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 (Jack Daleo/FreightWaves)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on building a supply chain software business, managing large customers, scaling the company, the shipping industry, and more  —  The Flexport CEO’s tweetstorm changed how a major US port moves your stuff  —  Ryan Petersen is currently the CEO of Flexport.

Jack Daleo / FreightWaves:
Amazon unveils Amazon Warehousing & Distribution, letting sellers store their bulk inventory at Amazon’s fulfillment centers and access its distribution network  —  America’s most prolific marketplace is continuing its push to monopolize its sellers’ entire supply chains.

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Metalenz, which makes metasurface optics for 3D imaging and sensing, raised a $30M Series B led by Neotribe Ventures, and says it is shipping millions of orders  —  The cameras in our phones, laptops, and increasingly home robots and the like are about as small as they can get unless …

Paul Hill / Neowin:
Amazon announces the US launch of Veeqo, a shipping software that lets sellers connect their sales channels and access discounts on UPS, USPS, DHL, and FedEx  —  Amazon has announced that it’s launching a new version of Veeqo in the United States.  Veeqo is a multichannel shipping service …

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Stockholm-based Mavenoid, which offers human- and AI-enabled product support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised a $30M Series B  —  Mavenoid, a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies …

Stacy Elliott / Decrypt:
CoinGecko: normalized exchange volume for Crypto.com has dropped 91% over the past year, 90% for Huobi, 77% for FTX, 75% for Coinbase, and 57% for Binance  —  Bad ad or bad timing?  Either way, trading is down big.  —  Whichever version of the Latin proverb you choose …