Flexport
Private | |
Industry | |
Founded | United States (2013) |
Founder | Ryan Petersen |
Headquarters | San Francisco, CA, United States |
Key people |
Ryan Petersen, CEO Amos Elliston, CTO Sanne Manders, COO |
Website |
www |
Flexport is a freight forwarding and customs brokerage company based in San Francisco, California.
Business
Flexport is the first international freight forwarder and customs brokerage built around an online dashboard.[1] It has raised $94M to date, including $65M in its latest Series B round. [2]
In April 2015, Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, told Bloomberg News, "There will be more international trade because of Flexport and international trade is a very big thing for there to be more of ".[3] The Economic Times of India said of Flexport, "It's one of the first freight-forwarding outfits to digitise international shipping, making it easy to move goods through customs and around the world."[4]
Flexport's CEO, Ryan Petersen, is a contributor to TechCrunch[5] as well as the founder of Import Genius.[3]
Founding
Flexport was started by Ryan Petersen, a UC Berkeley and Columbia Business School graduate[1] in March 2013.
Growth
In May 2015, the company told Chinese media outlet 36kr.com that they were on pace to generate $60M in sales for 2015.[6]
References
- 1 2 Schubarth, Cromwell (August 7, 2015)."Peter Thiel leads $20M funding of Y Combinator grad Flexport". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
- ↑ "Flexport Raises $65M to Fund Global Expansion - Flexport". Flexport. 2016-09-26. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
- 1 2 "Flexport Wants to Be Uber of the Oceans". Bloomberg.com. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ↑ "Ryan Petersen ships Uber plan to the sea". timesofindia-economictimes. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ↑ techcrunch.com/contributor/ryan-petersen/ TechCrunch contributor page
- ↑ "货运业的Uber来了,Flexport开启大宗物流透明化的2.0时代_36氪". 36氪. Retrieved 22 February 2016.