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  • With $40M in new investment, this young logistics company aims to battle Amazon (100 jobs)

    09/13/2018 1:52:08 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 8 replies
    The Virginian-Pilot ^ | September 7, 2018 | Ally Marotti, The Chicago Tribune
    With $40 million in new investments announced Thursday, Chicago-based e-commerce logistics company ShipBob is eyeing an expansion — starting with a new fulfillment warehouse and a push to hire 100 people in the next year. The startup aims to help small to midsize e-commerce companies ship their products at speeds similar to Amazon. Shipping logistics tends to be the hardest part of launching an e-commerce brand, said Dhruv Saxena, ShipBob’s co-founder and CEO. “The expectation from a customer standpoint is that they will get all of their e-commerce orders delivered to them like Amazon Prime: same-day, next-day,” he said. “These...