The software platform could help restore “lifetime value” to the 9.5 million tons of furniture that end up in landfills each year.
DASH wants to land the package, not the plane.
8VC founding partner Jake Medwell has become the most active freight tech investor in the past five years. He told FreightWaves how the space is changing.
Startup Baton Trucking believes it can eliminate waste and detention through a drop yard network.
The former chief customer officer for YRC Worldwide will work with 8VC portfolio companies full-time.
FreightTech venture investing is super hot, but most of these startups continue to lose money. Is this a fad or something else? Last year, FreightWaves created a FreightTech Venture Index to track the venture capital (VC) investing in FreightTech startups. The term FreightTech is defined loosely as software companies and other technologies that aid in […]
A digital logistics startup that helps trucking companies automate workflow has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Goldcrest Capital and 8VC.
The Houston-based startup is run by executives with decades of experience in global logistics, and plans to tackle the oil and gas vertical first.
8VC, the venture capital fund dedicated to solving real-world problems through industry transformation, announced Alan Gershenhorn, former Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of United Parcel Service, Inc., (NYSE: UPS), has joined the firm as an advisor.
The rapid growth in investment resembles the Fintech sector from 2006-10, but TransportTech is still an understudied and less well understood field for venture investment.
FreightWaves raises $13 million from venture capital investors from San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, and New York to continue scaling the freight market analytics platform.
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.
Schneider National and 8VC announced a partnership with Platform Science to develop data platforms to allow carriers to manage IoT data and generate custom, realtime insights.
