BufferBox (original) (raw)
BufferBox Inc. was a Canadian startup from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that leveraged parcel kiosks to provide consumers the convenience of picking up their online purchases 24/7. Founded by Jay Shah, Aditya Bali and Mike McCauley, BufferBox's mission was to make missed delivery notices a thing of the past. When consumers signed up for the service, they received a unique 'BufferBox address' to use as their shipping address when shopping online. Members then received an email notification with a unique unlock code as soon as their package was delivered which enabled them to pick up their package from their local BufferBox.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | BufferBox Inc. was a Canadian startup from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that leveraged parcel kiosks to provide consumers the convenience of picking up their online purchases 24/7. Founded by Jay Shah, Aditya Bali and Mike McCauley, BufferBox's mission was to make missed delivery notices a thing of the past. When consumers signed up for the service, they received a unique 'BufferBox address' to use as their shipping address when shopping online. Members then received an email notification with a unique unlock code as soon as their package was delivered which enabled them to pick up their package from their local BufferBox. One year after its founding BufferBox was awarded the 2012 Velocity Venture Fund, and went through the Y Combinator program in Silicon Valley. After conducting a pilot trial at the University of Waterloo, the service expanded to various locations in the Greater Toronto Area. A deal was announced in early November 2012 to install kiosks at GO Transit stations. On November 30, 2012, BufferBox was acquired by Google for a rumored $25 million. The acquisition was seen as a step to compete with Amazon's Locker service. Google Waterloo engineering director Steve Woods said the BufferBox team — which consisted of seven employees beyond its trio of founders — would be kept intact, with Google providing additional resources to help the company grow. Google advised at the time of the acquisition, that they planned on keeping the BufferBox brand active for the foreseeable future. However, on February 21, 2014, Google announced that it was closing down BufferBox. The last day for warehouses accepting packages was set to March 31, 2014. (en) |
| dbo:foundingYear | 2011-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
| dbo:location | dbr:Kitchener,_Ontario dbr:Ontario |
| dbo:owner | dbr:Alphabet_Inc. |
| dbo:owningCompany | dbr:Alphabet_Inc. |
| dbo:parentCompany | dbr:Google |
| dbo:regionServed | dbr:San_Francisco dbr:Greater_Toronto_Area |
| dbo:thumbnail | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/BufferBox_logo.jpeg?width=300 |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | http://www.bufferbox.com https://web.archive.org/web/20041214035421/http:/bufferbox.com/ |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 37797484 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 5058 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1106295530 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:San_Francisco dbc:Technology_companies_established_in_2011 dbr:University_of_Waterloo dbc:2012_mergers_and_acquisitions dbr:GO_Transit dbr:Google dbr:Greater_Toronto_Area dbc:Transport_companies_established_in_2011 dbc:Companies_based_in_Toronto dbc:Google_acquisitions dbr:Waterloo,_Ontario dbr:Alphabet_Inc. dbr:Y_Combinator_(company) dbc:Technology_companies_disestablished_in_2014 dbc:Transport_companies_disestablished_in_2014 dbr:Kitchener,_Ontario dbr:Ontario dbr:File:BufferBox2.JPG |
| dbp:areaServed | Greater Toronto Area, Kitchener-Waterloo, San Francisco (en) |
| dbp:foundation | 2011 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:homepage | http://www.bufferbox.com |
| dbp:location | dbr:Waterloo,_Ontario dbr:Kitchener,_Ontario dbr:Ontario |
| dbp:logo | BufferBox logo.jpeg (en) |
| dbp:name | BufferBox (en) |
| dbp:owner | dbr:Alphabet_Inc. |
| dbp:parent | dbr:Google |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Commons_category dbt:Infobox_company dbt:Short_description |
| dcterms:subject | dbc:Technology_companies_established_in_2011 dbc:2012_mergers_and_acquisitions dbc:Transport_companies_established_in_2011 dbc:Companies_based_in_Toronto dbc:Google_acquisitions dbc:Technology_companies_disestablished_in_2014 dbc:Transport_companies_disestablished_in_2014 |
| rdf:type | owl:Thing dbo:Company schema:Organization dul:Agent dul:SocialPerson dbo:Agent wikidata:Q24229398 wikidata:Q43229 wikidata:Q4830453 yago:WikicatCompaniesBasedInToronto yago:WikicatCompaniesEstablishedIn2010 yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:Company108058098 yago:Group100031264 yago:Institution108053576 yago:Organization108008335 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity dbo:Organisation yago:SocialGroup107950920 |
| rdfs:comment | BufferBox Inc. was a Canadian startup from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that leveraged parcel kiosks to provide consumers the convenience of picking up their online purchases 24/7. Founded by Jay Shah, Aditya Bali and Mike McCauley, BufferBox's mission was to make missed delivery notices a thing of the past. When consumers signed up for the service, they received a unique 'BufferBox address' to use as their shipping address when shopping online. Members then received an email notification with a unique unlock code as soon as their package was delivered which enabled them to pick up their package from their local BufferBox. (en) |
| rdfs:label | BufferBox (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:BufferBox wikidata:BufferBox https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4cwCm yago-res:BufferBox |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:BufferBox?oldid=1106295530&ns=0 |
| foaf:depiction | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/BufferBox2.jpg wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/BufferBox_logo.jpeg |
| foaf:homepage | http://www.bufferbox.com |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:BufferBox |
| foaf:name | BufferBox (en) |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:List_of_Y_Combinator_startups dbr:University_of_Waterloo dbr:University_of_Waterloo_Faculty_of_Engineering dbr:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:BufferBox |
