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Meet the Nigerian Entrepreneur who Just Raised $20.5 Million to Help Truck Drivers Manage Their Business By Igor Bosilkovski

CloudTrucks cofounders (L to R): Jin Shieh (CTO) and George Ezenna CLOUDTRUCKS

CLOUDTRUCKS, A PLATFORM HELPING truck drivers find work and organize their business announced today that it has raised $20.5 million in a Series A round led by Caﬀeinated Capital with participation from Craft Ventures, Khosla Ventures, SciFi VC, Kindred Ventures, Abstract Ventures, and Better Tomorrow Ventures. 58

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Cofounder and CEO Tobenna Arodiogbu said that the problem they were trying to solve was basically helping truck drivers manage their business better. “We noticed that more and more drivers wanted to take control of their schedule and become entrepreneurs, and needed a lot more help with DAWN

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