News / Beacon will disrupt 'slow and inefficient' forwarding market with Bezos cash

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A new UK ‘digital’ forwarder, hoping to disrupt the industry’s “precarious” traditional methods, has received the ultimate accolade: investment from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

London-based Beacon, which styles itself as a “next-generation freight forwarding and supply chain finance company”, has raised $15m in series A funding, luring in not just Mr Bezos, but venture capital firm 8VC.

Beacon was founded in 2018 by two former Uber executives, Fraser Robinson, now CEO, and Dmitri Izmailov, COO. They were joined by former Amazon exec ...