Meet the Uber of same-day delivery
The platform is accessible via an app or the web and now has about 4,000 registered accounts, many of them corporate clients
If you live in Joburg, chances are you’ve seen a 1Fetch motorbike darting through the traffic on assignment. This army of bikes, alongside the growing fleets of food-delivery scooters, is riding on Uber’s coattails – and making a success of it. "The idea of 1Fetch was born out of the recent ‘Uberisation’ of everything — we identified an opportunity to provide people and businesses with instant access to a quick and easy courier solution," says co-founder and CEO Jason Psillos. Launched in mid-2016, 1Fetch provides an on-demand courier service using a fleet of mostly company-owned motorbikes. Like Uber — the epitome of the burgeoning platform, or sharing, economy — 1Fetch’s drivers are equipped with smartphones, thus providing users with real-time updates of their deliveries. But while Uber is taking on traditional cabs, Psillos says his company does not compete with major delivery services, since its niche is "urgent and express same-day deliveries" in cities. Traditional couriers s...
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