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E-commerce logistics companies Stored has raised a $250 million round at a $3 billion valuation it announced on Tuesday.

Now, this doubled its valuation from a year ago round.

The new funding was led by Strike Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins,

Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton, Bailey Gifford, G-squared, and Bond. Stored was founded in

2015 by then college student CEO, Sean Henry, and CTO Jacob Bordrow, while they were still at

Georgia Tech. It was soaring along, run by the two young founders, through the frothy pandemic era

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