Convoy founders cautious about self-driving trucks after raising $62M; many regulatory and logistical hurdles to overcome There’s been a lot of talk about self-driving trucks and how autonomous technology will impact the freight industry, even before… Read More
Convoy raises $62M from Bill Gates and other luminaries to transform trucking industry with technology It’s a warm summer afternoon at the TA Seattle East truck stop in North Bend, Wash., and Jerry Brooks is… Read More
Watch out Convoy: Here comes Uber Freight It’s always a daunting proposition when a multi-billion dollar juggernaut enters your startup turf. That happened this week for Seattle-based… Read More
GeekWire Awards: Vote for Seattle’s most promising Startup of the Year The 2017 GeekWire Awards are less than a month away, so that means it’s time to vote for the iconoclastic tinkerers,… Read More
Convoy keeps on trucking, hires former Uber Seattle engineering chief Convoy is putting a little more gas in the tank. The Seattle startup, which matches trucking companies with shippers that need… Read More
GeekWire 200 January update: New products, big deals and rapid growth propel startups up the list Expect a lot of activity from the GeekWire 200 list of privately-held Pacific Northwest startups in 2017. This year, we… Read More
Amazon reportedly building app to connect truckers with shippers, possibly putting pressure on Convoy Amazon is increasingly spending time on technology to revolutionize the supply chain, so a report out today from Business Insider… Read More
Consumer goods giant Unilever partners with on-demand trucking startup Convoy to help move shipments Convoy just landed one of its most crucial deals to date. The Seattle-based on-demand trucking startup today announced that Unilever… Read More
Working Geek: How Convoy CTO Grant Goodale gets his best ideas A few years ago, Convoy co-founder and CTO Grant Goodale took up running after a close friend suffered a coronary… Read More
Tech Moves: Convoy investor Grant Ries joins startup as chief business officer; HomeAway names John Kim president; and more Grant Ries, who was an investor during both the angel and Series A funding rounds at Convoy, was so impressed by… Read More
Advice from Jeff Bezos: Here’s what the Amazon CEO taught this startup about cultural values There are sprinkles of Amazon influence at Seattle startup Convoy, and that’s not by mistake. Convoy CEO Dan Lewis spoke… Read More
GeekWire 200 July update: Fresh faces Hiya and Convoy rising up the ranks Big funding rounds and new hiring helped companies move up in this month’s GeekWire 200 ranking of the Pacific Northwest’s top… Read More
Podcast Q&A: Convoy CEO Dan Lewis on lessons learned from Amazon, and disrupting the trucking industry In a little more than a year, on-demand trucking startup Convoy has raised nearly $19 million from a high-profile group of investors.… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Football robots, giant piles of tech cash, the ‘Uber of Trucking,’ and Chewbacca trivia This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: An NFL team has begun practicing against robots; how Zillow missed its Zestimate,… Read More
GeekWire Awards 2016: It’s time to vote for Startup of the Year Building a startup from scratch is no easy task, but the Pacific Northwest has no shortage of entrepreneurial wunderkinds. The… Read More
Greylock leads $16M round for on-demand trucking startup Convoy; Reid Hoffman joins board Convoy already had an impressive list of investors. Now the young Seattle startup has even more high-profile backers that are investing… Read More
Convoy raises $2.5M from Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, others for new on-demand trucking startup A new Seattle startup has raised $2.5 million from an impressive group of investors to change how shippers connect with… Read More