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The logistics industry is built on innovation, and startups have come to be a driving force behind that innovation. In the last few years, trucking, supply chain and logistics startups have emerged to disrupt the industry and drive it forward, especially in terms of digitization and automations. Check back here for the latest coverage and analysis of startups that are shaking up the industry.
Schneider National’s Shaleen Devgun joins San Francisco-based venture capital firm 8VC as an advisor. FreightWaves spoke to Devgun and 8VC co-founder and partner Jake Medwell by phone.
Given just 3 minutes to make their pitch and an additional 2 minutes to answer judges’ questions, 15 startup companies did their best to show judges at the Movin’ On conference why their solutions will change the market.
Shippo has launched a new workflow feature that help customers optimize their operations and thereby reduce time spent on deciding their shipping options.
Investors are flocking to the freight industry with million-dollar investments for startups, but what do those investors look for in companies before making an investment?
Demo day session 3 are digital companies providing real solutions in the logistics space.
Startups and incumbents at the demos today are building transparency into their products. Historically freight has been very opaque. The change is emerging here and now.
CoLoadX is a shipping marketplace that helps freight forwarders and NVOCCs in finding better quotes, routing options, and in executing transactions faster.
There’s nothing done at large scale today. That’s just not reality. There’s still more questions than answers. But what is being done, and how?
Shipa Freight, a spinoff from Agility, has created a platform that makes it easier for SMEs to book air and ocean freight online.
Learning Machine has developed an application for issuing and verifying official records using the blockchain as a secure encrypt of trust, which could help reduce driver identity fraud and loss of freight to theft.
Convoy revealed Monday morning that U2’s Bono and The Edge quietly invested in the company last year.
Brokerage firms struggle with finding carriers for loads and real visibility in the industry is still a concern. Trucker Tools is providing a solution to this predicament through its Smart Capacity feature.
Passenger and freight coming to a hub near you—sooner than you may think.
Signs of movement over to rails, OOIDA sounds off on younger drivers, U2 puts its money into trucking.
Regardless of technology, the transportation industry is still built on relationships.
Lanehub is developing a social network where mostly shippers and carriers come together to identify long term efficiencies by aligning their networks—and they just lined up another round of seed funding.
Virgin Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies are competing in UAE to build the first hyperloop network in the region.
Stord is a software-enabled network of warehouses & distribution centers, which helps businesses improve their operational efficiency by helping them move products swiftly and cost-effectively.
Stord is a software-enabled network of warehouses & distribution centers, which helps businesses improve their operational efficiency by helping them move products swiftly and cost-effectively.
Luminar’s sensing platform that is scaling to a capacity possible of equipping every self-driving test vehicle globally by year’s end.
