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Why we invested in Singaporean supply chain visibility startup Portcast

By Llew Claasen|2021-09-10T13:17:20+02:00September 7th, 2021|

Newtown Partners portfolio company, Portcast, today announced raising $3.2m in Pre-Series A equity financing. Portcast is a Singapore-based SaaS platform that enables freight forwarders and shippers to improve profitability through real-time vessel and container tracking and dynamic demand forecasting. Portcast learns from public and proprietary datasets and provides accurate, frequent, and granular predictive analytics. [...]

Why we invested in European digital forwarder Shypple’s acquisition of Milestone

By Llew Claasen|2021-08-31T15:11:25+02:00August 10th, 2021|

Newtown Partners portfolio company, Shypple, today announced its acquisition of perishable goods freight forwarder, Milestone. Shypple is a digital freight forwarding service operating since 2016, now connecting more than 3,000 companies. The technology-driven Shypple platform provides organizations with end-to-end transparency and control over their entire supply chain, increasing efficiency, minimizing errors, and optimizing global [...]