Flexport is a freight forwarding and customs brokerage company based in San Francisco, California.
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Business
Flexport is the first international freight forwarder and customs brokerage built around an online dashboard. It has raised $204M to date, including $110M in its latest Series C round.
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 ". 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."
Flexport's CEO, Ryan Petersen, is a contributor to TechCrunch as well as the founder of Import Genius.
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Founding
Flexport was started by Ryan Petersen, a UC Berkeley and Columbia Business School graduate 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.
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External links
- Official website
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