US-based KeepTruckin, which provides logbook technology for  truck drivers, secured $8m in series A capital yesterday from investors including Google Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of conglomerate Alphabet.

Venture capital firm Index Ventures also participated in the round, which followed a $2.3m seed round in 2013 backed by Google Ventures and various angel investors.

Founded in 2013, KeepTruckin has developed an electronic logbook app that enables truck drivers to record their hours on their smartphone instead of using paper files.…