{"id":10258,"date":"2018-05-15T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/world-famous-music-group-u2-logistics-startupi-convoy-investors-joined\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T20:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:03:56","slug":"world-famous-music-group-u2-logistics-startupi-convoy-investors-joined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/world-famous-music-group-u2-logistics-startupi-convoy-investors-joined\/","title":{"rendered":"World Famous Music Group U2 Joins Investors of Logistics Startup \u201cConvoy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tirport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dunyaca-Unlu-Muzik-Grubu-U2-Lojistik-Startup-i-Convoy-un-Yatirimcilarina-Katildi.webp\" alt=\"World Famous Music Group U2 Joins Investors of Logistics Startup &#x201C;Convoy&#x201D;\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>U2<\/strong> lead singer <strong>Bono<\/strong> and lead guitarist <strong>The Edge<\/strong> have invested in <strong>Convoy<\/strong> , one of the leading networks of tech-based small-scale transportation companies. Two Irish rock stars joined <strong>Amazon CEO<\/strong> <strong>Jeff Bezos<\/strong> and <strong>Microsoft<\/strong> &#8216;s co-founder <strong>Bill Gates,<\/strong> other well-known <strong>Convoy<\/strong> investors with this investment.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Convoy<\/strong> &#8216;s co-founder and CEO <strong>Dan Lewis,<\/strong> regarding the investment; \u201c <strong>Bono<\/strong> and <strong>The Edge<\/strong> know more about transportation than you might imagine. They have spent most of their business life traveling the world with <strong>U2<\/strong> and have learned a lot about the transportation sector while traveling from city to city. When they listened to <strong>Convoy<\/strong> , <strong>they liked the idea of &#8220;using technology to enable millions of truckers to expand their businesses and to reduce waste by ensuring that trucks are not empty.<\/strong> &#8221; .<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trucks travel more than 100 billion miles unladen in <strong>the United States<\/strong> each year. Acting with the mission of transporting the world with endless capacity and avoiding waste, <strong>Convoy<\/strong> has built a platform known as the largest technology-based network of small-scale logistics companies in the country. By optimizing this network, <strong>Convoy<\/strong> transports freight <strong>in a way that improves truck driver&#8217;s livelihoods and reduces 7% of all greenhouse gases<\/strong> from transportation.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is known that <strong>Bono and The Edge<\/strong> made this investment in 2017.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fleetowner.com\/technology\/article\/21702452\/u2s-bono-and-the-edge-invest-in-convoys-tech-network-of-smaller-trucking-companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AmericanTrucker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U2 lead singer Bono and lead guitarist The Edge have invested in Convoy , one of the leading networks of tech-based small-scale transportation companies. Two Irish rock stars joined Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft &#8216;s co-founder Bill Gates, other well-known Convoy investors with this investment. Convoy &#8216;s co-founder and CEO Dan Lewis, regarding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}