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Forward Air
Left to right: Aircon Founder and CEO Chris Condon, Co-Founder and VP of Operations Irl Wakefield, and CTO Dennis Oleksyuk. [Photo: Underscore VC]
North Texas-Based Air Cargo Startup Aircon Raises $3.3M on Heels of $4.5M Funding in June
by David Seeley | Aug 25, 2023
The Flower Mound-headquartered logistics startup says it's "disrupting the $270 billion airfreight market" by consolidating air cargo shipments via AI and machine learning. The $3.3M seed round led by Underscore VC will allow Aircon to invest in "deeper partnerships across the air cargo and freight markets," the company said. See how else Aircon plans to spend the new funding.
by David Seeley |
Mar 17, 2023
Mountain View, California-based Kodiak Robotics—which announced an earlier partnership last May with U.S. Xpress to launch autonomous freight service between Dallas and Atlanta—today announced it has teamed up with Forward Air Corporation to roll freight between the same two cities.
Through the agreement, Kodiak and Forward say they're "operating autonomous freight service 24 hours per day, six days per week between Dallas and Atlanta, making three round trips weekly."
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