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Livible, the storage company founded by startup vet Terry Drayton, has acquired Boston-based Fetch Storage as it embarks on East and West Coast expansion.

Livible aims to take the hassle out of storing stuff. The startup picks up customers’ excess belongings, takes them to a storage facility and then drops them back off at the house as needed. The company says its method can save some of its customers as much as 15 percent over other storage options.

Today, the company operates in Seattle and Portland, and the acquisition adds Boston to its footprint.

“Boston was strategic to our expansion plan as our East Coast beachhead,” Drayton said in a statement. “The key was hiring the experienced Fetch team. Now, with great teams on both coasts, we plan to expand southward in parallel.”

The company said it will soon begin raising a $10 million Series A round to kickstart a national expansion. In its history, Livible has raised $5 million, and its investors include executives from Amazon, Costco, Microsoft and Nordstrom.

Founded in 2013, the company started as Storrage and spent the next few years figuring out its business model and experimenting with new service offerings. In addition to its pick-up and store services, Livible also makes labels and apps that help people organize their things.

Livible’s tech prowess helped it beat out 11 other suitors for Fetch. The company’s executives decided to sell when faced with the possibility of an expensive technology upgrade. Livible’s tech makes it easy to integrate the new acquisition and get customers set up with its apps quickly. Livible absorbed Fetch’s team and rebranded the service following the acquisition.

“Our systems were designed for this, so we completed the transition the weekend after closing. The former Fetch customers immediately gained online access via our web and mobile apps. They were used to having to call and email so their response has been very positive.”

Drayton has started numerous companies throughout his career, covering everything from politics to payment processing for youth sports to bottled water. His most well known venture was grocery delivery company HomeGrocer.com, which enjoyed a $264 million IPO in 2000 and was one of the most prominent Seattle-based Internet companies of the dot-com era with its peach-colored delivery trucks zooming throughout the city.

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