FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo faster
The thousands of small trucking companies that help move goods around the United States have a fairly old-school way of doing things, according to Paul Singer. He would know — he left his product manager job at Uber Freight to start a company called FleetWorks, which he believes will modernize things. Created during Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch, FleetWorks has been developing a marketplace that leverages artificial intelligence to make faster matches between carrier companies and goods that need to be moved, freeing up more time for workers on both sides of the transaction. Singer and co-founder Quang Tran, who worked on “moonshot projects” at Airbnb, think it’s a massive opportunity, and they’ve found some serious buy-in: FleetWorks claims to have brought more…
