Shipbird

Shipbird is a social delivery platform which provides local same-day & scheduled shipping solutions powered by crowdsourced delivery agents.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Transportation
  • Location San Francisco, CA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded August 2013
  • Employees 1
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website shipbird.com

Company Summary

Shipbird is a social delivery platform which provides local same-day & scheduled shipping solutions powered by crowdsourced delivery agents. It's a scalable, technology enabled platform solution for small to medium sized businesses, parcel delivery, and solutions providers.
- Same Day Delivery costs less than next day delivery
- Local community based deliverers make 85% of the delivery charge
- Delivering all over the San Francisco bay area.

Team

  • 12+ years in logistics with family owned steel distribution company, Metals Supply Company. Metals Supply grew from 15 employees in 1993 up to 115 and just shy of $200M in gross revenue. Sold to a private equity firm in 2006.

    Has started over 6 companies in the last ten years, in three verticals.

  • Kris comes with 20+ years of Mobile + Full stack + Team lead experience with deep interests in highly scalable solutions for retail & social space. He has worked for several startups, co-founding 2 of his own in consumer messaging and social private platform.
    Specialities :
    - Full stack : Python, NodeJS, AngularJS, Express.
    - Cloud : Azure, Google App Engine, AWS.
    - Mobile : iOS, Android, PhoneGap.
    - Management : Tech lead, Offshore team mgmt.

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