# James Malley

> James Malley is the co-founder and CEO of Paccurate, a New York-based software company whose API decides the cheapest, lowest-waste way to pack every shipment. He grew up around multi-carrier shipping software, trained in theater, and spent years building parcel apps before he and CTO Pat Powers turned a side project fixing carriers' dimensional-weight pricing into a venture-backed cartonization platform used by major retailers and 3PLs.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Paccurate
- **Organizations:** Paccurate, BeneShip, Beneflix
- **From:** Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts, New York University, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Paccurate and scaled it to about 27 employees and roughly $16.1M in total funding across multiple rounds, Built an API-driven cartonization platform adopted by major retailers and third-party logistics providers, Earlier in his career, helped develop an award-winning multi-carrier transportation management system (TMS)

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Partner at Beneflix, LLC
- **2010** — Partner at BeneShip, building multi-carrier shipping and parcel software
- **2014** — With Pat Powers, spots the dimensional-weight pricing problem while building parcel apps for retailers; starts building cartonization software as a passion project
- **2018** — Co-founds and becomes CEO of Paccurate
- **2021** — Pandemic supply-chain pressure drives major shippers to adopt Paccurate's maturing platform
- **2024** — Paccurate raises a Series A (~$8.1M), bringing total funding to about $16.1M

## Achievements

- Co-founded Paccurate and scaled it to about 27 employees and roughly $16.1M in total funding across multiple rounds
- Built an API-driven cartonization platform adopted by major retailers and third-party logistics providers
- Earlier in his career, helped develop an award-winning multi-carrier transportation management system (TMS)
- Positioned packing optimization as a lever for both cost reduction and lower cardboard and emissions waste

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Paccurate closed a Series A round of roughly $8.1M, lifting total funding to about $16.1M.
- **2025-06** — Featured on The New Warehouse podcast discussing cutting transportation costs with smart cartonization.

## Links

- Website: https://paccurate.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmalley/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/paccurate2
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWO3zJKPKI
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBcP3HgPRq7/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/paccurate

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Last updated: 2026-07-16