ZipX (YC W17) — We allow anyone in south east asia to instantly order any product…
We are a group of expats in Hong Kong that want easy and affordable access to buy the products we love from back home. Snacks, foods, health products, and other daily essentials that we miss are either not found in Hong Kong, or are too expensive to buy.
ZipX is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: We allow anyone in South East Asia to instantly order any product…. The founders listed are Osman Mendoza (Founder/CEO), James Steinberg (Founder/Managing Director) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 10, 2016).
Get an email when ZipX changes status, grows its team or files a funding notice. One email first to confirm; nothing else until you click it. At most one a day, one click to stop. Free for up to 3 companies.
Example from a real report (our sample on Target): “The Q2 2026 earnings report, published August 19, 2026, showed adjusted EPS of $2.46 against an expected $2.33” Source: CNBC
We are a group of expats in Hong Kong that want easy and affordable access to buy the products we love from back home. Snacks, foods, health products, and other daily essentials that we miss are either not found in Hong Kong, or are too expensive to buy. We were faced with bad alternatives such as overpriced grocery stores, or expensive package forwarding companies.
We believe that with the help of technology, anyone should be able to buy anything from around the world at an affordable price. We are on a mission to make international commerce seamless.
Osman Mendoza
Founder/CEO
James Steinberg
Founder/Managing Director
Founders, titles and bios as the company published them. Photographs are our own copies of the ones on that record, so they do not break when the original link expires.
One of 95 companies held here in Consumer › Food and Beverage.
No investor is drawn from a Form D — the form states how many invested and never who. The one investor on this graph is named because a batch has exactly one.
Want the whole picture on ZipX?
Example from a real report (our sample on Target): “The Q2 2026 earnings report, published August 19, 2026, showed adjusted EPS of $2.46 against an expected $2.33” Source: CNBC
A Full Report on ZipX: verified, sourced, every claim cited, ready in a few minutes. See pricing.
What the Full Report on ZipX covers
The Short Answer
Which Company This Is
What They Do, And How The Money Works
Who Runs It, And How To Reach Them
The Money: Funding, Valuation, Runway
Who Pays Them, And Who They Are Up Against
Warning Bells
Sources
1 cited source found
Plus the sections for what you are deciding, which you pick after ordering.
You get an alert in MentionFox the next time this company shows up.
Is this you?
If you're behind ZipX: acceptance into a YC batch is one of the few weeks a young company gets looked up by people who matter — investors, other founders, press. FoxPlug turns the commits, deploys, and releases you're already making into that story automatically, so anyone who looks finds something current. GetFoxChat puts a guide on your own site so the people YC's own page just sent you don't read one line and leave.
