Convoy’s founders: CTO Grant Goodale and CEO Dan Lewis. ( Photo: Convoy ) The growth equity investment fund of Google parent company Alphabet, CapitalG, led this round of Convoy’s capital raise, bringing the digital brokerage’s total funding raised so far to more than $265M and a valuation exceeding $1B. As part of the deal, David …
Digital freight-booking startup Convoy raised $185 million in a funding round led by an investment arm of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., GOOG 0.76% adding big new backing for the company competing in an increasingly crowded field trying to reshape U.S. shipping operations. The funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG, one of the biggest investments …
After serving 14 years for the Royal Canadian Navy, Ira Lawrence was ready for a new adventure. He and his wife decided to start a trucking company in 2017, but several hurdles nearly caused them to quit before even getting started. But then Lawrence found Convoy, a Seattle startup that developed an app to match …
