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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.
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.
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.
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.