On the TechVancouver stage ×1
First seen on the TechVancouver stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Saba ↗
In their words
I emigrated to Canada in September 2012 to study pre-med at UBC. It was my dream to study medicine since I was seven years old. I graduated in 2015, and in my last year I knew that I cannot go to med school — the reason, I was an international student.
It was in summer 2016 that I had to shut it down, because I didn't have four hundred dollars per month to pay for servers. And we had five thousand people daily using our app.
If you told me at that time that there are people called investors out there who give you money to build your business, I would have told you, what's wrong with these people?
Around the web ×1
Quick answers
What is Spocket?
A Vancouver dropshipping marketplace: retailers browse suppliers, list their products and have orders shipped direct, so they carry no inventory and no upfront cost.
How did he get started?
After a first startup — a safer Craigslist called Vanchat — ran out of server money in 2016, he joined The Next Big Thing accelerator and spent the last two weeks of December scouring Reddit, Quora and Facebook groups for a problem worth solving (TechVancouver stage 2018-09-03).
How much has Spocket raised?
About US$2 million across two rounds, the larger being a US$1.5 million seed in August 2018 with Panache Ventures, 7 Gate Ventures and Plug and Play participating.