Risk management platform Paxafe closes investment with strategic industry insiders

Visibility and risk management platform Paxafe announced it has closed on an additional $1.5 million in capital  led by early-stage fund Venture 53 with participation from Value Chain Ventures, project44 founder and CEO Jett McCandless and Peter Rentschler, CEO of supply chain business consulting and software development firm Metafora, formerly known as CarrierDirect. 

This comes after recently raising its seed round in 2021, led by Ubiquity Ventures and participation from Greenlight...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/risk-management-platform-paxafe-closes-investment-with-strategic-industry-insiders

Haul lands $10M in funding, plans expansion of on-demand driver platform

For an industry that seems to be in desperate need of truck drivers to meet peak volume demands, Haul has arrived at the right time.

The on-demand truck driver platform announced Wednesday that it has closed a $10 million funding round led by B Capital Group. Haul’s new funding adds to a $3 million seed round announced in February 2021.

This latest round of financing includes some of the top leaders in the supply chain and marketplace technology space, including previous funders Hack VC, Next...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/haul-lands-10m-in-funding-plans-expansion-of-on-demand-driver-platform

Viewpoint: What I learned after divorcing the North American logistical arena

This commentary was written by Robert Nathan, founder of Value Chain Ventures. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.

By Robert Nathan

Many of you reading this have experienced the “pull” of the freight-force: an indescribable force that supply chain professionals around the globe harness to improve the global supply chain and hence the global economy. The inertia and intensity of the question, “How can...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/viewpoint-what-i-learned-after-divorcing-the-north-american-logistical-arena

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