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Pigee (company)
Pigee Inc., commonly known as Pigee or Pigee - The homing pigeon, is an American multinational technology company. It is the developer of the omni-shipping, marketplace Pigee app, which allows tourists to send their travel shopping home directly from shops and street markets they visit whilst on vacation. Pigee currently operates in 111 countries with a focus on Indonesia, Thailand, Australia and the USA. It is the first of its kind application to offer this service of variable location vacation shipping.

Founded by British entrepreneur, Leroy Lawrence in late 2020. It was originally inspired by a business trip to Zanzibar, Tanzania where the founder was unable to fulfil his purchasing demand due to the limitations of carrying heavy products home on an airplane. In 2021 the first pilot of the Pigee application was released in Bali, Indonesia allowing small shops to register on the app and offer shipping of their products to tourists.

Operations
Pigee is headquartered in Delaware, USA with an office in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia for sales, marketing, packaging and fulfilment.

Name origins
The name Pigee is a short friendly name for a homing pigeon. No matter where you are in the world Pigee will get your products home.

Marketplace
Pigee is a marketplace for shipping services and products. As an omni-shipper, depending on your route, Pigee will suggest the most cost effective shipping partners to collect and deliver your product directly from the shop or vendor you have visited. As a niche solution for travel shopping the application translates language between customers and shop owners. It also converts currency automatically keeping transactions short and simple.

Users are able use Pigee as a marketplace not just for shipping but also for hard to find products that are seldom found on e-commerce sites.

Emerging markets
Operating in emerging markets where tourism is a staple income for local people. The Pigee marketplace increases revenue exponentially by converting passing trade into repeat customers.

Funding
In the conceptual pre-seed stage, $150,000 was invested by Lawrence Investment Holdings with the target milestone of MVP release.

In May 2022 Pigee joined the Newchip Accelerator in preparation of its next funding round.

In September 2022 a crowdfunding allocation of the SAFE seed round was released with the SEC regulated PicMii Crowdfunding company.

Partnerships
Pigee Inc. has signed partnerships with shipping partners such as FedEx and UPS in the USA, and Lion Parcel in Indonesia. They have also partnered with a a number of payment providers including Silicon Valley s' Y Combinator start-up, Dots.