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Mary O'Connell Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Exclusive: Nexcade emerges from stealth with $2.5 million to transform freight

For years, freight forwarding has promised digital transformation, yet much of the industry still runs on email chains, attachments, and manual workflows. Now, London-based startup Nexcade is stepping out of stealth with a bold mission: to bring end-to-end AI automation to the world of global freight forwarding.  The company announced a $2.5 million pre-seed funding […]

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Mary O'Connell Thursday, September 18, 2025

Lyric’s $43.5m investment: Fueling AI-driven supply chains

Lyric has secured a $43.5 million Series B round to fuel the growth of its AI-driven supply chain intelligence platform, a sign of both the company’s momentum and the broader shift in investor attention toward technology that can keep pace with increasingly complex global logistics. The round reflects the market’s appetite for tools that go […]

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Mary O'Connell Thursday, September 18, 2025

Why Catena’s Approach to Freight Data Matters Now

The freight industry has long struggled with a fundamental problem: messy, fragmented data. Manual check calls, siloed platforms, and limited visibility still define how billions of dollars’ worth of freight moves across the U.S. every year. Catena, a New York–based startup, believes it has found the solution, a neutral data infrastructure layer designed to connect, […]

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