TruckSmarter raises $25M to grow owner-operator ‘ecosystem’
“Their truck-first mentality is the right approach to win the highly fragmented road freight industry,” says a Founders Fund partner on its recent investment.
“Their truck-first mentality is the right approach to win the highly fragmented road freight industry,” says a Founders Fund partner on its recent investment.
FreightTech 100 nominations end soon It’s the second most wonderful time of the year behind college football returning. If you or someone you know is innovating or disrupting the freight industry, the nominations for the annual FreightWaves FreightTech 100 are ending on Friday. To submit a nomination, use the link here. An external peer group […]
La startup tiene un enfoque único de distribución y monetización
The startup will hit an $11 million annual run rate in September.
Crowley Solutions CPO Shashank Panchangam explains how siloed data will stall the industry’s fintech future.
This white paper explores the challenges in the logistics procurement market and the tactics best-in-class teams use to regain control of capacity and cost while ensuring procurement excellence.
“This allows Samsung to set a new bar of service levels for logistics customers, and Vizion supports this through hyperfocus on enhanced visibility technologies,” said Kyle Henderson, co-founder and CEO of Vizion.
“While this was not an easy decision to make, restructuring our organization keeps us on a path of success, provides the opportunity to improve efficiency and collaboration and allows us to better address the evolving needs of our customers,” said project44 founder and CEO Jett McCandless.
Redwood is focused on bringing together a number of strong solutions that already exist. The open supply-chain ecosystem enabled by RedwoodConnect operates more like an app store than a single application, facilitating the ability to integrate a variety of solutions.
The company specifically runs its fleet on Interstate 5 using proprietary technology to relay drivers.
As the economy corrects itself, where does VC stand?
To a certain extent, if you don’t have buy-in, then don’t buy it. So many tech initiatives fail to launch because the team in charge of using it is not set up for absolute success.
Shippers should reconsider the pecking order of asset-based trucking companies first, brokerages second.
CEO Brett Suma lays out Loadsmith’s definition of capacity as a service.
Mexico-based digital freight forwarder Nowports has achieved unicorn status after closing a $150 million series C round.
FreightWaves SONAR is the industry’s leading and fastest freight forecasting platform. SONAR provides the clearest insight into freight pricing, and subscribers can reliably forecast supply chain demand and capacity by using spot rate and tender data for predictive rates. FreightWaves’ CFO/COO Spencer Piland noted, “SONAR has been proven time and again to make an operational […]
As spot rates tumble, shippers should consider rerunning their RFPs to lock down better prices.
The accelerator firm’s Supply Chain Innovation Platform connects Fortune 500 companies with FreightTech startups for continuous logistics innovation and efficiency.
“FreightTech is only as good as the relationships that FreightTech enables and the data feeding into freight technology,” said Michael Johnson, EVP of strategy at Redwood Logistics.
MVMNT’s complete freight management platform gives you control over your freight without the disproportionate cost of a traditional TMS.