venture capitalists

How will venture capitalists shape the future of freight?

Trucking in the fall

Investors who have been holding on to their cash due to pandemic-related uncertainty have reentered the arena, and many are eyeing the logistics space. The coronavirus pandemic simultaneously highlighted the industry’s importance and illuminated areas ripe for improvement in the space, drawing attention from private equity and venture capitalists alike. 

“It takes investment to create new things, especially when technology is involved. Any industry that has undergone significant change and...

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The changing landscape of venture capital (with video)

A lot has happened over the past year since Kunal Mehta, a principal with Hearst Ventures, published “Finding Genius,” a book that documents the financing and startup stories behind companies such as Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Uber (NYSE: UBER), Airbnb, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), and Space-X.

“Before the book was published [in October 2019], I think many of the VCs were saying that there’s a reckoning coming, there’s too much money out there, and there’s too many people starting...

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5 tips for FreightTech startups raising venture capital

The FreightTech scene is almost unrecognizable from when venture capitalists discovered it as a marketplace in 2015. Since then, investment in the space has grown exponentially, but what venture capitalists are looking for has also changed. Here we give FreightTech founders five tips for successfully raising venture capital (VC) money today.

1. Understand where you are in the VC cycle.

Understanding where you are in the VC cycle is one of the most important yet overlooked things you can do to...

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