This IITian is turning traditional shipping on its head with automation

Soham Chokshi's Shipsy is disrupting the offline shipping space with its SaaS workflow management platform

It was just another day at work for IITian Soham Chokshi, who had boarded a metro train to deliver a package from one side of Delhi to another. During the journey, Chokshi gave up his seat for a child he spotted in the crowd. The kid’s father thanked him, noticed his blue shirt, and enquired about his company. This stranger from the train led an angel round of funding in Chokshi’s on-demand logistics service platform Shipsy. Dheeraj Jain, a partner at UK-based hedge fund Redcliffe Capital, was so impressed with Shipsy that he got along a bunch of angel investors