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Deliverr raises 7M to help ecommerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime

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Secureframe secures 56M for a platform that automates an enterprises compliance with standards like HIPAA and SOC 2

Y Combinatorbacked Trella brings transparency to Egypts trucking and shipping industry

137 Ventures raises 210M to give liquidity to startup employees

Flexport acquires technology of former digital freight unicorn Convoy

Nowports raises 53 million to become Latin Americas digital shipping answer to Flexport

Layoffs hit another Softbank co as 32B Flexport cuts 50

Silq spins its technology into visibility for apparel manufacturing

Logistics startup Flexport just raised a SoftBankled round at a whopping 32 billion valuation

Flexports Ryan Petersen joins venture firm Founders Fund as a partner

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Most active investor FJ Labs closes on 260M across two new funds

ShipBlu bags 24M for its ecommerce and fulfilment service in Egypt

Customer service automation startup Lang lands 15M

clicOHs shipping technology provides Amazonlike logistics to ecommerce companies in LatAm

Nigerias Topship raises 25M from Flexport and YC to help merchants with international shipping

Indias WareIQ raises 165M for its Amazonlike delivery platform for sellers

How Freight master Flexports Ryan Petersen learned to CEO

Xeneta makes a splash with 80M on a 265M valuation to scale its crowdsourced sea and air freight analytics

Flexport founder rescinds dozens of job offers to get house in order days after CEO pushed out

The next wave of supplychain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

Noble emerges from stealth to help companies extend lines of credit to their customers

Layoffs hit Flexport another SoftBankbacked startup worth 32B

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Shopify to reduce workforce by 20 sells logistics business to Flexport for 13 equity

Flexports epic plan to build a freight empire with its 110M raise

Sequoiabacked NEXT gets 97M as investment in logistics heats up

Ghost appears with new funding marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

137 Ventures which buys equity from private company shareholders just raised a new fund

FrontEdge raises 10M in debt equity from TLG Flexport to facilitate trade for African exporters

Departing Amazon exec Dave Clark to head logistics startup Flexport

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Investors are pouring money into Latin Americas logistics and shipping businesses

Operations observability platform Avenue launches with 4M

Flexport may lay off workers yet again

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Why Latin Americas freightforwarding opportunity is still attracting capital

PideDirecto bags 525M aims to be Shopify with 30minute deliveries

Amazon Primes dominance is spurring new startup opportunities

African logistics startup Lori Systems raises Series A led by Chinese investors

Looking to become the central hub for logistics management Shipwell raises 35 million

Orca Security raises 20M Series A for its multicloud security platform

Altman brothers lead B2B payment startup Routables 30M Series B

Arena raises money from Peter Thiel and David Petraeus for its decisionmaking AI

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