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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.