Doorstep to help with delivery tracking.<\/a> Murarka, who is CEO, said that standard GPS works wonders outdoors, but fails inside buildings, which creates a blind spot for deliverers.<\/p>\nDoorstep integrates into existing delivery apps and then, using phone sensors, tracks when a driver has entered a building, gone up an elevator, and made it to the desired doorstep.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This data is given to the delivery platform in which the driver works, like Uber Eats or DoorDash, and then can be used to automate dispute resolution and properly validate deliveries, essentially ending the drama behind missing food and blurry proof-of-delivery photos. Murarka said the company doesn\u2019t collect driver or user information and that it maintains \u201cthe same privacy and security standards platforms already have in place.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur technology gives customer support teams the visibility they\u2019ve been missing, providing real-time, verifiable data on what actually happens inside buildings to resolve refunds automatically,\u201d Murarka said. \u201cSolving that blind spot unlocks enormous value for platforms, drivers, merchants, and customers alike.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the company announced an $8 million seed round led by Canaan Partners. Murarka described fundraising as \u201crelentless,\u201d and said he actually slept in the office of the accelerator Antler when he first moved to New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cEvery step has been about funding the earliest believer,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe people who don\u2019t just want to watch the journey but want to be part of it and stay the course.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said Doorstep raised this round in about a week and that he met their lead investor at Canaan through network connections. Others in this round include Antler, Cercano Management, Cassius, and Sean Henry, a scout at Kleiner Perkins. Murarka said the fresh capital will be used to move the technology from pilot to full production. He\u2019s also looking to hire in engineering and product.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Murarka considers the company\u2019s competitors to be other hardware-based solutions, like standard building sensors, lockers, and cameras. \u201cHardware is expensive and slow to scale, while GPS simply doesn\u2019t work indoors,\u201d he said. The company is already active in all U.S. states, though it declined to share customers\u2019 names.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Murarka hopes his company can end the pain associated with a missing food delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, this isn\u2019t just about stopping fraud or refunds. It\u2019s about rebuilding trust between platforms and customers and between drivers and the work they do,\u201d he said. \u201cDrivers are the backbone of delivery platforms, and having experienced those challenges ourselves, we hope to make their work easier through Doorstep.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day, Shashwat Murarka sat in his college apartment thinking about his relationship with food delivery. Sometimes, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[84,73840,73841,4203,3370,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-162525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-canaan-partners","10":"tag-delivery-startups","11":"tag-entrepreneurship","12":"tag-fundraising","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}