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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Shippo.\n\nSimon Kreuz is co-founder of Shippo and its President for go-to-market. He started the shipping platform with Laura Behrens Wu in 2013 after the two set out to build an online store and ran into the complexity of shipping, then built Shippo to help merchants scale through shipping.\n\n## What Simon builds\n\n- [Shippo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.md), graded C, 61.9/100, in Shipping \u0026 fulfilment. Multi-carrier shipping API from Shippo. It quotes rates, buys labels, validates addresses, tracks parcels and creates return labels across the carriers it connects, through a REST API, official SDKs and a hosted MCP server. Co-founder, Shippo, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Laura Behrens Wu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/laura-behrens-wu/), Co-founder, Shippo\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Union Square Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/union-square-ventures/)\n- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bessemer-venture-partners/)\n- [D1 Capital Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/d1-capital-partners/)\n- [Jen Tejada](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jen-tejada/)\n- [Jeff Lawson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jeff-lawson/)\n- [Patrick Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/patrick-collison/)\n- [Nat Friedman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nat-friedman/)\n- [Daniel Gross](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/daniel-gross/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Simon Kreuz?\n\nSimon Kreuz is co-founder of Shippo and its President for go-to-market. He started the shipping platform with Laura Behrens Wu in 2013 after the two set out to build an online store and ran into the complexity of shipping, then built Shippo to help merchants scale through shipping.\n\n### What does Shippo make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Shippo from Shippo. Multi-carrier shipping API from Shippo. It quotes rates, buys labels, validates addresses, tracks parcels and creates return labels across the carriers it connects, through a REST API, official SDKs and a hosted MCP server.\n\n### Who has invested in Shippo?\n\nThe sources our research read name Union Square Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, D1 Capital Partners, Jen Tejada, Jeff Lawson, Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.\n\n### How are Simon's tools graded?\n\nShippo is graded C, 61.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://goshippo.com/about\n- https://goshippo.com/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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