Friday, February 1, 2019

NEXT, Flush With $97M In New Funding, Hires First CFO

Los Angeles-based shipping and logistics marketplace developer NEXT, fresh off a big, $97M funding round announced last week, said that it has hired Peter Janda as the company's first ever Chief Financial Officer. Janda was most recently CFO at Chef'd, and also has served at such companies as Ingram Micro, Ernst & Young, among other companies. NEXT, which is led by Lydia Yan, raised its latest round of funding from Brookfield Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and GLP. The startup has now raised $125M in total.

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