Also, integrates with the main marketplaces and e-commerce in Latin America, such as Mercado Libre, Shopify, Tiendanube, Woo-commerce, Vtex, Magento, among others; thus achieving the automation of shipments and their traceability.
It has more than 2,100 dispatch points and more than 4,500 withdrawal points; as well as the fulfillment service, where customers can use the company’s warehouses so that they take care of the storage, preparation and dispatch of the products.
As explained Federico Arbio, Zippin founder and CEO, with the injection of capital provided by Kamay Ventures, Zippin also expects to increase the hiring of personnel to continue improving its value proposition. “The investment of the fund is a great milestone for us. With the decision to increase operations in Latin America, we believed it was important to add market leaders to our board to help us navigate the path, and in Kamay we found that support.”
Zippin’s growth objectives also include landing in the Colombian and Peruvian markets between 2023 and 2024. The basis of the startup’s proposal is that SMEs in the region can access logistics services and quality tools such as top-tier companies do.
Federico Arbio developed the platform together with two other founding partners.
“Increasingly, customers make the purchase decision based on the logistical facilities provided to them. They no longer want to be told when and where they will receive the package, they want to be in control and decide for themselves. And to achieve this, you have to offer a range of logistics services that no operator or transport has completely; then vendors have to contact multiple providers, and this is very complicated for an SME to manage due to its lack of scale, resources and infrastructure”, he added.
The idea is that users – in addition to having the entire logistics process centralized in one place – can access multiple transport and management tools. The platform, on the one hand, allows companies in the region to access quality logistics services and tools and, on the other hand, enables regional transport to jump on the e-commerce trend.
The platform recently received a certification from Mercado Libre, which allowed the e-commerce giant to include it within its logistics offer as a solution for those products that Mercado Envios does not manage.
“We are very happy to announce this investment in Zippin, not only because it is the first in the logistics sector, very important for e-commerce, but also because the solution adds value to the process, while promoting a market with more transparent prices. and competitive”, explained Gabriela Ruggeri, managing partner of Kamay Ventures.
Kamay Ventures has Grupo Arcor and Coca-Coca Latin America as founding investors. It is the first corporate capital fund, open to multiple corporations, independently managed by Overboost, a renowned accelerator and specialist in the creation of companies with disruptive ideas.
The fund will invest over the next three years in about 10 startups per year with an average investment of $300,000 per project.
Source: Ambito
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