Axlehire
Last-mile-delivery startup AxleHire specializes in perishables like meal kits and luxury pet food.
It raised $20 million in a Series B round, bringing its total funding to $37 million.
AxleHire benefited tremendously when UPS and FedEx turned away packages last year, its CEO said.
As companies like UPS and FedEx dealt with the pandemic-induced boom in e-commerce, delivery delays became the norm — and a disaster for time-sensitive food shipments.
Any company that could help navigate the myriad supply-chain disruptions stood to win big — and the San Francisco delivery startup AxleHire was one of the winners.
"FedEx and UPS were declining volumes," AxleHire CEO Adam Bryant told Insider. "We were the beneficiary."