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Creating a startup that competes with your former employer may be risky. For example, Apple once sued a former chip design executive who founded his own chip startup that was Dropped In 2023.
A recent case involving a new competitor formed by Logistics Unicorn Flexport and two former employees focuses on this risk.
Flexport is suing the pair that they complain that they have stolen thousands of their own rivals startups, freightmate AIs with its source code.
Both startups use technology to automatically automatically logistic and shipping processes.
Flexport says that it believes that Freitmeat CO Yingwe Zhao Jhao is now agreed to form a freight with CEO Brian Lakilda, downloaded more than 000,5 secrets, Flexport CaseWhich was filed in a California court last week.
Flexport claimed that Zhao had taken steps to hide tracks like using camouflage mode in his browser, which could copy a list of more than a thousand Flexport customers. The case alleges that Zhao also downloaded the flaxport source code from Github to his USB drive.
The freightmate acknowledged the occupation of some files from Flexport but said that the files were “unaware” and were not accessed or used by the freightme, according to the case.
Flexport refused to comment. Freightmate did not respond to any request for comment.
Flexport claimed that the recent growth by the freightmate “was virtually impossible” was stolen without information. It is suing for an unexpected damage and an order from the court to ban, which can be used to stop the freightmet from using the accused stolen data.
Flexport was based on San Francisco and its worth $ 8 billion in 2022 Round fundingThe This is recent Raised A 260 million rounds provided by Shopif in an undefined assessment in 2023.
Freightmate is nearest to Seattle of Seattle and raised a $ 5 million seed in January 2025 Led Washington State VC Farm Fuse Capital. Its pre-bezed round, whose amount was unnamed, Was headed By Winsaff Venture.
