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Freightos Acquires Shipsta, Expanding Comprehensive Digital Freight Procurement Solution

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Freightos (NASDAQ: CRGO) today announced the acquisition of Shipsta, a leading freight-tender procurement platform used by dozens of Global 1000 enterprises to procure freight at scale from leading freight forwarders and carriers. This transaction expands Freightos’ existing industry-leading spot pricing, quoting, and booking capabilities by adding tender procurement, thereby advancing Freightos’ vision of comprehensive freight digitization and meaningfully increasing its total addressable market, both in ocean and contract procurement. This acquisition accelerates Freightos’ growth, supports its financial goals of achieving positive Adjusted EBITDA by the end of 2026 with available funds, while strengthening its market position as a technology leader in the global freight industry.
Supply chain efficiency and agility have become critical in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing Red Sea crisis. The combined Freightos-Shipsta offering will provide the most comprehensive modern platform for selling and procuring freight services, connecting carriers, freight forwarders, and importers/exporters on one unified digital booking platform.
Shipsta, headquartered in Luxembourg, supports the freight procurement of global companies by streamlining the tender management and procurement processes across air, ocean, road, and rail, enabling companies to easily solicit tenders from their freight forwarders and carriers. Shipsta technology serves dozens of multinational organizations across industries like retail, industrial, pharma, automotive and others, and counts market-leading customers in all of them, including Puma, Thyssenkrupp and Rockwool.
“The acquisition of Shipsta is a strategic milestone for Freightos, enabling us to advance our vision of digitizing the freight industry end-to-end,” said Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos. “Shipsta’s platform, outstanding customer roster, and experienced team will add significant value to our offering by introducing tender management and contract procurement – a segment representing an estimated 50-70% of the total air and ocean freight market. The acquisition addresses the needs of our importers, exporters, forwarders and carriers that seek comprehensive solutions beyond spot freight bookings and sales and we think customers will love the joint offering. We’re also excited to welcome Shipsta’s outstanding talent into the Freightos team.”
This acquisition joins Shipsta’s product capabilities, customer base and team with the Freightos ecosystem, enhancing the overall Freightos offering and driving revenue growth with immediate cross-sell opportunities.
Shipsta’s team, led by Christian Wilhelm and Stefan Maratzki, will continue to lead Shipsta’s product development, innovation, customer success, and go-to-market strategy. As part of the acquisition, Shipsta’s current team will join Freightos, and parts of Shipsta’s roadmap will be accelerated to further enhance tender management, provide improved operational integrations and expand on market intelligence capabilities.
“Joining forces with Freightos marks a thrilling new chapter for Shipsta,” said Shipsta MD and founder Christian Wilhelm. “Shipsta and Freightos share a mission to bring global freight online. Now, our customers will continue to benefit from the outstanding Shipsta product and team, with service and efficiency further enhanced, while driving new efficiencies to the thousands of forwarders that leverage Freightos and WebCargo by Freightos. Together, we expect to accelerate market penetration, drive innovation, and set new industry standards in freight.”
The acquisition will be financed through a combination of cash and equity. The consideration includes a cash payment of approximately €4.5m from existing reserves and the issuance of approximately 640 thousand Freightos shares to a key Shipsta shareholder, subject to adjustment for working capital, and customary holdbacks. This investment reinforces the Company’s confidence in having adequate cash on hand to achieve positive cash flow. Shipsta is expected to contribute approximately $800 thousand to Freightos’ revenue during the last four months of 2024, with a moderate negative impact on Adjusted EBITDA. Revenue contribution in 2025 is expected to be between $4-5 million.
“We are pleased to meaningfully enhance our offering on favorable deal terms,” said Ran Shalev, Freightos CFO. “This acquisition provides us with immediate cross-selling opportunities for incremental growth while further aiding our path to positive Adjusted EBITDA by the end of 2026 without requiring additional capital. This acquisition strengthens our market position and positions us well for future growth and success.”
 
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This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as “estimate,” “plan,” “project,” “forecast,” “intend,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “seek,” “target” or other similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. These statements, which include the financial outlook of Freightos, are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified in this press release, and on the current expectations of Freightos, and are not predictions of actual performance. These forward-looking statements are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of Freightos. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including Freightos’ ability to successfully integrate the Shipsta business without disruption to its business; the ongoing military conflict in the Middle East; Freightos’ ability to effectively execute its previously announced operational efficiency and cost reduction plan without undue disruption to its business; competition and the ability of Freightos to build and maintain relationships with carriers, freight forwarders and importers/exporters and retain its management and key employees; changes in applicable laws or regulations; any downturn or volatility in economic conditions whether related to inflation, armed conflict or otherwise; changes in the competitive environment affecting Freightos or its users, including Freightos’ ability to introduce new products or technologies; risks to Freightos’ ability to protect its intellectual property and avoid infringement by others, or claims of infringement against Freightos; and those additional factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in Freightos’ annual report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on March 21, 2024, and any other risk factors Freightos includes in any subsequent reports of foreign private issuer on Form 6-K furnished to the SEC. If any of these risks materializes or our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. There may be additional risks of which Freightos is not aware presently or that Freightos currently believes are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements reflect Freightos’ expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this press release. Freightos anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause Freightos’ assessments to change. However, while Freightos may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, Freightos specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Freightos’ assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements.
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CHIPOTLE DEBUTS AUTOCADO AND THE AUGMENTED MAKELINE BY HYPHEN IN RESTAURANTS

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Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) announced today Autocado, its avocado processing cobotic prototype developed in partnership with Vebu that cuts, cores, and peels avocados before they are hand mashed to create the restaurant’s signature guacamole, and the Augmented Makeline, a cobotic makeline built in collaboration with Hyphen, are being tested in Chipotle restaurants for the first time. Autocado is currently operating at Chipotle’s Huntington Beach, Calif. location at 20972 Magnolia St and the Augmented Makeline is being utilized at the company’s Corona del Mar (CDM), Calif. location at 3050 East Coast Hwy.
Photos and B-roll video of Autocado and the Augmented Makeline can be accessed here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/kjcz5fjv6xun2l7z8zygm/ANVzEjOguvkF172YcyMhlp0?rlkey=00jmgufel1ku0fzftwckse5i0&st=dkaus6e0&dl=0.
“These cobotic devices could help us build a stronger operational engine that delivers a great experience for our team members and our guests while maintaining Chipotle’s high culinary standards,” said Curt Garner, Chief Customer and Technology Officer. “Optimizing our use of these systems and incorporating crew and customer feedback are the next steps in the stage-gate process before determining their broader pilot plans.”
Autocado Continues Through the Stage-Gate Process  Vebu and Chipotle worked closely with Certified Training Managers from Chipotle’s restaurants to analyze the company’s preparation process and identify tasks that are time consuming and less favorable among crew members. In the Huntington Beach restaurant where Autocado is operating, crew members can focus on assisting with other food prep items and delivering exceptional hospitality to guests while Autocado cuts avocados, removes their skin, and separates their fruit through an automated process. On average, it takes Autocado approximately 26 seconds to fully flesh out the fruit inside an avocado. In Chipotle locations across the U.S., Canada, and Europe this year, the company is expected to use approximately 5.18 million cases of avocados, equivalent to 129.5 million pounds of fruit.
The current iteration of Autocado features an updated design and size agnostic avocado processing abilities, meaning that the machine recognizes variability in the fruit and automatically adjusts itself to accommodate the size of the avocados being loaded.
Enhancing Digital Ordering with the Augmented MakelineChipotle’s Augmented Makeline, created in collaboration with Hyphen, uses automated technology to build bowls and salads while Chipotle employees operate the top makeline to make burritos, tacos, quesadillas, and kid’s meals. Approximately 65% of all Chipotle digital orders are bowls or salads, so the Augmented Makeline can improve employee efficiency and digital order accuracy, ensuring a more consistent experience for digital guests.
Cultivate NextChipotle has invested in Vebu and Hyphen through its $100 million Cultivate Next venture fund. Introduced in 2022, Cultivate Next makes early-stage investments into strategically aligned companies that further Chipotle’s mission to Cultivate a Better World and help accelerate the company’s aggressive longer term growth plans to operate 7,000 restaurants in North America.
Companies interested in collaborating with Chipotle through the Cultivate Next venture fund can apply by emailing [email protected].
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Game-Changing Lidar OT128 from Hesai Unveiled at IAA Transportation, Accelerating Autonomous Vehicles’ Commercial Deployment

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Hesai Technology (Nasdaq: HSAI), the global leader in lidar technology, is launching its powerful new lidar solution OT128 at Europe’s biggest commercial vehicle trade fair IAA Transportation in Hannover (booth location: Hall 12, #C71). Hesai’s OT128 is the most mature 360° long-range lidar in the market and is driving the rapid development of autonomous vehicles’ all-around sensing capabilities.
Hesai’s OT128 achieves a detection range of up to 200 meters at 10% reflectivity, meeting the demanding requirements of level 4 (L4) autonomous driving and other high-precision applications. With a finest angular resolution of 0.1° x 0.125° and data points exceeding 3.45 million points per second, the OT128 captures environmental details with levels of clarity that far exceed the automotive industry’s requirements.
With 66% fewer parts than the previous-generation product, Hesai’s OT128 has a significantly less complex architecture. This means that the unit can be mass-produced on automated manufacturing lines, reducing the production time by over 95% compared to the previous generation.
Hesai ensures safety and reliability with its ASIL B-certified products, including the Pandar128, QT128, and AT128, supported by a rigorous internal safety process. Leveraging this experience, the OT128 also meets ISO 26262 ASIL B functional safety standards and complies with ISO 21434 cybersecurity requirements.
OT128 has passed over 50 automotive-grade reliability tests. It boasts a design life exceeding 30,000 hours – 3 times the industry average – ensuring that the OT128 maintains exceptional performance even after prolonged operation in high temperatures.
Thanks to its excellent performance, Hesai’s OT128 has already been tested by pre-launch customers in Europe, including L4 autonomous driving, port logistics automation, industrial robotics, heavy machinery and smart factories. Companies such as Embotech and EasyMile have reported exceptional real-world performance, highlighting the OT128’s potential to transform the autonomous vehicle and industrial automation sectors.
According to the Lidar for Automotive 2024 report by Yole Intelligence, an international market research firm, Hesai ranks No. 1 in the robotic car lidar market globally, with a 74% market share. Among the top 10 autonomous driving companies in the world, 9 use Hesai’s 360° high-performance lidar.
Hesai has established a strong presence in Europe – with a sales and application engineering office in Stuttgart – as well as the US and Asia, with customers located in over 40 countries.
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Monitoring Tools Market to Reach $140.4 Billion, Globally, by 2032 at 20.1% CAGR: Allied Market Research

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Allied Market Research published a report, titled, “Monitoring Tools Market by Component (Software and Services), Deployment (Cloud and On-Premises), Type (Infrastructure Monitoring Tools, Application Performance Monitoring Tools, Security Monitoring Tools and End-user Experience Monitoring Tools), and Vertical (BFSI, Retail & E-commerce, Healthcare, IT & Telecom, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing and Others): Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2024-2032″. According to the report, the monitoring tools market was valued at $26.5 billion in 2023, and is estimated to reach $140.4 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 20.1% from 2024 to 2032.
Prime determinants of growth 
The global monitoring tools market is experiencing growth due to rising demand for proactive monitoring, increased focus on cybersecurity and regulatory compliance requirements. However, high implementation costs hinder market growth to some extent. Moreover,
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Forecast Period 

2024–2032

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Base Year 

2023

Market Size in 2023 

$26.5 Billion 

Market Size in 2032 

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$140.4 Billion 

CAGR 

20.1 %

No. of Pages in Report 

200

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Segments Covered 

Component, Deployment, Type, Vertical and Region. 

Drivers 

Rising Demand for Proactive Monitoring 

Increased Focus on Cybersecurity 

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Regulatory Compliance Requirement 

Opportunities 

Advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 

Growing Demand for Unified Monitoring Solutions 

Restraint 

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High Implementation Costs 

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Segment Highlights
The services segment held the highest market share in 2023 
By component, the services segment is projected to attain the fastest growing segment from 2023 to 2032, owing to increase in demand for expert support, customization, and managed services to optimize monitoring tool deployment and usage, which is driving the segment growth.
The cloud segment held the highest market share in 2023 
By deployment, the cloud segment is projected to attain the fastest growing segment from 2023 to 2032, owing to the surge in adoption of cloud computing, and the need for scalable and flexible monitoring solutions. The benefits of cloud-based deployment such as ease of access and reduced infrastructure costs are driving the segment growth.
The infrastructure monitoring tools segment held the highest market share in 2023 
By type, the infrastructure monitoring tools segment is projected to attain the fastest growing segment from 2023 to 2032, owing to the rising complexity of IT environments and the need for optimized performance and reliability, which is driving the segment growth.
The BFSI segment held the highest market share in 2023 
By vertical, the BFSI segment are projected to attain the fastest growing segment from 2023 to 2032, owing to the increase in regulatory compliance requirements, the need for robust cybersecurity measures, and the demand for real-time monitoring to ensure operational efficiency and security, which is driving the segment growth.
North America led the market share in 2023 
North America led the market share in 2023, owing to the advanced technological infrastructure, high adoption of cloud services, and significant investment in cybersecurity. In addition, the presence of major market players and the increase in demand for sophisticated monitoring solutions across various industries contribute to North America’s dominance in the monitoring tools market.
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Major Industry Players: – 

Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Dynatrace, Inc.
Google LLC
IBM Corporation
Microsoft
NETSCOUT Systems, Inc.
New Relic, Inc.
Riverbed Technology LLC
Splunk Inc

The report provides a detailed analysis of these key players in the global monitoring tools market. These players have adopted different strategies such as new product launches, collaborations, expansion, joint ventures, agreements, acquisition and others to increase their market share and maintain dominant shares in different regions. The report is valuable in highlighting business performance, operating segments, product portfolio, and strategic moves of market players to showcase the competitive scenario.
Recent Development: 

In February 2023, Tech Mahindra, a provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, announced the launch of SANDSTORM. This groundbreaking remote real-time network monitoring and smart device assurance service is designed for telcos and enterprises. SANDSTORM enables service providers to remotely measure customer experiences across various devices, including smartphones, tablets, VR headsets, smart TVs, and connected cars.
In August 2021, Netscout Systems, Inc. launched NETSCOUT Smart Edge Monitoring, which is providing IT teams with comprehensive visibility and insights to ensure optimal end-user experiences across any network or application, regardless of employees’ work locations.

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