Freelancer, a jobs and crowdsourcing marketplace, has acquired Channel 40, an enterprise marketplace that connects freight owners with transport operators. Coincident with the acquisition, Freelancer has launched Freightlancer.com, a global marketplace for freight, shipping and transportation, according to a Nov. 19 press release. Channel 40 primarily services the construction, mining, tunneling, rail and oil, and […]
November 20, 2018
Just three years after its founding in Seattle by two former Amazon executives, the leading digital freight brokerage Convoy reached a unicorn valuation and took the #4 spot in the Freight.Tech 25. Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO, worked at Microsoft and Google before serving as the GM of New Shopping Experiences at Amazon. Grant Goodale,