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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.
The Software Making 50,000 Daily Shipping Decisions Before the Label Printer Blinks
ProShip lives in the split second between an order and a shipping label, choosing the carrier, service, promise date and paperwork. That unglamorous decision can save a retailer millions - or turn peak season into a queue.
Brad Ramsey Wants Shipping to Earn Its Place in the Brand Story
After two decades marketing search, social networks, video, learning tools, and pirate-themed postage, Brad Ramsey has arrived at Shippo with a practical brief: make a backstage business function feel like a competitive advantage.
The Shipping Company That Doesn't Own the Trucks
eShipper built its business in the space between a merchant's checkout button and the customer's front door. Its wager is simple: small and midsize sellers can borrow the buying power, software and supply-chain discipline of a much larger company.
Extensiv
Extensiv began when two warehouse operators built the software they could not buy. Twenty years and three acquisitions later, it is trying to turn the messy middle of ecommerce fulfillment into one connected operating system.
Quadient
A century-old maker of postage meters quietly turned itself into a software company. Here is how Quadient bet its future on the mail nobody thinks about - the bills, statements and packages that decide whether a customer stays.
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.
Burmester & Vogel
Burmester & Vogel is a Boston-based maritime technology company that uses AI and machine learning to automate laytime calculation and demurrage claim management for the shipping industry. Founded in Hamburg in 1983 as a traditional laytime firm, it has reinvented itself as the maker of the Demurrage AI Copilot - software that digitizes shipping documents, calculates delay time, and audits demurrage claims in seconds. It serves industrial producers, commodity traders, bulk terminals and shipowners across several hundred companies worldwide.
Evangelos Efstathiou
Evangelos (Evan) Efstathiou is the CEO of Burmester & Vogel, a Boston-based maritime software company that turns the slow, paper-heavy work of laytime and demurrage calculation into AI-driven automation. An MIT-trained entrepreneur who has spent his whole career at the crossroads of shipping, software and capital markets, he bought the 40-year-old freight-tech firm in 2019 through a Series A and is rebuilding it into what he calls 'the Bloomberg of shipping.' He also runs the maritime M&A and strategy advisory Skysail Advisors, which he founded in 2016.
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.