raising $500,000 in seed funding<\/a> just months after launching in February 2015, Shippit has now teamed up with one of the sector\u2019s biggest corporations to open the door to amplified customer reach and scalability.<\/p>\nHango-Zada says the partnership with Australia Post is a marriage between a national corporation with delivery and carrier networks and a startup powered by innovative technology to improve both their services.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll see a much better standard of delivery services,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
The partnership will see retailers and customers get regular updates on the whereabouts of their parcels to reduce the anxiety and frustration of delays and missed deliveries.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you take it right back to when we started, it was just to improve the delivery for our customers,\u201d Hango-Zada says.<\/p>\n
Building Shippit with this goal and the fact that more than 60% of customers will not buy again from a retailer where they\u2019ve had delivery problems, Hango-Zada says the startup has been able to develop a simple solution for a major problem with online shopping.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all about focusing on an industry problem that needs to be solved and solving it really well,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe focused on retail right from the get-go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every month, tens of thousands of deliveries across the country are now facilitated by Shippit and Hango-Zada says this has the company on track to hit $1.5 million in revenue by midway through next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d like to focus on continuing our growth of 50% month on month,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
In upcoming months, Hango-Zada and his team will be working to release new tech delivery solutions including features to simplify how people send packages.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got quite a deep innovation pipeline,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
As it continues to escalate customer acquisition and partnerships with major players in the logistics game, Shippit has its eyes set on global expansion later on.<\/p>\n
\u201cLogistics is the key enabler for ecommerce, it\u2019s the last piece of the puzzle that needs to be innovated for that market to continue to grow,\u201d Hango-Zada says.<\/p>\n
Hango-Zada says one of the biggest lessons he has learned as an early-stage founder is to be comfortable with the unknown.<\/p>\n
When he started Shippit, he says he wanted it to be a three-hour delivery platform.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe realised there was a lot more demand for us to fix standard delivery services,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re starting with an idea that could evolve \u2013 a solution can take many different paths so be clear on that problem to help you deliver the right solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
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