{"id":38364,"date":"2023-10-20T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/sherpa-gets-ready-to-scale-the-heights-of-australias-growing-market-for-on-demand-deliveries-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:56:00","slug":"sherpa-gets-ready-to-scale-the-heights-of-australias-growing-market-for-on-demand-deliveries-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/sherpa-gets-ready-to-scale-the-heights-of-australias-growing-market-for-on-demand-deliveries-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherpa gets ready to scale the heights of Australia\u2019s growing market for on-demand deliveries – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Australian awareness of on-demand services grows, Sydney-based startup Sherpa is vying to help traditional businesses catch up.<\/p>\n

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Sherpa<\/a>, which soft-launched late last year, and raised $500,000 in seed funding in March, delivers products in under two hours to business customers as well as individuals.<\/p>\n

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It has a network of over 1000 registered \u2018sherpas\u2019 \u2013 crowd-sourced couriers, and guarantees two hour delivery between the hours of 7am and 9pm, seven days a week. It currently operates within a 20 kilometre radius of the central business districts of Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne and is soon to launch in Auckland. Anything that fits in a car can be delivered and pricing is based on distance \u2013 with the average cost being between $8 and $15.<\/p>\n

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Co-founder Ben Nowlan says there\u2019s a real opportunity in Australia for a startup to take control of on-demand deliveries.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe thing that Australia is really waking up to right now, is what on-demand really means,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s \u2018I want it now\u2019, in two hours or less, and it\u2019s different to same-day delivery. People want their goods really quickly and that\u2019s something that only a business model like Sherpa can achieve. Traditional business models can\u2019t achieve the same elasticity and responsiveness that a crowd-sourced model has.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the United States where the on-demand market is more mature, the market is saturated with such startups delivering everything from food, to laundry and office supplies. Among them Alfred<\/a>, DoorDash<\/a>, Caviar<\/a>, SpoonRocket<\/a>, Munchery<\/a> and Postmates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAustralia is just waking up to what this is,\u201d Nowlan says.<\/p>\n

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Sherpa has grown significantly since February, when it was aiming to hit around 200 deliveries a month. It is now conducting over 2000 deliveries per month, Nowlan says, with customers receiving everything from cakes, to flowers and alcohol. A big part of that growth has been thanks to large national partnerships, although Nowlan won\u2019t say with whom.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe thing that has been really fascinating for us, we\u2019re getting really excited about, is people use Sherpa for the widest range of things,\u201d Nowlan says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut we\u2019ve heavily targeted the enterprise space, because that\u2019s where we have an easier entrance point.\u201d<\/p>\n

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