Company Dossier • Logistics Infrastructure
EasyPost
The first RESTful shipping API. The quiet layer that turned a 300-page carrier manual into a single line of code - and now moves billions of packages without anyone noticing its name.
The first RESTful shipping API. The quiet layer that turned a 300-page carrier manual into a single line of code - and now moves billions of packages without anyone noticing its name.
You bought something online this week. EasyPost probably touched it.
Not the box. Not the label tape. The decision underneath - which carrier, which rate, which transit time, which tracking page. EasyPost is the software that made that decision, and you never saw it happen. That is the whole point.
Today EasyPost sits between roughly a hundred shipping carriers and the brands that need them: a single API that can rate-shop, buy a label, verify an address, track a parcel and insure it against loss. From a converted founding idea in 2012, it has grown into core logistics infrastructure used by retailers most people would recognize, processing packages by the billion across more than 200 countries and territories. It is not a household name. It is the thing household names ship on.
Shipping is a tax on every online order. EasyPost spent a decade lowering the bill.- The thesis, in one sentence
In 2012, e-commerce was exploding and shipping was a mess held together by PDFs. Every carrier - USPS, UPS, FedEx, the regional players - spoke its own dialect through its own integration, each documented across hundreds of pages of legacy specs. A developer who wanted to offer customers a simple choice of rates had to learn all of them, separately, and keep relearning them as they changed.
The result was predictable. Small and mid-sized retailers couldn't compete with Amazon's shipping experience, not because they lacked ambition, but because they lacked a logistics department. The plumbing was the moat. And nobody enjoys plumbing.
Carrier docs ran hundreds of pages. So they wrapped all of it in clean JSON and called it a day.- The founding shortcut
Jarrett Streebin had tried to build a shipping app and hit the same wall everyone hit. His bet was not subtle: if every carrier could be reached through one clean, modern REST API, then any online retailer - not just the giants - could ship like Amazon. He built the industry's first RESTful API for shipping and took it through Y Combinator's Winter 2013 batch.
The early money agreed. A $850,000 seed round brought in SV Angel, CrunchFund and Google Ventures. It was a developer-tools bet on an unsexy market, which is usually where the durable companies hide. The wager: that the boring middle of logistics was worth owning, because everybody needs it and nobody wants to build it twice.
The pitch was unglamorous and nearly unbeatable: make shipping disappear into a few lines of code.- On the strategy
Four numbers, one story: a small idea in 2012 metastasized into the connective tissue of online retail. Total raised is approximate per public reporting.
EasyPost's catalog reads like a checklist of everything that goes wrong between "buy now" and "delivered." Each piece does one unglamorous job well, and together they replace the in-house logistics team most companies can't afford.
Rate-shop across 100+ carriers, then buy and print the label - all through one modern REST endpoint.
Validates and standardizes addresses before the label prints, so packages stop chasing typos.
One real-time feed of delivery status across carriers, plus notifications customers actually open.
On-demand parcel insurance and claims handling, programmatic enough to skip the paperwork.
Estimates shipment-level transit time from historical analysis of billions of real shipments - not carrier promises.
AI-driven shipping insights, simulated carrier scenarios and automated rate selection before a box moves.
Jarrett Streebin launches EasyPost to wrap fragmented carrier systems in clean JSON.
SV Angel, CrunchFund and Google Ventures back the developer-tools bet on logistics.
Initialized Capital leads as the carrier network and customer base expand.
Transit-time prediction built from billions of real shipments turns delivery promises into data.
The unglamorous middle of logistics gets a unicorn-scale price tag.
EasyPost layers AI-driven shipping decisions and scenario simulation onto the platform.
You can claim to be infrastructure, or you can show whose checkout pages run on you. EasyPost's referenced logos skew toward the kind of companies that test vendors hard before trusting them with deliveries.
A roll call of brands you'd recognize, all routing packages through a name most of their customers never will. Logos per EasyPost's public site.
On-time deliveries are the key to customer satisfaction and repeat business. Whether it's next day, 2 day, or ground, it's all about meeting customer expectations.- Jarrett Streebin, Founder & CEO
EasyPost states its mission plainly: enable efficient, cost-effective, modern shipping experiences by removing the technical complexity of logistics. The vision stretches that into an all-in-one platform covering pre-shipping, shipping and post-shipping across every carrier and country.
Internally, the company describes a collaborative, win-together culture that leans engineering-first and remote-friendly. That tracks with the product: tools built by people who would rather delete a problem than manage it. The company itself, after a Bay Area start, now anchors in Lehi - Utah's Silicon Slopes.
EasyPost is the abstraction layer logistics never had. 100+ carriers, one contract.- On what they actually built
Connecting carriers was the first decade's problem, and EasyPost largely solved it. The next one is harder: telling a shipper not just what shipping costs, but what will actually happen - which route arrives on time, which carrier fails this week, which scenario protects the margin. SmartRate and Luma AI are the bet that historical shipment data and machine learning turn logistics from reactive to predictive.
If they're right, the value moves from the label to the decision behind it. That is a more defensible place to stand, and a harder one to copy.
So: you'll buy something online this week.
The rate will be shopped, the label printed, the address checked, the package tracked, the delivery predicted - and you won't think about any of it. EasyPost has spent more than a decade making sure of that. The most ambitious thing a logistics company can do, it turns out, is become invisible. EasyPost got there one boring API call at a time.