Online shopping deliveries can be a real headache for shoppers, but also for courier companies and online stores. The co-founders of Kanguro, a group of experienced entrepreneurs who had a bad experience with an online store that were forced to close due to efficiency problems and logistics costs in deliveries, know this well. Kanguro, a network of smart mailboxes and convenience points for package pickup, was created in July 2021 to offer a solution to this problem suffered by Xavi Valverde and Iván Lorca, among other co-founders of the startup.
“We have woven a network of more than 150 collection points in the Barcelona metropolitan area, with the aim of reaching 1,200 points in 2024 and expanding to the main cities in Spain, with Madrid as the first destination next month”, Valverde says. “It is an agnostic network, which can be used by any operator, not like now, when each courier company has its own collection points”, adds Lorca. The entrepreneurs have already reached agreements with firms such as MRW and GLS and are finalizing alliances with the other main operators.
With headquarters in Sant Cugat del Vallès and a team of twelve people, Kanguro was founded with an initial investment of 150,000 euros, provided by the founding partners. In December 2021, they closed an investment round of 1.5 million euros, which they complemented with an Enisa loan of 200,000 euros. With the aim of introducing technological improvements to the service and expanding nationally, the co-founders have just launched a second round of investment.
For this year, the entrepreneurs expect to reach a turnover of close to two million euros.
