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Technology company connecting individuals and small businesses with professional resellers for secondhand apparel sales, streamlining resale.
Flyp is a San Francisco, California-based technology company that develops a decentralized online commerce platform connecting individuals and small businesses with professional resellers to liquidate secondhand apparel and consumer goods. The platform allows clients to upload digital photos of their inventory while an internal matching system pairs them with independent professionals who manage the entire listing, pricing, negotiation, packing, and shipping processes. Additionally, the company provides automation tools and cross-listing software that enables these professional sellers to distribute merchandise across major secondary marketplaces, including Poshmark, eBay, and Mercari. Supported by a distributed global workforce of 11 to 50 employees, the commission-based profit-splitting platform has facilitated the movement of over $250,000 worth of secondhand retail merchandise for its users. Originally operating under the name Brisk, Flyp was officially founded in 2018 by technology entrepreneurs James Kawas and Dani.
Flyp has raised $24.5M across 4 funding rounds.
Flyp has raised $24.5M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Flyp has raised $24.5M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Flyp's investors include Outward VC, Alliance of Angels, NextView Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, SignalFire, The General Partnership, Jeffrey Parker, Russell Simmons, Acorn Ventures, Jennifer Fonstad, MAG Ventures, Morningside.
Flyp has raised $24.5M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $5.7M Seed in October 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 2022 | $5.7M Seed | Outward VC | — | Announced |
| Apr 1, 2022 | $10M Series A | — | Alliance OF Angels, NextView Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, SignalFire, The General Partnership | Announced |
| Jul 1, 2021 | $3M Seed | — | NextView Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, SignalFire, The General Partnership | Announced |
| Feb 1, 2016 | $5.8M Seed | — | Jeffrey Parker, Russell Simmons, Acorn Ventures, Jennifer Fonstad, MAG Ventures, Morningside, Structure Capital | Announced |
Flyp (joinflyp.com) is a SaaS tool designed for resellers in the secondhand marketplace. It automates cross-listing items across platforms like Poshmark, eBay, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace, Depop, and Etsy, while offering bots for sharing closets, offers to likers, CAPTCHA solving, and analytics—all from a single dashboard.[3] Serving over 40,000 resellers, Flyp solves the inefficiency of manual posting and inventory management by enabling bulk imports, auto-delisting sold items, and one-click operations, with a 100-day free trial followed by $9/month pricing.[3] This empowers individual sellers and small businesses to scale operations affordably, boosting efficiency in the growing resale economy.[3]
A separate entity, Flyp (flyp.space), is an AI-powered mobile app for creators to launch custom fashion brands without inventory, using print-on-demand across 600+ sustainable blanks and integrating with TikTok Shop.[2] However, the primary Flyp matching the resale focus in available data is the crosslisting tool.[1][3]
Flyp was developed by The Selling Company, based in San Francisco at 44 Montgomery STE 300, to address pain points in reselling.[3] It emerged from the need for an all-in-one solution in a fragmented market, where resellers juggle multiple platforms manually; the app has served the community for years, gaining traction with 40,000+ users through features like unlimited free use for 100 days.[3] Early adopters praised it as a "blessing" over pricier, less reliable bots, highlighting pivotal user feedback that refined its bots for Poshmark sharing and crosslisting.[3]
Relatedly, a resale app called Flyp was co-founded by James Kawas (CEO) and Dani Arnaout (CTO), who built it to connect individual sellers with professional resellers for sourcing and shipping used goods, integrating Shippo for seamless logistics.[1] This backstory underscores Flyp's roots in empowering sustainable resale cycles.
Flyp rides the explosive growth of the resale and circular economy, where platforms like Poshmark and Depop drive billions in secondhand transactions amid sustainability demands.[1][3] Timing aligns with e-commerce fragmentation, where resellers need aggregation tools; Flyp simplifies carrier and platform chaos, much like Shippo does for shipping.[1] Market forces favoring it include rising thrift culture, AI automation trends, and low barriers for solopreneurs—40,000 users show its ecosystem influence by standardizing workflows and reducing manual labor.[3] It amplifies the resale boom, enabling more items to get a "second life" while competing with vertical marketplaces.[1]
Flyp is poised to dominate reseller tools as AI enhancements and platform integrations expand, potentially adding more marketplaces or advanced analytics amid resale's projected doubling by 2030. Trends like mobile-first automation and zero-inventory models will shape it, evolving from bot-focused to full resale OS. Its influence may grow by powering larger seller networks, tying back to its core as the affordable bridge for everyday resellers scaling sustainably.[3]