Deliverr Scoops Up $250 Million Round

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Deliverr&comma; an e-commerce fulfillment and technology company that provides fast and affordable fulfillment services to e-commerce merchants on marketplace platforms like Shopify&comma; Walmart&comma; Amazon&comma; eBay&comma; Target&comma; and others&comma; has raised &dollar;250 million in a Series E fundraising round led by new investor Tiger Global&period; Existing investors&comma; 8VC&comma; Activant&comma; GLP&comma; Brookfield Technology Partners&comma; and Coatue also participated in the round&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This new capital will be used to accelerate commercial operations and expand Deliverr’s next-day fulfillment service to e-commerce merchants of all sizes across the country&period; The funding also raises Deliverr’s valuation to &dollar;2 billion&comma; more than double the last funding round from earlier this year&period; This new raise positions the startup as the best capitalized and highest valued company in the e-commerce fulfillment and logistics space&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The most effective way to address supply chain congestion is to move inventory closer to the end customer&period; Deliverr is the only company working to solve this problem through stronger inventory placement&comma; while leveraging cutting-edge machine learning and optimization technology to build a smarter fulfillment network&comma;” said Harish Abbott&comma; Deliverr co-founder and CEO&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With this new capital&comma; Deliverr will focus on scaling next-day fulfillment for e-commerce merchants and grow our world-class team of engineers&comma; data scientists and operations experts&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Deliverr&&num;8217&semi;s fast and affordable ecommerce fulfillment helps thousands of merchants sell more with higher conversions and lower advertising spend&period; Ultimately&comma; this enables merchants to grow faster&period; Merchants on Deliverr grew 90&percnt; year-over-year compared to e-commerce growth rates at a fraction of that rate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Deliverr uses predictive analytics to anticipate demand for products based on demographics&comma; geography and other variables&period; Deliverr then uses that analysis to preposition items close to demand&period; The company&&num;8217&semi;s forward deploy network includes more than 80 warehouses&comma; cross-docks and sort centers&period; By stocking items near places of demand&comma; Deliverr reduces the number of miles a product travels and enables Next-Day ecommerce fulfillment at affordable costs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In today&&num;8217&semi;s consumer marketplaces&comma; demand for next-day and two-day delivery for online purchases intensifies —even as supply chain problems clog delivery operations for merchants around the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Deliverr is well-positioned to lead the ecommerce fulfillment space as several market forces converge&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said John Curtius&comma; Partner at Tiger Global&period; &&num;8220&semi;While the global supply chain remains challenged because of the crippling impact of the coronavirus pandemic&comma; online sales volumes and consumer demand for next-day delivery are projected to set new records&period; No other company&comma; at the cutting-edge of fulfillment infrastructure and technology&comma; will be able to solve for logistics chain disruptions&comma; offer merchants next-day delivery&comma; and save merchant money — all at the same time&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In just over three years of operations&comma; the Deliverr network is on track to power more than &dollar;2&period;5 billion GMV run-rate by the end of 2021&period; Today&comma; half of the U&period;S&period; population lives within 100 miles of a Deliverr network&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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