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FreightWaves

Trucking Tech Startup FreightWaves Closes $13M Series A From Logistics Tech VCs, Rise of the Rest, New York Jet

FreightWaves, a fast-growing startup drawing attention for its data analytics and content platform, focused on the freight market, has closed an oversubscribed Series A round of $13 million. The round was led by logistics-focused 8VC with participating investors including Fontinalis Partners, Story Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Revolution’

FreightWaves

Why This Rise of the Rest Winner Is Using the $100K Investment to Fund Employee Education

FreightWaves, the startup building a publication, data analytics service and financial futures market for the freight industry, took home the $100K investment prize at the Rise of the Rest pitch competition in Chattanooga last week. However, while most startups would funnel that money into product development or business growth, founder

Motivo

This Video Platform Wants to Teach Mental Health Professionals to Expand Therapy In Underserved Areas

Rachel McCrickard was a mental health professional for years, working in the early years of her career catering to homeless individuals in Los Angeles. She returned to her hometown of Chattanooga in 2011 to work at a community mental health agency, but she needed to complete the clinical supervision hours

Freightwaves

Freightwaves Is Using Data, Content, and Financials to Build a Bloomberg-Like Empire For Freight Markets

When Craig Fuller started FreightWaves, a niche publication focused on the freight, supply chain and logistics industries, he was focused on educating the world about his other startup, TransRisk. That company provides a market data analytics and tracking dashboard akin to a Bloomberg Terminal. “It was intended to basically educate

workhound

WorkHound's Anonymous Mobile Platform Gives Frontline Workers A Voice

Getting feedback from your employees to make sure you're doing everything you can to keep them happy and productive is hard enough when you're all in the same office — the challenge is magnified when you have employees out in the field. But providing opportunities for feedback

Pass It Down

Pass It Down Wants to Preserve Your Life's Story in Multimedia

Everyone has wisdom to impart and a story to share, but most are not able to serve as their own biographers through a blog or vlog. The truth is that, while our knowledge and life's history might hold a great deal of practical or sentimental value for others,

This Company Wants to Revolutionize 3D Printing By Making It 10X Faster and 50X Cheaper

This Company Wants to Revolutionize 3D Printing By Making It 10X Faster and 50X Cheaper

The additive manufacturing market, otherwise known as 3D printing, surpassed $5 billion in 2015. With industries from automobile to furniture to attire using the process, it stands to grow even more in years ahead. But in order to produce basic parts like the soles of shoes or automobile parts, 3D