Linda Baker

Taking aim at Big Ag – FreightWaves – Linda Baker, Staff Writer

As Walmart (NSYE: WMT), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) battle for dominance in the online grocery wars, a growing number of tech-enabled startups are taking a different approach, aiming to disrupt the conventional food supply chain by using logistics platforms to connect shoppers directly with local farmers and producers. Portland-based MilkRun, for example, seeks to make buying …

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FreightFriend introduces new carrier search feature – FreightWaves – Linda Baker, Staff Writer

Finding reliable, trustworthy transportation partners is a challenge for shippers, brokers, and 3PLs in today’s logistics industry. Search tools currently on the market only allow users to find carriers based on the location of their registered office, resulting in a long list of potential candidates that may or may not run the lane a shipper …

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Behind the scenes with the Convoy gang – FreightWaves – Linda Baker, Staff Writer

Convoy CEO Dan Lewis is giving a tour of the company’s headquarters in downtown Seattle. He points out the stocked kitchens (plural), the 55-person data science team, the P&G Carrier of the Year award and the Ping Pong station, then stops in front of a bulletin board featuring the “Pets of Convoy.” There he pulls …

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Former FreightWaves exec talks transparency, “third-wave” freight-tech and the value of empathy – FreightWaves – Linda Baker, Staff Writer

Jenny Xu, former chief strategy officer at FreightWaves, has taken a position as chief executive of Carggo, a digital freight platform that serves small- and medium-size third-party logistics companies. In a recent telephone interview, Xu talked about synergies between her former and current employers, freight-tech’s “third wave” and how empathy is a key ingredient for …

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FreightTech investment surges in 2019 – FreightWaves – Linda Baker, Staff Writer

PitchBook and FreightWaves have crunched the numbers and confirmed what most of us already know – the FreightTech sector, defined loosely as software companies that aid in the movement of freight, is on a tear. FreightTech growth has an analog in the broader transportation services category, with four of the five largest venture capital deals …

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FreightWaves featured in the Breakout List of high potential and growth startups – FreightWaves – Linda Baker, Staff Writer

The Breakout List of high potential and high growth start-ups for 2019 has been published, and FreightWaves is on the list, finding itself in the company of several renowned companies including Flexport, Clearbit, Bolt, Airtable, Reserve, comma.ai and DeepMind. To perceive the list’s relevance, it is essential to understand the essence of ‘breakout trajectory,’ and …

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