e-ride

What e-ride does

e-ride is a privately held cross-border package delivery platform that operates a community-driven marketplace between the United States and El Salvador. The platform connects online buyers in El Salvador who want to purchase goods from US retailers with travelers flying the same route, who can monetize otherwise unused luggage space. The company offers two service tiers: CLASSIC, which provides customers with a secure US shipping address to purchase items independently, and PRIME, a full-service option where e-ride assists with purchasing and handles the import process end-to-end. An online quoting tool ("Cotiza tu ride") allows prospective customers to estimate pricing based on product category, price, weight, size, and service tier.

The platform does not rely on proprietary technology; it is built on a standard website with a WordPress-style quoting form and uses WhatsApp (number 777500-64) as its primary sales and support channel. Trust is established through a formal traveler onboarding protocol including identity verification, an interview process, and a shared-responsibility contract, which underpins the company's claim of 100% insured shipments when defined conditions are met. The pricing model is transaction-based with a take rate on each delivery, billed on a pay-as-you-go basis with no publicly disclosed pricing.

e-ride serves two distinct customer segments: online buyers in El Salvador who lack reliable, insured cross-border shipping options, and travelers between the US and El Salvador looking to offset travel costs. The go-to-market motion is community-led, relying on organic social media, WhatsApp direct outreach, and 30-minute informational meetings scheduled for prospective travelers. The company is privately held with no disclosed funding, leadership team, employees, or revenue figures, and currently operates exclusively on the bilateral USA-to-El Salvador corridor.

Name

e-ride

Legal name

e-ride

Website

https://e-ride.network

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

e-ride is a community-driven marketplace connecting online buyers in El Salvador with US travelers who carry packages in their luggage space. The platform offers CLASSIC (secure US address) and PRIME (full-service purchase assistance) tiers with insured delivery, operating exclusively on the USA-to-El Salvador corridor.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

El Salvador

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Package Import Service Fees: e-ride charges fees for facilitating package delivery from the United States to El Salvador through their traveler network. The platform offers two service tiers: CLASSIC (providing a secure address for customers to order independently) and PRIME (full-service purchase assistance with all-inclusive pricing including the item cost and delivery).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

e-ride is a two-sided online marketplace that pairs online shoppers in El Salvador with travelers flying from the United States, allowing buyers to ship purchases in travelers' luggage and travelers to monetize unused luggage space. The service is offered in two tiers: CLASSIC, which provides a secure US shipping address for self-directed purchases, and PRIME, a full-service offering where e-ride purchases the item on the customer's behalf and delivers it to El Salvador, with packages insured when three conditions are met.

Product overview

e-ride is a package delivery platform that connects online shoppers in El Salvador with travelers from the United States who have available luggage space. The platform offers two service tiers: CLASSIC (which provides a secure US shipping address for customers who want to purchase items independently) and PRIME (a full-service option where e-ride assists with purchasing and handles the import process). The platform supports various product categories including cell phones, laptops, clothing, liquids, and other technology items, with package size options ranging from jewelry to guitars. A product quoting tool enables customers to calculate shipping costs based on item type, price, weight, and selected service level.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CLASSIC Service tier in which e-ride provides customers with a secure US shipping address so they can make purchases from US retailers on their own and have the packages routed through e-ride's traveler network for delivery to El Salvador.
• PRIME Full-service offering in which e-ride assists the customer with purchasing the item (paid via credit card or deposit of an all-inclusive price) and handles the entire import process, delivering the item to El Salvador through the traveler network.
• Cotiza tu ride (Quote Calculator) Interactive web tool that lets customers select product categories (cell phones, laptops, clothing, liquids, technology items, other), enter prices and weights, choose package sizes, and select between CLASSIC and PRIME service options to obtain a shipment quote.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% insured shipments when conditions are met
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• BoxC: BoxC is a US-based package forwarding service that provides shoppers a US address to consolidate and forward purchases internationally. It serves an adjacent rather than directly competing role to e-ride — focused on US-based buyers shipping abroad rather than Latin American buyers sourcing from the US via travelers.
• Reship: Reship is a package forwarding and forwarding-as-a-service provider giving international shoppers a US shipping address. It is thematically adjacent — enabling cross-border e-commerce — but operates through formal carriers rather than the peer-to-peer traveler model that defines e-ride.

Direct peers

• Grabr: Grabr operates a peer-to-peer cross-border delivery marketplace that connects international travelers with shoppers wanting products from another country. It is the closest functional analogue to e-ride, with the same asset-light model of monetizing travelers' luggage space, and serves multiple Latam corridors including routes into and out of the US.
• Casilla: Casilla is a cross-border shopping platform that gives Latin American consumers a US address to receive packages and consolidates them into shipments to countries such as Colombia, Mexico, and Chile. It competes for the same online-shopper-in-LATAM use case that e-ride addresses, with a similar two-tier (DIY address vs. assisted purchase) structure.
• Aeropost: Aeropost is a Miami-based cross-border e-commerce and parcel logistics company focused on US-to-Latin America shipping for individual shoppers and retailers. It targets the same US-to-Central-America buyer persona as e-ride but executes through formal courier operations rather than traveler carry-on capacity.
• Skypostal: Skypostal is a US-to-Latin America parcel forwarder serving online shoppers and small businesses across multiple Central and South American destinations. It targets the same El Salvador and Central American corridor as e-ride but uses formal logistics infrastructure instead of travelers' luggage.
• Aeroflash: Aeroflash is a Miami-based courier specializing in document and parcel shipping to Central America and the Caribbean, with strong El Salvador presence. It serves the same buyer demographic — Central American diaspora and shoppers — that e-ride reaches via its traveler network.

Broad incumbents

• FedEx Cross Border: FedEx operates a global parcel and freight network with established US-Latin America trade lanes, customs brokerage, and insured international shipping. It competes with e-ride at the upper end of the market through formalized cross-border e-commerce solutions and could easily expand its insurance and digital storefront offerings to challenge e-ride's niche.
• DHL Express: DHL Express provides international time-definite parcel shipping with full customs clearance into El Salvador and across Latin America. It is a broad incumbent whose MySupplyChain and e-commerce cross-border services compete directly for the insured US-to-El Salvador parcels that e-ride's PRIME tier targets.
• UPS Worldwide Express: UPS offers international parcel shipping with brokerage services into Central America and a dedicated UPS Access Point network. As a broad incumbent, it competes with e-ride for the formal, insured cross-border parcel market that PRIME customers could otherwise use.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/eride_network
• Facebookfacebook.com/eride.network
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/e-ride-network

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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