They also run online shops on behalf of well-known brands, of which they expect to be servicing 23 by the end of the year.When he was in an e-commerce business in Germany, Mr Hartmann says, he outsourced "everything".
But BehaviorMatrix has already teamed up with a digital shop, CrowdVerb, on behalf of South Carolina Republicans for work on a special Congressional election this year.
And indeed where competitive risk is concerned, given the space it's playing it is a very crowded one on the food delivery front (with the likes of Deliveroo, UberEats and JustEast competing to conveniently serve consumers' stomaches in Europe), and the likes of Postmates having established a shop-on-your-behalf business in the US.
The initiative seeks to educate children in grades four through six — tweens, in the parlance of marketing — about how advertising works so they can make better, more informed choices when they shop or when they ask parents to shop on their behalf.
Couriers are great at delivering stuff, but don't normally shop on your behalf.
Tok Tok Tok, a French startup that's tackling a similar problem to U.S.-based Postmates — having somebody shop on your behalf and deliver the item within the same day or even hour — has raised its first round of funding.
Quiqup, a London-based delivery startup that operates a "shop on your behalf" app similar to Jinn in Europe or Postmates in the U.S., in addition to a growing B2B business, has raised £20 million in Series B funding.
Spanish startup Glovo, whose platform lets app users summon a gig economy worker to shop on their behalf, be it for a takeaway burger or a multi-bag supermarket shop, has bagged a €115 million (~$134M) Series C round of funding.
The delivery component of the service — including the picking of the items — is being taken care of by UK startup Quiqup, which last month raised a £20M Series B round to grow its "shop on your behalf" app and b2b business.
