Her voice weakened by a temporary illness, Shippo CEO Laura Behrens Wu couldn’t resist pitching another customer on a recent October morning. She was in a Lyft and had discovered her driver created ...

This morning Shippo, a software company that provides shipping-related services to e-commerce companies, announced a new $45 million investment. The new capital values the startup at $495 million.

E-commerce might seem like it would be an easy way to make a buck. Except for the fact that it isn’t. That’s because competition on the web is insanely fierce, so profits are usually razor thin. And ...