BravoTran’s secret sauce for automating freight forwarder pain points

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By Matt Bernstein, founder and CEO of BravoTran

On June 1, we launched BravoTran. Behind the scenes, inside HubTran, we had been preparing for over a year. This is the story of why we built BravoTran and where we’re taking the company.

When I founded HubTran in 2015, automating back-office and document workflows was not top of mind for transportation companies. But our powerful value proposition struck a chord in the U.S. 3PL industry, and the business grew rapidly, resulting in a $97 million...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bravotrans-secret-sauce-for-automating-freight-forwarder-pain-points

BravoTran, HubTran’s freight forwarding spinoff, isn’t just any tech startup

When TriumphPay acquired document automation platform HubTran in June, former HubTran CEO Matt Bernstein was faced with a choice: to take a victory lap or to keep building.

He saw an opportunity: Because TriumphPay is focused on North American freight, HubTran’s still-young business serving international freight forwarders wouldn’t have a home. It was too good to pass up. In June, BravoTran announced its spinoff from HubTran, fully focused on document and process automation for international...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bravotran-hubtrans-freight-forwarding-spinoff-isnt-just-any-tech-startup

BravoTran spins off from HubTran, sets sights on freight forwarding efficiencies

A spinoff from the recent acquisition of HubTran by the TriumphPay subsidiary of Triumph Bancorp (NASDAQ: TBK) is setting up shop to bring that technology to the freight forwarding business.

The new company, BravoTran, is based in Chicago. 

A group of about a dozen employees from HubTran is taking what BravoTran founder and CEO Matt Bernstein said was a “nascent” effort at HubTran to penetrate freight forwarding, which he said suffers from the same excessive use of paper and antiquated processes...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bravotran-spins-off-from-hubtran-sets-sights-on-freight-forwarding-efficiencies