Earlier this week, online trucking startup raised Series E funding of $67 million. With this funding, the startup's valuation is now over $1 billion.
The round was led by Tribe Capital, IFC Emerging Asia Fund, and VEF. Existing investors Wellington Management, Sands Capital, and International Finance Corporation also participated in this round of funding.
The company stated that it would use these funds to further penetrate the market and launch new service offerings for its customer base. It plans to invest heavily in product and data science capabilities, with the aim of enabling more efficient freight matching for the Indian trucking ecosystem.
The startup stated it currently drives over 90 percent of the market share of all online trucking activity.
BlackBuck digitises fleet operations for truckers and helps match trucks with relevant loads through its marketplace. The platform has close to 700,000+ truckers and over 1.2 million trucks on its platform, and sees over $15 million in monthly transactions.
The BlackBuck Team
If you'd like to be a part of BlackBuck's growth journey, these openings may be for you:
Business Development Manager
Location: Bengaluru
Experience required: 1-4 years
In this role, the individual is responsible for leading business development efforts and driving P&L for a set of large customers in a particular industry segment as well as leading the complete cycle of business acquisition, service delivery and business expansion for a set of key customer accounts, revenue pipeline management, and more.
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Data Scientist
Location: Bengaluru
Experience required: 3-7 years
The data scientist role at BlackBuck involves structuring available data to be able to better mine patterns and derive insights, and building solutions for a wide range of problems leveraging advanced Machine Learning algorithms (some problems include vehicle tracking, route planning and optimisation, marketplace demand shaping etc).
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Area Sales Manager - Fleet Management Platform
Location: Bengaluru
Experience required: 3-8 years
The area sales manager is responsible for leading the business development activities for services platform offerings in the specific region and state, mapping market potential with regard to existing or upcoming offerings, overseeing achievement of key business financial metrics for the region, leading the complete cycle of new customer acquisition, onboarding and service delivery, and more.
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Software Development Engineer II
Location: Bengaluru
Experience required: 3-6 years
In this role, the individual will actively drive discussions to improve product across engineering teams, understand well-defined business use cases and design solutions accordingly, take responsibility for definitions and end-to-end service design and implementations as well as design applications in a true service-oriented architecture, and more.
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UI/UX Developer and Designer
Location: Bengaluru
Experience required: 1-3 years
The UI/UX developer and designer will deliver rapid prototypes and mock-ups optimised for a wide range of devices and interfaces, predominantly mobile app, identify design problems and devise solutions, make strategic design and user interface decisions related to core, and new functions and features, rapidly test and iterate designs, and more.
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Edited by Teja Lele Desai
Link : https://yourstory.com/2021/07/jobs-roundup-blackbuck-online-trucking-startup
Author :- Rishabh Mansur ( )
July 24, 2021 at 07:00AM
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