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Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Total raised
$800K
Investors 1
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Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 11
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| Feb 12, 2014 | Congrats to the YC Companies Featured in Forbes’ “10 Best Startup Websites” | Congratulations to BuildZoom, SwapBox, WeFunder and Coin for being featured in Forbes’ “10 Best Startup Websites”. Read the full story on Forbes.com |
| Jan 3, 2014 | Here’s the Scoop on Nimbus, the Downtown Project’s Stealthy Hardware Fund | Back in September, we heard that Romotive alum Jen McCabe was leading up an arm of the Downtown Project’s $50 million VegasTechFund called Nimbus. She planned to invest in hardware companies in industries like robotics, connected devices, s... |
| Dec 6, 2013 | Swapbox Raises $800K | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Company that eliminates missed deliveries, announced today it has secured $800K in seed funding led by Tony Hsieh's Vegas Tech Fund. >> Click here for more funding data on Swapbox >> To export Swapbox fund... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Swapbox (YC W13) raises $800K with centrally located delivery lockers, available now in San Francisco | San Francisco-based startup and Y Combinator Winter 2013 class member Swapbox has raised $800,000 in seed funding, led by Tony Hsieh’s Vegas Tech Fund investment vehicle and including Fuel Capital, YC founder Trevor Blackwell, Base Ventures... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Swapbox Lands $800K To Take On Google’s BufferBox And Amazon’s Lockers | San Francisco-based startup and Y Combinator Winter 2013 class member Swapbox has raised $800,000 in seed funding, led by Tony Hsieh’s Vegas Tech Fund investment vehicle and including Fuel Capital, YC founder Trevor Blackwell, Base Ventures... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Tony Hsieh leads $800k round in Swapbox | An Amazon Locker for all your online retail purchases Are lockers for rent a big deal? Apparently, Tony Hsieh of Zappos thinks so. He and another entrepreneur, Trevor Blackwell, best known for creating humanoid robots, have led an $800,000 ... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Swapbox Raises $800K in Seed Funding | Swapbox, a San Francisco, California-based provider of automated kiosks to receive packages, raised $800k in seed funding. The round was led by Tony Hsieh’s Vegas Tech Fund with participation from Fuel Capital, Y Combinator founder Trevor B... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Y Combinator Winter 2013 Demo Day, Batch 2: Meet Lollipuff, Goldbely, And More | Y Combinator Demo Day, where 47 startups are taking the stage to pitch investors and press, continues to roll along. Here are short descriptions of the second group of presenting companies (the descriptions in the headlines come from the co... |
| Mar 15, 2013 | Y Combinator Company Swapbox Launches And Aims To Pick Up Where Bufferbox Left Off | You know the drill, you order something from your favorite site and you can’t wait to get the package. Like a blogger normal person, you go to work and hope that the package is there when you get home. That hope slowly turns into worry as y... |
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FAQ about Swapbox
How much funding has Swapbox raised?
Swapbox has raised $800K in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about Swapbox?
Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning Swapbox, among them “Congrats to the YC Companies Featured in Forbes’ “10 Best Startup Websites”” (Feb 12, 2014) and “Here’s the Scoop on Nimbus, the Downtown Project’s Stealthy Hardware Fund” (Jan 3, 2014).
Is Swapbox still active?
Swapbox is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 12, 2014.