1 2011 2011 05 01 founder sam street sean plaice and bastian lehmann headquarters san francisco california united states area served select u.s. cities services goods delivery website postmates.com postmates is a logistics company that operates a network of couriers who deliver goods locally . postmates is closely compared to uber because of its use of mobile phones to receive orders and dispatch delivery drivers . 1 as of december 2014 postmates operates in 18 u.s. cities . 1 as of october 2015 their website lists more than 100 metropolitan areas . the service is part of a category of businesses that rely on mobile phone applications and their global positioning system capabilities to quickly match inventories and consumer demand . 2 postmates is an example of an on demand company . postmates co founder bastian lehmann calls the company anti amazon saying amazon comes along and builds a warehouse outside a city . we like to say the city s our warehouse . we try to understand the inventory available hacking the city and having a fleet of delivery people that distribute these inventories . 2 contents 1 history 1.1 funding 2 references 3 external links history edit postmates was founded in 2011 by sam street sean plaice and bastian lehmann and is headquartered in san francisco california . 3 in december 2014 postmates opened its application programming interface to merchants to allow small businesses to compete for speedy delivery of consumer goods with larger companies such as amazon . 1 4 5 6 the company announced in december 2014 that it had completed its millionth delivery and that it had over 6 000 drivers in its network . 7 in june 2015 postmates announced that they had surpassed 2.5 million deliveries across 28 markets and expanded their fleet to 13 000 couriers . 8 in september 2015 postmates unveiled a revamped version of its app dubbed postmates 3.0 which features category discovery delivery tracking gifting and estimated delivery times . 9 funding edit postmates started getting outside funding before launch with 60k in seed funding from angelpad . they later went on to receive 1.95 million in angel funding . in march 2013 the company raised 11 million in series a funding led by founders fund . in february 2014 the company raised 16 million in series b funding led by spark capital . in february 2015 the company raised 35 million in series c funding led by harmony partners and spark capital . in june 2015 the company raised 80 million in series d funding from tiger global management slow ventures and spark capital 10 references edit a b c amazon not as unstoppable as it might appear . nytimes.com . retrieved 2015 02 11 . a b bbc news location services how gps delivery is changing shopping . bbc.com . retrieved 2015 02 11 . about postmates . postmates.com . retrieved 2015 02 11 . will postmates dominate same day delivery with its open api racked sf . sf.racked.com . retrieved 2015 02 11 . postmates powering on demand logistics . blog.postmates.com . retrieved 2015 02 11 . postmates is launching an api to let third party sellers offer local delivery techcrunch . techcrunch.com . retrieved 2015 02 11 . 1 million deliveries deep postmates formally launches an on demand api . techcrunch.com . retrieved 2015 02 11 . we ve raised 80m led by tiger global management . blog.postmates.com . retrieved 2015 07 06 . dickey megan rose 2015 09 21 . postmates unveils revamped platform announces 4 million deliveries . techcrunch.com . retrieved 2015 11 06 . http blogs.wsj.com digits 2015 06 25 postmates raises 80 million in push toward 1 deliveries external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title postmates & oldid 743699648 categories online companiescompanies based in san franciscoprivately held companies in the united stateslogistics companies of the united statestransport companies established in 20112011 establishments in the united stateshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view