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Birmingham's REPOWR brings "asset-as-a-service" model to trucking

Birmingham's REPOWR brings "asset-as-a-service" model to trucking

The co-founders of REPOWR know all about the traditional inefficiencies surrounding the logistics industry. Patrick Visintainer and Spencer Ware, who worked in logistics and transportation insurance and liability respectively, saw that trucks were often underutilized when it came to moving things from point A to point B. “[We] saw

For Atlanta-based Variant, Driver-Centric Innovation Is Key To Changing Trucking Industry

For Atlanta-based Variant, Driver-Centric Innovation Is Key To Changing Trucking Industry

Cameron Ramsdell built his career around the shipping and logistics industry. But he wasn’t initially sold on trucking. While US Census data shows there are 711,000 different trucking companies employing over 3.5 million people, Ramsdell told Hypepotamus that the industry remained fragmented and largely adverse to technology

workhound

WorkHound Raises Seed to Help Truckers, Nurses, and Other Distributed Workers Tell the Boss When Something's Wrong

Workforce management startup WorkHound has announced the close of a $1.5 million seed funding round. The four-year-old company will be using the capital to scale growth of their anonymous feedback product that allows frontline employees to share feedback instantly with employers. The Chattanooga-based WorkHound was founded

Why West Coast Trucking Tech Startup Convoy Wants to "Create Something New" In Atlanta HQ

Why West Coast Trucking Tech Startup Convoy Wants to "Create Something New" In Atlanta HQ

Dan Lewis, CEO of digital freight broker startup Convoy, thought about the location of their second office for months. He looked into more than 20 cities on the East Coast to find the right fit of not only a logistics hub, but also an attractive city for emerging talent. That&

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

Tech Titan: Rapper T.I. Pumps 'Mulaah' Into the Atlanta Startup Scene

Tech Titan: Rapper T.I. Pumps 'Mulaah' Into the Atlanta Startup Scene

Rapper and entertainer Clifford Joseph ‘T.I.’ Harris, Jr. has made multiple plays in Atlanta's tech startup scene recently. The artist announced his partnership with both an early-stage fintech platform founded by two Georgia Tech engineering grads, and a scaling logistics technology startup, Sudu. He made investments