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Why I Started fetch Sitting in front of an Excel sheet everyday can make some people go crazy.  Including me.  But it did give me a lot of time to daydream and think about businesses to start.  I earned a finance degree from the University of Minnesota and worked in corporate finance for a while…

The last-mile problem has largely been solved for consumers. Within a day, UPS or Amazon can put a package on anyone’s doorstep. But sometimes instead of the doorstep, that package ends up in the bushes, or lost among a sea of boxes in a building’s leasing office. The last mile is no longer the issue….

The e-commerce explosion has flooded apartment buildings with packages,” Patton said. “I saw what a pain it was for the property managers, and that was an eye-opening moment for me.” Now, Patton says, he has a solution. His startup, Fetch, collects the parcels mailed to apartments at off-site warehouses and then delivers them to residents…

We could blame it on Amazon Prime. Or we could just chalk it up to the growing e-commerce trade with Walmart and now Kroger edging into the delivery space. Whichever route we take, apartments big and small have a package problem. Let’s go ahead and blame it on Amazon Prime. If you are in the…

A Dallas startup that promises to take the hassle out of delivering packages to residents in apartment complexes is moving its business to Austin on the heels of a $3 million investment from a Texas-based venture capital firm.

Fetch, the first off-site package solution for apartment buildings, today announced $3 million in Seed funding, led by Silverton Partners.  With the financing, Kip McClanahan of Silverton will join Fetch’s Board of Directors.

Apartment living is the ultimate social experiment. From thin walls that give you more insight into your neighbors’ lifestyle than you want, to the fight for the last parking spot, to those awkward resident pool parties. Yah, it’s safe to say that communal living is not for the weak. But all those “amenities” pale in…

Eight startups with North Texas ties will compete Monday for $100,000 in the area’s first Rise of the Rest pitch competition. Leaders from the competing startups took some time recently to talk to Dallas Innovates about their businesses, what sets them apart, and how a win next week could impact their work.