Startup Grind

AUGUST 20, 2018

I currently work for a large global organization that deals with container shipping as well as transport and logistics. The proposal forms around how our organisation can either be completely disrupted by or take full advantage of this massive opportunity that this technology presents. Honestly, I prefer the latter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Lori Systems , an African on-demand logistics and trucking company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to manage their cargo and transporters, has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along with other existing investors.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Thanks to NLP, AI automation systems can engage in (mostly) sensible chatbot conversations with customers, automatically analyze thousands of reviews to gauge overall sentiment, instantly translate documents, or transcribe meeting notes into text, making sense of our primary mode of communication. IDP can automate and make sense of it all.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The platform provides various tools and apps for accomplishing different tasks across freight procurement, trade and transport management, freight audit and payment and document management, as well as dispatch planning and analytics. The result of those major disruptions? billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

James Coombes, co-founder, and CEO of Vector.ai, commented: “Most employees within freight forwarders spend the majority of their time communicating with the 10-25 different entities that might be associated with a given shipment and coordinating freight movement and documentation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. ” Competition in the market. .

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Supply chains have become front-page news since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global networks of everything from furniture makers to grocery suppliers. FreightRoll claims that its app-based, paperless trade documents can save shipping companies up to 30% of freight overhead costs. FreightVerify. FreightRoll.

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