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Everything Nexcade puts on the record, newest first: announcements, coverage in the trade and technology press, podcast conversations, highlights from LinkedIn, and our own articles. Evergreen guides to the quoting stack sit at the end of the page. For press enquiries, write to founders@nexcade.ai.

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Plain-language guides to the tools forwarders use to quote, and to the economics behind them. Each guide is dated, sourced, and reviewed when the market moves.

Updated 16 July 2026

A field guide to freight quoting software in 2026

The five main categories of freight quoting software, what each one does, and how forwarders can combine rate platforms, rate management systems, TMS modules, workflow agents and in-house tools.

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8 July 2026Announcement

Nexcade raises a $6M Seed round led by Project A

Nexcade has raised a $6 million Seed round led by Project A Ventures, with Connect Ventures, MMC Ventures and Entropy Industrial Capital joining, to build AI agents for freight forwarders.

Nexcade
22 June 2026Announcement

Nexcade and Freightify announce a partnership

Nexcade and Freightify announced a partnership to strengthen the integration between trusted rate data and the agents that execute quoting, rates, and pricing workflows.

Nexcade
10 June 2026LinkedIn

What fixing your data for AI actually means

Founder Dan Bailey on cleanliness, completeness, and accuracy as three separate bars, and why the automation objective should set the bar for each.

Dan Bailey
28 May 2026Article

Build or buy AI quoting: what the giants show

The public evidence on in-house AI quoting programmes at three giants, what those builds actually required, and a practical frame for forwarders weighing build against buy.

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