together—virtually, of course—for Chicago Inno’s 2020 Inno on Fire, our annual event that recognises the people and companies that are working to move Chicago tech forward. This year’s Inno Blazers are: B2B: ShipBob. Chicago startup ShipBob helps small companies ship their products more efficiently. To support its growth, the startup raised $68 million in a Series D round of funding in September.
October 9, 2020
50 reasons to feel cautiously optimistic about Chicago
The No. 1 company on Crain’s latest list of Chicago’s fastest-growing companies is the sort that represents everything that has made Chicago great—and which could continue to make this a vital place to live and work in the future, if this region plays its cards right.That company is ShipBob, a logistics-technology and shipping services provider that helps small and midsize businesses get their wares to customers quickly and efficiently.
October 9, 2020
Fast 50 company list 2020
ShipBob takes the number 1 spot for fastest-growing company in Chicago with an 83,384% growth rate over the last 5 years.
October 7, 2020
How Outsourcing Logistics Can Help SMBs Compete With Amazon
Saxena said his company is disrupting the existing order of online shopping within the connected economy by democratizing access to best-in-class logistics. “Our customers are actually direct-to-consumer eCommerce brands,” he said. “These brands just by definition are going directly to their customers, using their own storefront [and] own channels.”
October 5, 2020
2020 INNO ON FIRE: 50 people and companies heating up Chicago tech
As one of Chicago’s most notable logistics startups, ShipBob helps small companies ship their products more efficiently. To support its growth, the startup raised $68 million in a Series D round of funding in September. ShipBob says it currently has 10 fulfilment centres across the United States, Canada and Europe. The company opened six new fulfilment centres since April, including two international locations, and it expects to open two more U.S. facilities in the fourth quarter, and another 10 facilities across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia in 2021.
September 28, 2020
‘Bloomberg Technology’ Full Show (09/28/2020)
Watch CEO Dhruv Saxena as a guest on ‘Bloomberg Technology’ with Emily Chang at the 40-minute mark.
September 28, 2020
E-Commerce Surge Draws Investment to Online Retail Logistics Providers
Outsourced fulfilment specialist ShipBob raises $68 million in funding from investors including Softbank’s Vision Fund.
August 25, 2020
Despite COVID-19, 5 Chicago VCs say region is poised for success
Chicago has a long history of creating industry-leading companies and it doesn’t seem COVID-19 is slowing down the city. TechCrunch surveyed Chicago venture capitalists who remain optimistic despite the current crisis. Chicago has always been a logistics hub and is now becoming a logistics tech hub with companies like FourKites, ShipBob and Forager. COVID has significantly slowed down the growth of most startups while aiding a small few. There are some logistics startups (FourKites, ShipBob, Forager) that have come out on top.
Read more on TechCrunch.
August 18, 2020
Changing Channels: Prepping Brick-and-Mortar Merchandise for Online Sales
According to Todd Bills, chief logistics officer at ShipBob, the company’s receiving team inspects goods and takes photos to ensure that there is a match with what was expected. If multiple fulfilment centres are available, a retailer needs to consider where to house its inventory. For instance, a SKU that sells well in a certain region might warrant a greater stock in that location. Proper labelling also helps to ensure that the correct SKU is sent, since picking and packing typically relies on scanning for verification.
August 12, 2020
Introducing the 5,000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America
Explore Inc.’s annual ranking of the private companies with the most proven track records.
No. 441: ShipBob with 1,040% growth.
July 11, 2020
3 Ways Digital Commerce And Tech Booms, As Quarantine Looms
Some digital trends e-commerce giant ShipBob is seeing are:
- Toys and games shipments are up 66.51% month over month.
- After being relatively stable in early 2020, beauty products have seen a big spike since mid-March, noting 64.57% month over month.
- Unsurprisingly, fitness product sales benefited from the stay-at-home orders, and orders are up 112.23% month over month.
April 20, 2020
Ecommerce Entrepreneurship Grows as Unemployment Rises
Other ecommerce service providers, like third-party logistics company ShipBob, are providing real-time data on shipping trends. Using the ecommerce companies that use their fulfilment centres, they are able to categorize these products into niches like beauty and fitness to see which ones are trending. As their data shows, fitness sales from their customers has grown by more than 51 percent month over month, whereas their jewellerycustomers are down 39 percent over the same stretch.
April 6, 2020
FT ranking: the Americas’ fastest-growing companies
ShipBob ranks #37 on Financial Times’ The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2020, which highlights 500 businesses across the continent for whom innovation and creativity have paid off — attributes that will underpin resilience and enable many of them to thrive once the worst effects of the pandemic are behind them.
March 29, 2020
Logistics Firms Endeavor to Keep Goods Moving as Much of Economy Shuts Down
E-commerce fulfilment provider ShipBob said it set up coronavirus safety measures at its seven fulfilment centres in early March. That includes handing out masks and gloves to staffers and requiring all visitors, including vendors and drivers, to put on personal protective gear to enter its facilities. Faced with a flood of orders for consumer goods, the company also has reconfigured its warehouse management system to have products like hand sanitizer ship out ahead of items deemed less essential. The company also extended paid sick days for employees and raised pay by $2 an hour.
March 25, 2020
The 250 Most Successful Companies in the Midwest
ShipBob ranks #28 on Inc.’s inaugural ranking of the fastest-growing companies in the Midwest.
March 2, 2020
31 Standout Brands Whose Resilience in the Face of Challenges Inspired Innovation
Best Fulfilment Technology: ShipBob. If a growth rate of 3,326% over the past three years sounds impressive, then be impressed by ShipBob. In 2019, the Chicago-based fulfilment provider supported more than 3,000 brands, which shipped millions of parcels to more than 100 countries around the globe, while doubling its fulfilment-centre square footage. The firm’s proprietary warehouse management system helps it bring order to the increasingly complicated world of ecommerce, too.
February 12, 2020
Four Strategies Digitally Native Brands Can Use To Outsmart Amazon
When it comes to competing with Amazon for shipping, finding the right partner is critical—and it’s important to remember that your partnership options extend far beyond UPS or USPS. ShipBob lets retailers compete against the wildly popular two-day Prime shipping.
January 2, 2020
Is This The Beginning Of Amazon’s Meltdown?
Nike is only the tip of the iceberg. There’s a growing pack of retailers breaking ties with Amazon and launching their own online stores. Thanks to a new breed of tech companies, now you can easily farm out every step of the online store process—from shipping to returns and even one-day delivery. Here’s a quick rundown: store your inventory and fulfil orders with ShipBob.
December 19, 2019
Multichannel Merchant’s Top 3PLs 2020
Multichannel Merchant’s Top Third Party Logistics Services (Top 3PLs) online searchable database/directory is compiled by Multichannel Merchant’s editors and is for merchants looking for expert third-party ecommerce fulfilment and logistics services providers.