News / Ezyhaul raises $16m to expand trucking app into Indonesia and the Philippines

Malaysia-based Ezyhaul has raised US$16m in a Series B fundraising round, one of the largest in a string of recent investments for digital trucking start-ups in South-east Asia.

Founded in 2016, Ezyhaul was one of the region’s first “Uber-like”, on-demand trucking apps to focus on first- rather than last-mile load matching, for both domestic and cross-border road freight.

“The key problem we’re solving is empty capacity on the roads and empty backhauls,” Raymond Gillon (pictured above, middle), Ezyhaul’s chief executive and co-founder, ...