Flexport

Flexport is a global logistics and supply-chain company whose services combine freight forwarding, customs brokerage, fulfillment, and technology. Its stated aim is to make global trade easier. The company describes its platform as an operating system for global trade, connecting supply-chain activities from the factory floor to the customer door and giving customers visibility and control over shipments and inventory. Its freight services cover quoting, booking, and tracking ocean, air, and ground shipments. Other offerings include customs processes, shipment and purchase-order visibility, billing, supply-chain insights, and fulfillment. Flexport also provides value-added inventory preparation, such as labeling, kitting, bagging, and packaging for different sales channels, as well as parcel shipping for ecommerce businesses. Its parcel service offers shipping labels, carrier-network access, pickup, sorting, delivery, and tracking. Flexport presents AI as embedded in its logistics operations and software. The company says its systems can help anticipate delays, optimize routes, identify duty savings, and manage inventory risks. It describes serving customers across 135 countries and positions its offering as an integrated alternative to coordinating separate logistics providers and tools. Its services are directed at businesses moving, storing, preparing, or delivering goods; the website highlights connections with enterprise systems and ecommerce marketplaces.

Flexport’s history as reflected in the available company materials is primarily a story of broadening logistics services around a technology platform. The supplied sources do not establish a founding date, founders, headquarters, or dated corporate milestones, so those details are not specified here. The company’s current presentation centers on freight forwarding and software for managing global trade. Its platform supports quoting, booking, and tracking ocean, air, and ground shipments, alongside customs, billing, purchase-order visibility, shipment monitoring, and supply-chain insights. Flexport describes its operating model as combining technology with logistics execution, and says that its services can connect activity from factories through to final delivery. The service range also includes fulfillment and inventory-related operations. Flexport Prep is presented as a way to store, prepare, and ship inventory through one provider. Preparation services include labeling, kitting, bagging, wrapping, carton work, and channel-specific preparation for marketplaces and retailers. The company says preparation takes place at fulfillment centers where inventory is stored and shipped, linking preparation with onward fulfillment. Flexport Parcel extends the offering to ecommerce parcel shipping. Its described workflow includes creating labels through a merchant interface or API, pickup or delivery to a local sortation center, sorting across carrier networks, and end-to-end tracking. The company presents this as a way for businesses to use a single service rather than separately managing carrier contracts and pricing. In its current description, Flexport emphasizes AI and data as part of its logistics operations. It says these systems are used to anticipate delays, optimize routes, identify duty savings, and address inventory risks. Flexport reports that its operations serve 135 countries and frames its broader proposition as a single partner and platform for managing shipments, inventory, and supply chains. The supplied materials document these present-day services and positioning but do not provide a dated account of the company’s founding, ownership changes, or expansion history.

An integrated, technology-enabled logistics partner for global trade, bringing freight, customs, fulfillment, and supply-chain management together on one platform.

• Flexport Freight

  A service for quoting, booking, and tracking ocean, air, and ground shipments.

• Flexport Prep

  Inventory preparation services including labeling, kitting, bagging, wrapping, and channel-specific preparation.

• Flexport Parcel

  Ecommerce parcel shipping with label creation, pickup, sortation, carrier-network delivery, and tracking.

• 2022.02.01

  Reported2022.02.01

  Amitruck raises $4 million in seed funding[5]Amitruck获得400万美元种子融资prnewswire.com

  Amitruck announced that it secured $4 million in a seed funding round. The company said the funding would support expansion across Africa and hiring.

• 2021.12.06

  Reported2021.12.06

  Flexport launches Certified Partner Network[6]Flexport推出认证合作伙伴网络prnewswire.com

  Flexport launched the Flexport Certified Partner Network, an ecosystem of logistics service providers integrated through the Flexport Platform.

• 2021.12.04

  Voyager announces $8.4 million Series A investment[7]Voyager宣布获得840万美元A轮融资hellenicshippingnews.com

  Voyager Portal announced an $8.4 million Series A investment led by Phaze Ventures, with other new investors including ScOp Venture Capital, Waybury Capital and Flexport.

• 2021.11.04

  Breadfast announces $26 million Series A funding[8]Breadfast宣布完成2,600万美元A轮融资cairoscene.com

  Egyptian grocery delivery platform Breadfast announced a $26 million Series A funding round co-led by Vostok New Ventures and Endure Capital, with several other investors participating.

• 2021.09.24

  Reported2021.09.24

  Avenue announces $4 million seed funding[9]Avenue宣布获得400万美元种子轮融资techcrunch.com

  Avenue announced $4 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Flexport and individual investors.

• 2019.10.10

  Reported2019.10.10

  Flexport announces acquisition of Crux Systems[10]Flexport宣布收购Crux Systemsprnewswire.com

  Flexport announced its acquisition of Crux Systems. Flexport said the acquisition would accelerate automation of its shipment tracking capabilities and enable it to incorporate Crux Systems' tracking technology into its platform.

• 2019.09.25

  Reported2019.09.25

  Flexport releases version 2.0 of its platform[11]Flexport发布平台2.0版本benzinga.com

  Flexport announced the release of the second version of its platform, adding features including shipment-priority tagging, intelligent search, shipment notifications, and supplier information sharing.

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1. 1Freight Forwarding & Supply Chain Platform | Flexportflexport.com
2. 2About Flexport | Global Trade & Logistics Platform | Flexportflexport.com
3. 3Flexport Prep | Flexportflexport.com
4. 4Parcel | Flexportflexport.com
5. 5Amitruck获得400万美元种子融资prnewswire.com
6. 6Flexport推出认证合作伙伴网络prnewswire.com
7. 7Voyager宣布获得840万美元A轮融资hellenicshippingnews.com
8. 8Breadfast宣布完成2,600万美元A轮融资cairoscene.com
9. 9Avenue宣布获得400万美元种子轮融资techcrunch.com
10. 10Flexport宣布收购Crux Systemsprnewswire.com
11. 11Flexport发布平台2.0版本benzinga.com