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34 Pakistan’s Trukkr raises $600,000 seed for its trucking marketplace

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Zubair Naeem Paracha @ MENAbytes 1 place · 07/05/2021 06:39 EDT

Pakistan’s Trukkr raises $600,000 seed for its trucking marketplace

Karachi-headquartered trucking marketplace Trukkr has raised $600,000 in seed funding led by Peter Findley, it told MENAbytes today. The investor is a General Partner at Anchorless, a New York-headquartered VC focused on Bangladesh. The deal also included participation from Pakistan-focused investor Kinnow VC, Kargo Technologies’ founder and CEO Tiger Fang, and an executive from Cue ...

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