{"id":43844,"date":"2023-10-20T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/sydney-startup-partners-with-the-biggest-corporate-player-in-its-game-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:31:35","slug":"sydney-startup-partners-with-the-biggest-corporate-player-in-its-game-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/sydney-startup-partners-with-the-biggest-corporate-player-in-its-game-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney startup partners with the biggest corporate player in its game – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Sydney startup working to eliminate the dilemma of missed parcels has teamed up with Australia Post in a “game-changing partnership” aiming to smarten up the logistics sector.<\/p>\n

Data-driven app Shippit powers smart deliveries to ensure people receive parcels instead of \u201csorry we missed you\u201d cards through features like live GPS tracking, smart notifications and delay avoidance, founder Rob Hango-Zada says.<\/p>\n

\u201cShippit simplifies the delivery process for retailers and customers,\u201d Hango-Zada tells StartupSmart<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After successfully 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>\n

Hango-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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