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nShift and the expensive business of getting a parcel there
A delivery promise is easy to print and expensive to break. nShift connects the checkout, the warehouse and the return journey - and now wants to check the bill, too.
Metapack sells retailers the freedom to change their deliveries
A parcel label is the easy part. Metapack’s business is helping retailers change carriers, keep checkout promises and make the journey home less of a guessing game.
AfterShip
AfterShip is a post-purchase software company that helps online retailers manage everything that happens after the buy button. Its platform tracks shipments across more than 1,100 carriers, powers branded tracking pages and delivery notifications, automates returns and exchanges, predicts estimated delivery dates, and syncs catalogs to marketplaces like TikTok Shop. Founded in Hong Kong in 2011 and now headquartered in Singapore, AfterShip serves tens of thousands of merchants, including brands such as Microsoft, Dell, HP, and marketplaces like eBay and Etsy, and has processed billions of tracked shipments.
Shipday
Shipday is a cloud-based, AI-powered delivery management platform that lets small and medium-sized businesses - restaurants, grocers, pizzerias, florists, couriers and e-commerce sellers - run their own local deliveries without paying gig-economy commissions. It combines dispatch automation, route optimization, a driver mobile app, real-time branded tracking, proof of delivery and AI agents for customer communication, and connects to third-party fleets like DoorDash and Uber for overflow. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Shipday serves more than 6,000 businesses across 100+ countries and has powered over 30 million deliveries.