Flexport

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
Website www.flexport.com

Flexport is a freight forwarding and customs brokerage company based in San Francisco, California.

Business

Flexport claims to be the first international freight forwarder and customs brokerage built around an online dashboard.[1] The company manages global logistics for businesses including Roominate, and Nextiva.[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.

Founding

Flexport was started by Ryan Petersen[1] in March 2013.

Investors

Flexport has received $28.8M in venture capital funding from notable investors including Founders Fund, Google Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Alexis Ohanian, Ram Shriram, Ashton Kutcher, Paul Buchheit Winklevoss twins, Scott Belsky, and Y Combinator.[1]

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. 1 2 3 Schubarth, Cromwell (August 7, 2015)."Peter Thiel leads $20M funding of Y Combinator grad Flexport". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
  2. "Flexport - Freight Forwarding and Customs Brokerage". Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  3. "Flexport Wants to Be Uber of the Oceans". Bloomberg.com. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  4. "Ryan Petersen ships Uber plan to the sea". timesofindia-economictimes. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  5. techcrunch.com/contributor/ryan-petersen/ TechCrunch contributor page
  6. "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.

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