Smart parcel delivery box company Pelipod has relocated from London to Bristol and become a member of the SETsquared business incubation programme.
Founded in 2013, Pelipod has created a connected, secure, unattended parcel box that uses machine-to-machine communications to transmit secure codes for parcel and user access; allowing both deliveries and returns from designated premises. 
The system is entirely self-contained and requires no integration for power or communications.
Pelipod is joining SETsquared, the collaboration between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey which provides services to accelerate businesses and boost enterprise.
Based in Bristol’s Engine Shed innovation hub, it has become one of the most successful business incubation organisations in the world.
Pelipod founder and CEO Karl Wills said: “We have brought our product to market and the scale of both the B2B and B2C opportunity is immense. To fully capitalise on the UK and international opportunities before us we were keen to be part of an organisation with a proven ability to help technology organisations grow exponentially. SETsquared has an unrivalled track-record of assisting UK businesses become global successes and we are delighted to be accepted as a member of the Bristol centre.”
The Pelipod product began field trials late last year and has started selling to consumers in March. It now has a number of live customers across the UK. It has also attracted significant interest from UK and international carriers.
SETsquared Bristol centre director Nick Sturge said: “We have known Pelipod since its early days and it has a great and well thought-out solution for the big problem of the unreliability of parcel delivery. We recognised the huge growth potential of Pelipod and the strength of the founding team and are delighted to have them join us in Bristol.”
Engine Shed has installed a Pelipod to streamline receipt of its own deliveries and continue its model of being an early adopter of innovative technologies and methodologies.
