Great Hill Buys Into Freightquote.com

Great Hill Partners has agreed to acquire a minority interest in Freightquote.com Inc., a Lenexa, Kan.-based provider of freight transportation information, according to VentureWire and a Federal Trade Commission report. Freightquote has raised around $45 million in VC funding since its 1998 inception, from firms like Menlo Ventures and Morgan Stanley Venture Partners. It also recently had a lawsuit dismissed with prejudice, which it had filed against the Department of Homeland Security.