Steve Case

FreightWaves featured in Rise of the Rest’s first annual report

FreightWaves is featured as one of 21 “portfolio companies” in the Rise of the Rest’s inaugural annual report. Entitled “Place Matters,” the annual report “highlights next-wave portfolio companies scaling in rising ecosystems.” To view the ROTR annual report, follow this link.

The Rise of the Rest (ROTR)® Seed Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund, investing in entrepreneurs across the United States “to give more founders, in more communities, the opportunity to build world-changing...

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Robotics maker Berkshire Grey goes SPAC route

Industrial robotics companies are on blazing-hot growth trajectories and need rapid access to liquidity to help them meet ambitious growth goals. As such, they are ideal targets for a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, a decades-old but suddenly hot financial strategy in which a company is formed to raise capital through an initial public offering (IPO) for the purpose of acquiring an existing company.

The new-age industry and the rejuvenated financial model converged on Wednesday...

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Can Joe Biden get infrastructure done in 2021?

Next month before a joint session of Congress, President-elect Joe Biden plans to lay out his Build Back Better recovery plan that he claims will make “historic” investments in infrastructure.

“It’s time to stop talking about infrastructure and finally start building infrastructure,” Biden said while unveiling his $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan Thursday.

“Millions of good-paying jobs putting Americans to work rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our ports to make them more climate resilient, to...

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Steve Case sees potential in startups outside Silicon Valley (with video)

AOL co-founder and CEO of Revolution LLC Steve Case

When FreightWaves won the Rise of the Rest Chattanooga pitch competition in 2018, it resulted in an investment in the company by one of the biggest names in technology. But, as much as the startup competition meant for FreightWaves and the other Chattanooga-area companies in terms of exposure, it might have meant more to Steve Case and the Rise of the Rest seed fund backers.

“We’re just hoping to be a catalyst and shine a spotlight on cities that are rising, do what we can to drive more...

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FreightTech takes center stage at FreightWaves’ free FreightTech Venture Summit

Just a few short years ago, FreightTech was a relatively unknown term. It is not anymore and venture capitalists and investors have taken notice, flocking to the space in recent years as more and more technology startups look to disrupt the freight space. In 2019, investment in supply chain technology surpassed $10.4 billion, according to Pitchbook.

Since its launch in 2017, FreightWaves has been at the forefront of the FreightTech space. That investment is now going a step further, giving...

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