Convoy was an American trucking software company co-founded by CEO Dan Lewis and CTO Grant Goodale. On 25 July 2017, the company raised $62 million in Series B funding, led by Y Combinator&#x27;s Continuity Fund. Other new investors included Cascade Investment CEO Bill Gates, Mosaic Ventures, former ...

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Two weeks after Seattle trucking startup Convoy abruptly shut down operations and laid off most of its roughly 500 employees, the company’s technology and some of its key personnel will move to fellow freight startup Flexport, according to Flexport’s CEO.

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News of the sale comes two days after a laid-off Convoy employee sued the company for not giving legally required advance notice of the cuts. And according to an internal message shared with The Times, Convoy did not pay severance to laid-off workers due to its debts.

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Convoy had smart technology, a star-studded lineup of investors and a shiny valuation that spoke to its big ambitions. But the backing that investors sent the business in early 2022, at the peak of pandemic-driven shipping demand and venture-capital fervor for new supply chain tech, also helped accelerate the undoing of one of the brightest of a long lineup of digital startups. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones &amp; Company...

How Digital Freight Darling Convoy Ran off the Road - WSJ

Convoy’s shutdown, which wiped out the equity investors that poured $900 million into the company, marks the most extreme downfall of a once-high flying startup in recent years, amid a contraction of venture funding that has left many money-losing startups struggling to survive.

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With plentiful truck capacity, shippers could find attractive freight rates with large carriers as opposed to the independent truckers and smaller companies targeted by Convoy, Avery Vise, a trucking analyst with FTR Transportation Intelligence, told GeekWire.

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The collaboration among Convoy, J.B. Hunt, Uber Freight and others to use technology to streamline scheduling at the dock level is proceeding as planned, according to company leaders at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain conference in Cleveland. Read More »

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Seattle-based Convoy was founded to disrupt the fragmented, low-tech freight brokerage business, in which truckers and customers connected by phone and fax. Before this week, the company had about 500 employees.

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Convoy raised $260 million at a $3.8 billion valuation just 18 months ago. Now the company is shutting down. (GeekWire File Photo) Convoy&#x27;s plan to

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