Convoy
Company

Last deal

$260M

Amount

Series E

Stage

21.04.2022

Date

3

all rounds

$1.2B

Total amount

date founded

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About Company
Convoy is an on-demand platform connecting truck drivers with companies that need freight services.

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founded date

01.01.2015

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series E

IPO status

Private

Description

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Convoy aims to optimize the matching process between truck drivers and companies based on criteria such as distance, price, and capacity. Through their application, truck drivers can find companies in need of their services. Convoy has raised a total capital of $265.5 million through two funding rounds, with their most recent round in September 2018 raising $185 million. Fortune 500 shippers like Anheuser-Busch, P&G, Niagara, and Unilever trust Convoy to lower costs, increase logistics efficiency, and achieve environmental sustainability targets.
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Grant Goodale
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Grant Goodale

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Dan Lewis
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Dan Lewis

Dan Lewis is the co-founder and CEO of Convoy. Before Convoy, Dan served as General Manager of New Shopping Experiences at Amazon, as well as Vice President of Product and Operations at Wavii (acquired by Google), and Group Product Manager at Microsoft. Dan started his career in technology and supply-chain consulting for Oliver Wyman, after studying cognitive science at Yale University.

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Grant Goodale

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Mark Okerstrom

President and COO

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Ranjitha Kurra

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Product manager ii

Kevin Hackshaw

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