今日，北美新一代尾程物流平台UniUni宣布完成由DCM领投的5000万美元C轮融资，并在本轮融资中实现超募。UniUni在过去4个月内已募集逾7000万美元资金，通过针对电子商务优化的物流平台，以及司机招募、调度和路线制定的可变成本模型，UniUni将继续提升B2C尾程配送模式。
元璟资本于2023年多次投资UniUni，在此，我们热烈祝贺公司的进展，也期待UniUni在北美市场持续开拓！
在2023年12月，UniUni刚刚完成了2000万美元B2轮融资。UniUni CEO Peter Lu表示，“随着美国各地的配送覆盖范围的扩大，这些资金将用于进一步发展专有技术，为物流平台提供动力，并拓展我们的分拣中心网络。”
UniUni自2019年成立以来成长迅速，仅在加拿大境内就已经完成了年均数千万件的包裹配送，目前公司在北美拥有超过50个高容量分拣中心，分布于洛杉矶、纽约、达拉斯、迈阿密和芝加哥。UniUni也因惊人的增长率，在“《环球邮报》2023年加拿大增长最快公司榜单中”排名第四位。
以下为本轮融资详细情况
Richmond, B.C., Canada—UniUni, one of the fastest growing tech companies in Canada, is pleased to announce that it has raised US$50 million in anoversubscribed Series C financing round led by global venture capital firm DCM. This is UniUni’s largest funding round to date and comes on the heels of it closing a US$20 million Series B2 round of financing in December 2023.
A North American powerhouse in e-commerce last-mile logistics, UniUni has raised more than US$70 million in the last 4 months as it continues to disrupt the B2C last-mile delivery model with its logistics platform optimized for e-commerce and a variable-cost model for driver recruitment, dispatch and routing. UniUni ranked fourth in The Globe and Mail’s 2023 list of Canada’s Top Growing Companies, with a three-year growth rate of 12,854 per cent.
“These funds will be used to further develop our proprietary tech stack that powers our logistics platform and to grow our network of sorting centers as we continue to expand delivery coverage across the United States,” said UniUni CEO Peter Lu.
Founded in 2019, UniUni delivers tens of millions of parcels from coast to coast in Canada alone,and now boasts more than 50 high-capacity sorting centers in North America, including in Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Miami and Chicago.
According to Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index Report, 21.2 billion parcels were shipped in the U.S. in 2022. This equates to 674 parcels generated per second, or 58 million per day. Parcel revenue reached US$198 billion.
“The North American logistics market is ripe for innovation,” Peter Lu said. “The traditional logistics firms were born before the digital age, and their dated infrastructure cannot keep up with the accelerating demands of the e-commerce era. On a global scale, North American e-commerce is still at a very early stage, and we expect online retail to continue to grow and become the primary method of shopping for most Americans in the next five to 10 years.”
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, total e-commerce sales for 2023 were estimated at US$1.1 trillion—an increase of 7.6 percent from 2022—whereas the total retail sales in 2023 only increased 2.1 percent from 2022. E-commerce sales in 2023 accounted for 15.4 percent of total sales, (14.7 percent in 2022).
“UniUni's rapid growth and strategic expansion uniquely position it to address the pressing demands of a new generation of e-commerce platforms, online retailers, and brands effectively," Lu said.
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