seed funding

Canada-based Tyltgo raises $1.8M for white-label services

Tyltgo, a white-label delivery company for retailers, announced it has closed on CA$2.3 million ($1.8 million) seed investment. The round was led by TI Platform Management and included Y Combinator as well as angel investor Charles Songhurst. The Canadian company has also announced Kahled Hussein, a partner at TI Platform Management, will join Tyltgo’s board as chairman.

“Tyltgo has the potential to be one of Canada’s next great success stories, riding on the e-commerce wave from Shopify,”...

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FloorFound raises $4M to simplify resale of oversized retail returns

FloorFound, a software platform that facilitates returns for resales of oversized products for e-commerce retailers, announced Wednesday a $4 million seed round led by LiveOak Venture Partners.  Flybridge Capital, Next Coast Ventures, 8VC, individual investor Brett Hurt and FloorFound’s pre-seed investor, Schematic Ventures, also participated in this round. In total, FloorFound has raised $4.6 million in funding since its inception last year.  

FloorFound will be using the capital to support...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/floorfound-raises-4m-to-simplify-resale-of-oversized-retail-returns

Smart loading dock startup Kargo lands $6 million seed round

Smart loading dock technology

Smart loading dock tech startup Kargo announced Thursday it closed on a $6 million seed round. The round was led by Founders Fund and included Sozo Ventures, Accomplice and Hanover as well as technology executives.

The San Francisco-based company’s loading dock control tower, Argus, verifies incoming and outgoing freight and aggregates data, which allows shippers and carriers to manage dock operations.

Smart loading dock tower, Argus (Photo: Kargo)

The autonomous system uses sensors and cameras...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/smart-loading-dock-startup-kargo-lands-$6-million-seed-round

Social Auto Transport raises $1.5M in seed funding to expand gig economy auto-moving business

Car owners are mostly likely to visit dealerships for service during the first three years of vehicle ownership, J.D. Power reported in its 2020 Customer Service Index survey. The survey found that 88% of customers visit dealers for service in those initial years. The global insights company reported in 2018 that 64% of consumers wait at the dealership for their vehicle to be serviced.

In 2020, though, that changed. Car owners no longer wanted to sit in dealership waiting rooms as COVID gripped...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/social-auto-transport-raises-15m-in-seed-funding-to-expand-gig-economy-auto-moving-business

Assembly Ventures seeks to turbocharge young mobility companies

Chris Thomas exudes a quiet intensity when he speaks about how he identifies the mobility-focused startups he is seeking for his new fund, Assembly Ventures.

He wants to coach as much as invest. He wants to leverage more than a decade of relationships with C-suite executives to neutrally arrange engagements and marriages for the companies Assembly Ventures adopts. 

At 42, Thomas has the pedigree. He comes from a middle-class public school upbringing. After attending Michigan State and Yale...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/assembly-ventures-seeks-to-turbocharge-young-mobility-companies

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