Pack to the Future™

Thanks for the recognition Climate Salad. We heart you 🫶🏽

We are going to shake up a lazy industry!

It's an interesting time to try and do the right thing by the environment - It's still a big balance of cost vs reward and we plan on reducing the former while increasing the latter for eCommerce merchants. Want to know how much you can save when using our soon-to-launch app? Punch in your fulfilment volume here - save.packtothefuture.co

Curious about the journey of building a sustainable shipping solution that doesn’t fit the usual SaaS mould? Our founder, Dave, has a clear mission: to tackle the 4.5 million tons of eCommerce plastic waste that pollutes our planet annually. It's been a rewarding (and challenging) path, working outside the typical tech scene with a SaaS and hardware mashup designed to drive sustainable shipping solutions. If you’re at TEN13's annual event in Brisbane, we’d love to introduce you to Dave for an insightful chat. He’s ready to share the journey so far and the bold steps we’re taking to build a more sustainable eCommerce future. Join us in disrupting the status quo—one sustainable package at a time.

Help us with market research and be rewarded with some sustainable packaging...

Founders journey for Pack to the Future™ - the eCommerce shipping app that's unfu*king the damage done by a whole lot of plastic that the industry ships products with. My big week broken down into numbers: 1 - investors in the pipeline (on purpose) 0 - social media posts for the brand (😫) 127 - days until we launch the SaaS 6,209,000 - the number of packages I'm hoping to ship in sustainable packaging in 2025. I'm still juggling that fact that my wife left me (for a month, she's back on Monday) and my ability to be a father and a startup founder. This week we tested out our merchant-facing savings calculator that I'll be pushing ad spend through, to build out our pipeline prior to launching (now looking at Feb/Mar '25 for launch). The questions are easy to answer and the math behind the results makes quite the impact. We are polling eCommerce merchants to find out: 1. How many orders they ship each month 2. What is their average cost to ship each order 3. What percentage of their orders ship in <5kg mailer bags 4. What is their website url From this, we've been able to strengthen our datalake for our AI model to crawl and learn about products and shipping habits. I asked these questions to one merchant that I've known for years (and built their website). Entering their details into the calculator, their monthly savings are exciting (see the screenshot) 🤩 They will be potentially removing 140kg of single use plastic from their shipping process EVERY month, and saving a really healthy $9,900 on their shipping related fees (optimising their shipping costs, removing their packaging costs and reducing their platform costs). For clarity, they ship over 7,000 orders a month. Investor wise, I'm in due diligence with one VC as I type this. The VC money isn't life changing but the network and the flow on is positive. I could pull the money out of the equity on my home, or sell a car and retain my shareholding but the balance is the growth I can gain from their involvement with my brand long term. Social media wise, I'm burnt out. I'm a marketer at hearty and right now, putting my face in front of a camera and sharing my brand on social channels is far from where I want to be spending my time. This will change next week though, I've got backup coming in the form of my wife being home to free me up. I've got this amazing permission-based funnel for sharing the brands that use our products on our social accounts - I've just been too under the pump to create the content. Lastly on this week's numbers - 6,209,000 packages in 2025. That's out there! I'll unpack that more next week. It's going to be amazing to see that eventuate but it's a lofty goal. Got questions? ask in the comments. #startup #founder #ecommerce #shopifyapp #fundraising

Thanks for the huge show of support for all the hard work the Climate Salad has put in over the past 3 years. We would really love to see you at our end of year event to celebrate how far we've come in climate tech. Here’s a quick update on what’s happening — * 50+ climate tech companies coming along * An amazing group of climate tech investors and industry leaders * Exciting keynote speaker (announcing soon) * Demo booths including a Swiss climate tech showcase * Award nominations are rushing in! https://lnkd.in/gDX2_UsK Investors coming: * Melt Ventures * Electrifi Ventures Ventures * Ecotone Ventures * NOAB Ventures * Alex de Aboitiz  * Main Sequence * Virescent Ventures Climate Tech Companies Coming: Avani Solutions Alchemy Charge HydGene Renewables newera.bio Alt.Leather Ivygo Conry Tech Fulle Algenie C2Zero DNA Energy FootprintLab TOTEX Avarni Capricorn Power Acacia Money 28Watt Pack to the Future™ Brownee - Sustainability in the baking Carbonaught Pty Ltd Brightspace Event Details * Date: Nov 27  * Time: 4.30 to 8.30pm  * Venue: Paddington Town Hall, Sydney P.S. We have additional activities for founders and investors - contact us for more info.

The global bubble wrap packaging market size is estimated to reach USD 4.78 billion by 2033...at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.52%. Bubble wrap as most people know it is made from polymer film - which is a plastic that takes several centuries to decompose 😲 Take that in - several centuries! Longer than you AND your children are going to live. Where the heck is all that plastic going to go? Globally, only about 9% of plastic is recycled, meaning that an astounding 91% of it ends up in landfills and choking our oceans! Ecommerce as an industry exploded during covid and has contributed to this problem. The issue is, that sustainable alternatives are expensive and merchants aren't prepared to take a hit to their bottom line to be more sustainable (they are struggling with margins as it is, why would they spend more of their profits on sustainability?) This trend has to stop! We can't keep on feeding bulk plastic into our landfills and think that it's ok. We want to do something about it and it's the whole reason why we exist. Commencing in 2025, we plan on distributing our sustainable hex wrap alternative for LESS THAN you can buy a roll of poly bubble wrap! That's a BIG claim right? Follow along as we unpack (pun) just how we plan on doing it.

We’ve reached a milestone and shipped 100,000 orders sustainably 🚀 It’s going to be a tall ask to get to our 1 mill goal by the end of the year but we’ll continue to grow and put all our effort into making sustainable packaging a normal part of eCommerce. #ecommerce #sustainability #eco

Our retail sales are increasing as we ramp up the sustainable packaging offerings 🫶🏼 Thank you everyone for the business so far, your choice to ship sustainability is helping reduce a lot of unnecessary plastic waste from choking our planet.