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, COO
Revenue Increase $ 224.7 million(2017)
Website www.flexport.com

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

Business

Flexport is the first international freight forwarder and customs brokerage built around an online dashboard.[1] It has raised $204M to date, including $110M in its latest Series C round. [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.[3]

Founding

Flexport was started by Ryan Petersen, a UC Berkeley and Columbia Business School graduate[1] 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.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Schubarth, Cromwell (August 7, 2015)."Peter Thiel leads $20M funding of Y Combinator grad Flexport". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
  2. ↑ "Freight Startup Flexport Raises $110 Million And Turns Down A $1 Billion Valuation". Flexport. 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  3. 1 2 "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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