Amazon Ex-Employees Driven Startup Shipium Landed $2M

The US-based goods shipping startup, Shipium has raised $2 million. The seed round led by Seattle based PSL Venture, a venture capital startup studio. Shipium provides services like supply chain optimization and data processing. However, the co-founder of Shipium has not shared future plans with this investment.

Jason Murray and Mac Brown, the founders of Shipium, have previously worked at Amazon. Jason Murray spent 20 years at Amazon as Vice President and supervised the supply chain team. On the other hand, Mac Brown earlier worked at Amazon, however, he joined Zulily, an online retail firm, later.

At Zulily, Brown served as a Vice President of the supply chain. Jason Murray and Mac Brown were experienced and skilled in shipping services; the expertise tends this duo to form a startup named Shipium in 2019.

Before starting Shipium, the duo realized the prestige of Amazon makes customers go blindfold about the fast shipping service. But when it comes to other e-commerce brands, customers step back. So, they targeted logistic services to eCommerce brands other than Amazon, aiming to accomplish a two-days shipping service for online retailers. Shipium serves fulfillments to direct-to-consumer(DTC) companies as well as large scale electronics company. 

Washington based PSL Venture is an early-stage venture capital and sub-organization of Pioneer Square Labs. It aims to turn the unique and fruitful ideas into a fully-funded firm to expand the business with extensive customer networks.

On this occasion, Julie Sandler, managing director at PSL Ventures and Pioneer Square Labs said, with the presence of a fierce competitor like Amazon, most retailers face overwhelming supply chain challenges. Jason Murray and Mac Brown are perfect for the logistics market with an ambitious and courageous vision for retailers. Shipium is boosting the logistics sector for eCommerce companies all over the world.

Jason Murray states, there are tons of service providers offering a variety of services, but he wishes to offer logistics solutions that will provide retailers peace of mind and assurance of products shipping in good condition without overburdening and damaging.