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Laura Behrens Wu and the business hiding in a shipping label
An online store sent Laura Behrens Wu to the post office. The problem she found there became Shippo - and taught her how to build a company without pretending to be somebody else.
Easyship and the expensive business of selling out
A sold-out campaign can leave a young brand with thousands of promises and one ugly shipping bill. Easyship turns the delivery decision into something a merchant can compare, calculate and automate.
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.
Adam Fields
He left an art marketplace because nobody could figure out how to ship a painting. A decade later his software quietly runs the last mile for fine art, watches, and collectibles across 45 countries.
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.
Arta
Arta is a New York-based commerce technology company that helps the art, luxury, and collectibles market ship, insure, and track high-value and oversized items. Through an API, hosted checkout tools, and a Shopify app, Arta turns a traditionally manual, quote-by-quote logistics process into instant, automated fulfillment - covering everything from parcel to white-glove service across 65+ countries. Its customers include Sotheby's, Bonhams, Phillips, David Zwirner, Artsy, and 1stDibs.
EasyPost
EasyPost is a Utah-based logistics technology company that built the first RESTful shipping API, giving developers a single integration point to rate-shop, buy and print labels, verify addresses, track packages and insure shipments across 100+ carriers worldwide. Founded in 2012 by Jarrett Streebin, it removes the technical complexity of shipping so e-commerce brands, marketplaces and fulfillment providers can ship like Amazon without rebuilding carrier plumbing from scratch.
Jarrett Streebin
Jarrett Streebin is the founder and CEO of EasyPost, the shipping API company he started in 2012 after getting tired of wrestling with the SOAP and XML systems that FedEx, UPS, and USPS forced on developers. Pitched as 'a Stripe for shipping,' EasyPost gave online retailers a clean RESTful API for labels, tracking, address verification, and insurance across more than 100 carriers. The company went through Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch on its second try, grew to hundreds of employees in Lehi, Utah, and reached a reported $1.5 billion valuation. Streebin, a UC Berkeley grad originally from Oklahoma, is a relentless reader who credits books, early mornings, and a 'it takes a village' approach for the company's climb.
Auctane
Auctane is the Austin-based software company behind a family of shipping and mailing brands - ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShippingEasy, ShipEngine, ShipWorks, Endicia, Metapack, GlobalPost and Packlink - that help merchants of every size print labels, compare carrier rates, automate order fulfillment and track parcels worldwide. Formerly known as Stamps.com, it rebranded to Auctane in 2021 under Thoma Bravo ownership, and in June 2026 merged with freight broker WWEX Group to form ShipStation Global, a combined logistics platform serving more than 3 million customers and moving over 3 billion shipments a year.
Laura Behrens Wu
Laura Behrens Wu is the founder and CEO of Shippo, a San Francisco-based shipping platform that she built after getting frustrated trying to ship handbags from her own e-commerce store. What started as a personal pain point in 2013 became a unicorn company valued at over $1 billion, serving 100,000+ merchants with a multi-carrier shipping API. Born in Germany and raised across four continents - China, Ecuador, Egypt, and Germany - Laura dropped out of her master's program at University of St. Gallen to move to San Francisco, interned at a Y Combinator startup, and co-founded Shippo at 28. She tracked 125 investor conversations, absorbed 115+ rejections, and raised $154.3M in total funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, and D1 Capital Partners, including a $50M Series E in 2021.
Shippo
Shippo is a San Francisco-based shipping platform that gives e-commerce merchants and marketplaces a single API and dashboard to compare rates across 40+ carriers, print labels, track packages, manage returns, and handle international customs - turning what used to be a multi-week carrier integration into a few lines of code.