Backpack is a peer-to-peer platform that connects travelers and shoppers to give people access to products across markets in all continents.
Each backpacker, regardless of their role as a carrier or a shopper, follows a simple four-step process to either earn or save money from their backpacking experience.
Travelers share their travel information and specify what kind of items they want to carry. Then they wait to get a "backpack request" and ask their price. Finally, they confirm the deal, buy the items, deliver them and earn money. Shoppers on the other hand, search items from their favorite websites and fill out the item description. Then they give their location and find a traveler coming to their city. Finally they "request backpack" and confirm the deal. Within days they can get the product and save money.
Each backpacker, regardless of their role as a carrier or a shopper, follows a simple four-step process to either earn or save money from their backpacking experience.
Travelers share their travel information and specify what kind of items they want to carry. Then they wait to get a "backpack request" and ask their price. Finally, they confirm the deal, buy the items, deliver them and earn money. Shoppers on the other hand, search items from their favorite websites and fill out the item description. Then they give their location and find a traveler coming to their city. Finally they "request backpack" and confirm the deal. Within days they can get the product and save money.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2014
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Inflection... | inflection... |
| - | Loup Funds | loupfunds.... |
| 21.07.2020 | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
Mentions in press and media 4
| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.02.2018 | How Backpack Is Changing Both Shopping And Travel: An Interview With Mozammel Haque, Director of Engineering, Backpack | Since his appointment as Director of Engineering at Backpack two and a half years ago, Mozammel Haque has been instrumental in building a team, spearheading a rapid growth of Backpack as a two-sided platform that connects shoppers with trav... |
| 19.08.2014 | YC Demo Day Session 1: Gingko Bioworks, Bikanta, Checkr, WalkSource, ClearTax, And More | We’re at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to see the startups in the Y Combinator Summer 2014 class pitch their wares to investors and the press. There will be four sessions in total today, and we’ll be writing up a... |
| 14.08.2014 | Backpack (YC S14) Connects You With Travelers So You Can Purchase Items In Other Countries | Imagine if a certain type of medication you needed wasn’t available in your country and was expensive to ship or acquire. Many people rely on friends or relatives traveling to these countries to bring back items that cannot be purchased in ... |
| 13.08.2014 | Backpack Connects You With Travelers So You Can Purchase Items In Other Countries | Imagine if a certain type of medication you needed wasn’t available in your country and was expensive to ship or acquire. Many people rely on friends or relatives traveling to these countries to bring back items that cannot be purchased in ... |