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Former Flexport staffers “brazenly” stole trade secrets and data, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the forwarder, and then they launched their own company, Freightmate.ai. 

Freightmate launched in June last year, having raised $650,000 in a pre-seed round ? it also announced a $5m seed round investment at the end of January this year. 

Co-founders Yingwei (Jason) Yu left Flexport in May, having joined in June 2021 from Amazon, while Bryan Lacaillade, left Flexport in April, where he was director of product ...

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  • Dwight Campbell

    March 18, 2025 at 9:23 pm

    “Flexport vigorously guards its commercially sensitive and proprietary information, including the trade secrets at issue”

    It sounds like “brazen” beats “vigorous”.

    I envision brazen as being almost out in the open.

    It sounds to me more like secretly, covertly, clandestinely, furtively, surreptitiously, discreetly, privately, quietly, privily, etc.