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Vertex Growth leads X Mile’s US$21.4M Series C for non-desk workforce AI

Japan’s logistics yards, construction sites and factory floors are not usually where venture capital headlines begin. Yet they sit at the centre of one of the country’s most urgent economic questions: how to keep essential industries running as the workforce ages, labour becomes harder to find, and smaller operators struggle to modernise.

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