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CloneOps.AI built solutions for a range of industries.

Pallet emerged as a FreightTech trailblazer and became a winner of FreightWaves’ inaugural AI Excellence in Supply Chain award for its cutting-edge solution, CoPallet. The company is confronting a significant inefficiency in the supply chain industry, where manual workflows such as quoting, load building, rate negotiation, and updating portals have become bottlenecks. These repetitive tasks […]

Infrastructure. How important is a fixed base of electric charging for commercial vehicles? Maybe not as much as we’re told.

Transportation lawyer Cassandra Gaines describes the process of combining legal lessons into carrier monitoring FreightTech.

The more ocean shipping is in the news, the more attention it gets from tech founders and investors.

In this issue: AI Fleet raises $21 million; the American Transportation Research Institute ranks trucking concerns; and the Logistics Managers’ Index is expanded. Trucking in disruption: AI Fleet raises $21 million series A Trucking tech startup AI Fleet recently completed a series A round for $21 million led by Obvious Ventures with participation from Compound, […]

Lidar startups are selling their wares to autonomous vehicles and other businesses, hedging their bets to survive in an overpopulated field.

FreightTech got its glow up this month. Automation is king and low emissions are the way of the future.

Venture capital in oil and gas pales by comparison to climate technology investment, but there are potential unicorns out there.

Evan Efstathiou discusses why VCs are looking to invest more in maritime just as shipowners are looking to partner more with startups.

Supply chain tech investment is at a record peak, with over $52B invested in 2020 alone, up 2500% since the start of the decade.

At the American Shipper Global Trade Tech summit Wednesday, Cambridge Capital partners discussed what they look for in an investment.

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.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, YRC Worldwide is set to spend $700 million, Navistar and Samsara announce a tie-up and a PPP loan wasn’t enough to save an Alabama carrier.

Outrider focuses on autonomous zero-emissions yard operations for logistics hubs.

Amazon is looking to buy Zoox, a self-driving startup that seeks to create a fleet of electrified robo-taxis.

Digital freight forwarding startup Beacon raises $15 million in Series A investment.

Brian Aoaeh interviews CEOs of several supply chain tech startups about their status during the pandemic.

Businesses around the world are being affected by the pandemic. Among the hardest hit are startups. Brian Aoaeh offers advice for tech startups in the supply chain space.

LoadStop provides a TMS solution that has a built-in compliance manager and an autonomous dispatcher that helps fleets find best-match loads in the spot market.