Media Coverage

Christopher Calnan Staff Writer- Austin Business Journal Online movers marketplace uShip Inc. has received an $18 million Series C round of funding. The Austin-based company, which collected the capital from California-based Kleiner Perkins, has received $28 million in venture capital since launching. It plans to use the money for increasing a focus on commercial customers… Read More

By Lori Hawkins American-Statesman Staff A prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm is making an $18 million bet on uShip Inc., a fast-growing Austin company that hosts online auctions for shipping services. The investment by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers will allow uShip to expand its global operations and accelerate product development, said Matt Chasen,… Read More

(TECHCRUNCH) uShip, a marketplace for freight, household goods and vehicle shipping, has raised $18 million in Series C funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). This financing brings the total capital raised by uShip to $28 million. Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures invested in earlier rounds. uShip has been trying to disrupt the shipping… Read More

uShip Inc. founder and CEO Matt Chasen condensed 10 years of entrepreneurial experience into four key lessons during the Austin Young Chamber of Commerce’s December luncheon. Chasen — named a 2012 Best CEO in Austin, a 2011 Austin Under 40 winner and a finalist during Ernst & Young’s 2010 Entrepreneur Of The Year contest —offered the four nuggets… Read More

When it comes to technology, truckers are going mobile, with 70 percent of drivers surveyed by uShip.com saying they use mobile phones for business. The number of truckers using apps jumped to 43 percent, a 16 percent increase from last year’s annual mobile usage survey, according to uShip.com. More than half of the truck drivers… Read More

The folks at uShip sent along some early results of a survey conducted recently relative to the use of cellular technology by transporters utilizing the online marketplace. One of the most interesting results to me was the high percentage of operators noting a growing prevalence of smartphone use for mapping/GPS-type function over traditional GPS units…. Read More

Hiring the best IT professionals on your team is only part of your job as an IT manager. Keeping your star employees can prove to be an even more difficult task. By Rich Hein September 27, 2012 Employee turnover is a costly affair for employers. The time spent looking for, hiring and training new employees… Read More

The founder and CEO of Austin-based uShip Inc. had no problem keeping the Face 2 Face crowd entertained at The Long Center this morning as he spoke about the company and one of its most popular ventures, reality television show “Shipping Wars.” Though uShip plays the starring role, it has “absolutely no editorial control over… Read More

By Stephen Bennett, Contributing Writer This story appears in the August/September issue of iTECH, published in the Aug. 27 print edition of Transport Topics Developers of Web-based, transactional freight exchanges believe their services can shepherd in an era of one-stop shopping for moving cargo, where deals are made without so much as a phone call…. Read More

Truck drivers who read the articles about Shipping Wars on CDL Life have some pretty specific opinions about UShip – which is touted as a kind of Ebay for hauling companies who wish to bid for jobs in online auction format. Some appreciate the system, while many other truck drivers feel the company strips honest… Read More