Logistics Firm Bigblue nabs US $15 million in funding round

Logistics startup Bigblue, has announced a $15 million Series A round, Tech Funding.

Founded in 2018, the Paris-based company’s services include giving retailers full control over packaging, branding and customer communications, as per the reports. With the new funding, it plans to hire more people for its sales; marketing and operations staff, along with tripling its engineering staff.

According to the reports, co-founder, Tim Dumain said the company has “a lot of new customers in France, but now we’re expanding in Europe.”

“We opened our services to Spain a few weeks ago and will soon open the U.K. in a couple of months for customers shipping products there,” he continued. “We plan to expand in five big countries in the European e-commerce market, including Germany and Italy.”

Dumain added that Bigblue’s main goal is to “make it easy for brands to grow online.”

“With this new round, we will support scaling service offerings for Bigblue’s growing base of online merchants, fuel hiring efforts, and continue to position the company as the leader in the D2C direct-to-consumer fulfilment space,” he added. The round was led by Runa Capital and LPV was the second lead investor.