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 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.
Joe Ruiz is the CEO and Founder of DPS (Digital Postal Service), an AI-driven blockchain-based communications company that has certified over 3 million documents across U.S. courts and pioneered the first blockchain-generated ePostage certified by USPS. A descendant of Declaration of Independence signer John Hart, Ruiz has spent a decade bridging traditional postal infrastructure with Web3 technology - building CaseMail, integrating NFT Digital Stamps into USPS Connect eCommerce, and expanding his certified AI email platform to Microsoft's Azure Marketplace.