Middle Eastern on-demand trucking platform TruKKer, which matches shippers and freight carriers, raised $100M from Investcorp and others ahead of a planned IPO (Matthew Martin/Bloomberg)

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Los Angeles and Taipei-based GoFreight, which provides software to freight forwarders for building a storefront and managing operations, raised a $23M Series A  —  Unicorn Flexport is revolutionizing the world of logistics, serving as a freight forwarder with software that enables customers to manage their shipments.

Jack Daleo / FreightWaves:
Loop, which uses AI to digitize shipping invoices and other logistics documents, raised $30M across a seed and a Series A from Founder’s Fund, Flexport, others  —  Company handled $1B in payment volume in its 1st year … Here’s a wild stat: Between 20% and 30% of all invoices today contain some form of exception or error.

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: US-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple faces US federal probes into whether it improperly financed and transferred tech to a Chinese startup  —  Government authorities are investigating whether the U.S. self-driving trucking company defrauded investors by financing and transferring technology to China-backed Hydron

Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Tel Aviv-based Trigo Vision, a cashierless checkout startup working with Tesco, Aldi, and others, raised $100M co-led by Temasek and 83North  —  An Israeli startup making technology for cashier-free payment at brick-and-mortar stores has raised $100 million.

Eli Blumenthal / CNET:
Small US carriers say Apple making eSIM the only option for iPhone 14 models in the US “democratizes connectivity” by letting users switch networks easily  —  Mint Mobile, Boost Mobile and US Mobile see room for growth as eSIM technology could make switching networks even easier.

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk:
Ownera, which wants to connect tokenized asset networks of the traditional finance, raised a $20M Series A from JP Morgan and others  —  Ownera aims to connect the tokenized securities of institutional investors.  —  Ownera, a startup building infrastructure to connect the tokenized asset networks …