Local retailers have to manage delivery providers themselves or build in-house. Both are expensive and complex. Delivery providers include DPD, Royal Mail, Hived and Veho.
UK start-up evermile aims to simplify and automate deliveries, bringing enterprise-level logistics to small businesses.
It has now raised $6 million in a seed funding round led by 10D with participation from Mensch Capital Partners and several angel investors, including Fred Destin (former Deliveroo board member), Ziv Paz (Melio co-founder) and others. .
The company says it has an optimization engine that analyzes the options and chooses the provider with the most competitive price and performance scores. He claims this can reduce delivery costs by 30-50% and make deliveries affordable for small businesses, by matching merchants with the right partner for each delivery task.
Built by former Via and Optibus executives (Omer Goldschmidt, Omry Hochberg and Ynon Cohen), Evermile now says it has over 300 local merchants across the UK – pharmacies, florists, wine shops, local bakeries – using the platform. .
Omer Goldschmidt, CEO and co-founder, said that the platform also takes full ownership of the delivery promise.
They will have their work cut out for them. Competitors include other startups such as aggregators like Sendcloud, Shippo, and Shipstation.