The Technology team advised Augment on raising $25 million in seed funding. The round was led by 8VC. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the development of its productivity platform for logistics and expand its engineering and customer success teams.
Augment is an AI-driven logistics platform featuring Augie, an AI teammate for the freight industry designed to collaborate and execute complex logistics tasks. It calls, emails, logs into systems, escalates issues, and manages workflows to streamline truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), expedited, and drayage shipments. By automating execution, reducing errors, and increasing efficiency, Augie helps shippers, brokers, and carriers unlock greater profitability and operational scalability.
The Goodwin team was led by John Casnocha, Ria King, Ari Ghavami, and Hilarie Bellis-Sexton, Ty Bennett, and Ari Kazanjian.
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