Boxhub is a technology company.
Boxhub is America's largest online marketplace for buying new and used shipping containers. Our platform makes it easy for anyone to buy a container to repurpose into something new.
Boxhub has raised $3.0M across 1 funding round.
Boxhub has raised $3.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Boxhub is an e-commerce and logistics platform that enables the frictionless purchase, sale, and delivery of new and used shipping containers.[1][2][3] It serves both businesses and individuals for applications like storage, moving, housing, and industry-specific uses such as affordable housing, pop-up restaurants, and emergency shelters, solving the logistical challenges of a traditionally analog, pen-and-paper industry by digitizing transactions, automating supply chains, and promoting container reuse for sustainability.[1][2][4][6] Thousands of customers, including NASA, General Electric, Hobby Lobby, and the New York City Housing Authority, have used the platform, with the company raising $15.1M total funding, including a $12.4M Series A in 2023, to fuel U.S. expansion and global growth.[1][2][3]
Boxhub was founded in 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Philip Skov and Maximilian Birner (Co-Founder and CEO), initially targeting the global billion-dollar market for used shipping containers.[1][4][5] The idea emerged to disrupt an inefficient industry reliant on manual processes, making buying and selling simple, efficient, and transparent while enabling reuse of the 25 million containers in circulation.[4][6] Early traction came through its managed marketplace model, attracting thousands of U.S. customers and high-profile buyers; a pivotal $2.7M seed round in 2022, led by Delivery Hero CEO Niklas Östberg and angels like Unity Technologies founder David Helgason and Uber's Conrad Whelan, supported Toronto headquarters and U.S. expansion before shifting to New York.[1][2][3][5] The company evolved from a Danish startup to a Series A player headquartered at 228 Park Avenue South, New York.[2][3]
Boxhub rides the supply chain and logistics tech wave, digitizing a fragmented $30B+ global shipping container market amid rising e-commerce, sustainability demands, and post-pandemic reshoring.[1][2][4] Timing aligns with labor shortages, container imbalances from trade disruptions, and ESG pressures, where tech enables reuse over new production; market forces like urbanization and modular construction (e.g., housing shortages) favor its model.[1][3][6] It influences the ecosystem by partnering with depots and trucking operators, fostering efficiency in maritime/transport tech, and paving the way for AI-driven inventory in logistics alongside peers like xChange and Truckola.[2][4]
Boxhub is poised to dominate container e-commerce through international expansion beyond the U.S., advanced supply chain automation, and deeper sustainability integrations like AI matching for reuse.[3] Trends in green logistics, modular building booms, and global trade volatility will propel growth, potentially scaling to a unicorn valuation with network effects in a trillion-dollar shipping sector. Its influence may evolve from U.S. marketplace to global platform, redefining container trade as effortlessly as online retail transformed goods—modernizing shipping one container at a time.[1][2][6]
Boxhub has raised $3.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Boxhub's investors include 7percent Ventures, foobar.vc, Lunar Ventures, One Way Ventures, Will Ventures, Alexander Ljung, Ed Baker, Luca Ascani.
Boxhub has raised $3.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $3.0M Seed in April 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2022 | $3.0M Seed | 7percent Ventures, foobar.vc, Lunar Ventures, One Way Ventures, Will Ventures, Alexander Ljung, Ed Baker, Luca Ascani |