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Convoy (company)
American trucking software company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Convoy was an American trucking software company co-founded by CEO Dan Lewis and CTO Grant Goodale.[1] The company was shut down in November 2023, while its assets and some of the employees were acquired by Flexport.[2]
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Former Amazon employees Dan Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015.[3]
On 25 July 2017, the company raised $62 million in Series B funding, led by Y Combinator's Continuity Fund. Other new investors included Cascade Investment CEO Bill Gates,[4] Mosaic Ventures, former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, and Barry Diller. This round of funding brought Convoy's total amount raised to $80 million.[5]
They joined existing Convoy investors Greylock Partners (the VC fund of LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman), Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos via Bezos Expeditions, former Starbucks President Howard Behar, Code.org founders Hadi and Ali Partovi, and the founders & CEOs of eBay, Instagram, KKR, and Dropbox, among others.[6]
Convoy was awarded GeekWire's 2017 Startup of the Year.[7]
In 2018, Convoy raised $185 million led by CapitalG at a $1 billion valuation.[8]
In 2019, Convoy raised $400 million, led by Generation Investment Management and T. Rowe Price at a $2.75 billion valuation.[9]
In June 2023, Convoy's co-founder and chief experience officer, Goodale, left the company.[3]
On 18th October 2023, Convoy canceled all shipments amidst rumors of an upcoming transition.[10]
On 19th October 2023, Convoy ceased operations and laid off remaining staff. Remaining staff were given no severance and were told their stock options were worthless.[11] In a memo sent that day to employees, Lewis points to "a massive freight recession and a contraction in the capital markets" as major factors resulting in the company's failure.[12] On 1st November 2023, supply chain company Flexport acquired Convoy's assets for $16M and retained a small group of about fifty employees.[13][14] Convoy's co-founder and CEO, Lewis, joined Flexport as part of the deal.[2] Dan Lewis subsequently left Flexport in late 2024 and joined Microsoft in early 2025[15].
Flexport relaunched the Convoy Platform in February 2024, focusing on providing software services to third party trucking brokers.[16] This was in contrast to the pre-Flexport business model wherein Convoy was primarily a trucking broker working directly with shippers.
In July 2025, DAT Solutions purchased the Convoy Platform from Flexport for $250M and hired most of the remaining Convoy Platform employees.[14]
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