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Postmates Raises $16 Million Series B Round, Led by Spark Capital

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 18, 2014

Postmates, the leading on-demand delivery service, announced today that it has raised an additional $ 16 million in capital for its Series B financing round to support its dramatic growth and expand geographically. The latest round was led by Spark Capital with follow-on from existing investors. Nabeel Hyatt, Venture Partner at Spark Capital, will join founders Bastian Lehmann and Sean Plaice on the company’s Board of Directors along with Scott Banister.

“We’re currently averaging thousands of deliveries per week. Customers who order more than 10 times per month contribute to more than 30% of order volume; customers who order more than 5 times per month contribute to more than 50% of order volume,” said Bastian Lehmann, CEO and co-founder of Postmates. “More importantly, is how quickly our supply is growing. We have nearly 2,000 active Postmates couriers on the platform in our four markets.”

Since closing its Series A funding in December of 2012, Postmates has developed its own proprietary logistics software that successfully dispatches and guides couriers through major metropolitan areas to deliver local goods including prepared food, groceries and retail goods. The company has forged partnerships and promotional campaigns with merchants in San Francisco, D.C., Seattle and New York, including Whole Foods, Momofuku Milk Bar, Hapa Ramen and The Meatball Shop, among others.

“We are experiencing remarkable growth and strong national demand for our mobile platform,” said Lehmann. “This new round of financing and group of investors – with their proven success in identifying potentially successful consumer products such as Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr – will guide us through this critical growth stage. With Spark’s support, we’ll continue to push the boundaries of e-commerce and logistics within local markets.”

This investment will enable Postmates to strengthen its position as the industry leader in same-day delivery. The company plans to improve its understanding of local inventory and aggressively invest in their operations, design and engineering teams to meet increasing domestic and international demand for the product.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Postmates. They have a magical product and have proven this past year they know how to handle incredible growth while keeping quality high,” said Nabeel Hyatt, Venture Partner at Spark Capital. “Bastian and his team have created a service that not only puts your city in the palm of your hand, but it also does that while helping support the local businesses that make a city what it is.”

Postmates previously closed a $ 5 million Series A round from FoundersFund and received a $ 1.75 million seed round with SoftTechVC, Matrix Partners, Scott Banister, Naval Ravikant, Russel Simmons, Thomas Korte, Shervin Pishevar, Dave Morin, and David Sacks participating amongst others. The Series B brings Postmates’ total funding to just over $ 22 million.

About Postmates:

Postmates is transforming the way local goods move around a city by enabling anyone to get any product delivered in under one hour. Postmates’ revolutionary urban logistics & on-demand delivery platform connects customers with local couriers, who purchase and deliver goods from any restaurant or store in a city. Postmates’ mission is to become the on-demand delivery infrastructure for every major city in the world. Postmates was co-founded by Sam Street, Sean Plaice and Bastian Lehmann in 2011, and is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in London, Seattle and New York.

Postmates is free to download from the app store or by visiting: http://www.postmates.com

About Spark Capital

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs seeking to build disruptive, world-changing companies. Founded in 2005, the firm manages approximately $ 1,500,000,000 across four funds. Headquartered in Boston, Spark maintains an office in New York and invests across the globe. Spark Capital focuses on Internet and mobile investments across the following key categories: advertising & monetization, commerce & services, content & media, financial services, hardware & infrastructure, mobile and social.

For more information, visit http://www.sparkcapital.com







Postmates Launches 1-Hour Delivery in New York City

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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 30, 2013

Postmates, the original same day delivery startup based in San Francisco, today announced availability of its one hour service in New York. Operating at the intersection of urban logistics and e-commerce, Postmates provides delivery from any store or restaurant in Manhattan.

Postmates’ mobile app connects its fleet of couriers with customers in New York, providing access to local inventory from the Apple Store, Bloomingdales, Shake Shack, Levain Bakery, Duane-Reade and virtually anywhere else. Postmates’ couriers are equipped with a proprietary courier app and company credit card to purchase items on behalf of their customers. From real-time tracking to digital receipts, the entire delivery process is transparent and cashless.

For local merchants, Postmates offers the opportunity to compete with mass retailers. The startup provides a platform for stores and restaurants to deliver goods to customers anywhere in the city at no cost to their business. With Postmates, the more than 65% of merchants in NYC that don’t offer deliver, now have a full-service option.

“I am excited to introduce Postmates to a city that defines convenience and accessibility,” explained Bastian Lehmann, CEO and co-founder of Postmates. “New York is the ideal market for an on-demand service. Now all of Manhattan is accessible at the touch of a button.”

The existing fleet of nearly 50 Postmates’ couriers in New York consists of bikes, cars, scooters and SUVs. At launch, Postmates will:

     + Deliver from anywhere in Manhattan to the greater Flatiron District (between 42nd and 14th, 8th and Lexington), and will quickly expand throughout the city over the next two months

     + Be available between 8:00am – 3:00am, 7 days a week

     + Start at $ 5 for delivery, but is free during launch week, May 30 – June 5

Postmates is currently live in San Francisco and Seattle and is growing its delivery volume by 20% month on month. In San Francisco, Postmates has increased the number of merchants that deliver from 800 to nearly 3,000 and has successfully processed over $ 1M in deliveries from merchants in San Francisco and Seattle over the last 3 months. The startup plans to launch a new market every two months.

Postmates has raised just over $ 7 million in funding to date from a handful of well-known Silicon Valley angel investors and venture capitalists.: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/postmates.

About Postmates:

Postmates is a revolutionary same day urban logistics and delivery platform that enables individuals to have any product in the city delivered in under an hour. Postmates enables same day delivery by arming couriers with credit cards to purchase goods on behalf of the customer at any retail store or merchant in the city. Postmates was co-founded by Sam Street, Sean Plaice and Bastian Lehmann in 2011, and is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in London, Seattle and NYC.

Postmates is free to download from the app store or by visiting: http://www.postmates.com