"Built for the complexity of cross-border trade."
An AI-native platform that lets global manufacturers run their supply chains end-to-end - freight procurement, shipment tracking, execution and invoice reconciliation - on one cloud system.
Global trade still runs on spreadsheets, email threads and phone calls to freight forwarders. GoComet's founders looked at that reality and asked a plain question - why? Their answer became a platform now moving tens of billions of dollars of cargo across 35 countries.
GoComet is a cloud-based, AI-native logistics platform. In practice, that means it takes the sprawling, manual work of shipping goods across borders and puts it on a single system: ingesting purchase orders, running freight procurement, tracking containers in real time, coordinating documents, and auditing the invoices that arrive weeks later.
The company was founded in 2018 by four graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi - Gautam Prem Jain, Chitransh Sahai, Ayush Lodhi and Mehul Katiyar. From an early base split between Singapore and India, they built for a customer that legacy software had largely ignored: the enterprise shipper drowning in operational logistics.
Today the platform is used by more than 500 enterprise shippers, including several Fortune 500 companies, across pharmaceuticals, automotive, FMCG and heavy manufacturing. GoComet says businesses on the platform have moved cargo worth roughly $26 billion and that it has tracked more than two million containers.
The pitch is not glamour. It is arithmetic. Freight is one of the largest and least-scrutinized line items on a manufacturer's ledger, and GoComet's claim is that visibility and automation turn it into double-digit percentage savings - money that shows up directly on the freight bill.
Cross-border logistics is a chain of blind spots. Rates are negotiated by gut feel. Shipments vanish into weeks of silence. Invoices arrive with errors nobody has time to catch. Each gap quietly leaks money.
GoComet attacks those gaps as one connected problem rather than a shelf of point tools. Freight procurement becomes a dynamic reverse auction where carriers compete for the business automatically. Tracking becomes a live, multi-modal picture across ocean, air, road and parcel, with predictive ETAs. Invoice reconciliation becomes a three-way match that flags overbilling before it is paid.
The payoff is sharpest in a crisis. During the Red Sea shipping disruption, GoComet reports that customers using its visibility and rerouting data saved on the order of $2.5 million a week - the difference between watching a container disappear and steering around the storm.
Its customers are large B2B shippers in regulated, high-stakes supply chains. Kelmer reported roughly 70% efficiency gains after adopting the platform. Pharmaceutical manufacturer Mega WeCare cited freight cost reductions of 7-15%. The Basamh Group used GoComet to standardize best practices across departments and remove the "people dependency" that fragile manual processes create.
These are not abstract KPIs. In logistics, ROI is unusually legible: fewer detention charges, lower negotiated rates, fewer invoice errors, faster reaction to disruption.
GoComet's modules are designed to hand off to each other so there are no seams - and seams are where money and information leak.
Purchase-order ingestion and order management that attaches full context to every shipment before it moves.
Freight procurement automation using dynamic reverse auctions, RFQ management, spot bidding and contract lifecycle management to secure the lowest rate.
Real-time, multi-modal, multi-leg shipment tracking across ocean, air, road and parcel, with predictive ETAs.
End-to-end shipment execution and document management with multi-stakeholder collaboration.
Automated freight invoice reconciliation with three-way matching to catch billing errors before they are paid.
Port congestion tracker, smart sailing schedules and the GoComet Freight Index for benchmarking rates - used well beyond its own customers.
Under the hood: the newer Nova architecture orchestrates workflow, the data layer, service tickets, AI agents and custom UI across the suite - the technical basis for GoComet's 2024 repositioning as an "AI-native platform for global trade" that deploys in weeks rather than months.
▶ Watch product demos & interviews on GoComet's YouTubeThe visibility market is crowded with heavyweights - FourKites and project44 chief among them. GoComet's wedge is breadth for the mid-market and a proprietary port-congestion database, wrapped in a fast rollout.
Where incumbents lead on raw network depth and advanced prediction, GoComet competes on covering the entire workflow rather than one slice of it - and on being affordable and fast enough for firms the giants underserve. Reviewers repeatedly single out its port congestion intelligence as a differentiator. Alternatives in the category include FourKites, project44, Freightos, ShipsGo and Descartes.
GoComet is a B2B SaaS business. It sells subscription access to its platform to enterprise shippers and manufacturers, generally by module and usage. The value story is deliberately concrete - freight cost savings, efficiency gains, and audit-ready visibility - rather than seat counts.
That framing fits where GoComet sits in the market. It is not trying to out-scale the largest visibility networks head-on; it is capturing mid-market and enterprise shippers who need the full logistics workflow in one place, quickly, without a six-month implementation. Compliance credentials - SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR - matter here, because the customers are pharma and manufacturing firms with real regulatory exposure.
The company has raised roughly $9-10 million to date. An early 2019 round of about $2.2 million was followed by a $7 million Series A in February 2022 led by Rider Global and Atlas Ventures, with Jetty Ventures, Rebright Partners, Leo Capital and Krishna Capital participating. The team numbers around 260 people.
The broader context is a global supply-chain software market reshaped by pandemic-era disruption, when boards discovered how little they could see inside their own logistics. GoComet is a bet that the fix is not another dashboard but an operating layer - one that runs the process, not just reports on it.
Before GoComet, Chitransh Sahai co-founded Plat, which was acquired by Housing.com. In 2020 he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his work rethinking international freight. The four founders' shared engineering background shows in the product's bias toward automating away the parts of logistics that people dislike doing by hand.
Four IIT Delhi graduates launch GoComet to automate international freight procurement and tracking.
Raises about $2.2M from investors including Rebright Partners and Leo Capital.
Co-founder Chitransh Sahai is named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Round led by Rider Global and Atlas Ventures fuels global expansion from Singapore.
Grows past 500 enterprise shippers and achieves SOC 2 Type 2 compliance.
Rebuilds around the Nova architecture, embedding AI agents across procurement, tracking and invoicing.
It is a cloud-based, AI-native logistics platform that lets shippers run their supply chain end-to-end - freight procurement, shipment tracking, execution and invoice reconciliation - on one system.
It was founded in 2018 by four IIT Delhi graduates: Gautam Prem Jain, Chitransh Sahai, Ayush Lodhi and Mehul Katiyar.
GoComet is headquartered in Singapore, with significant operations in India.
Roughly $9-10M in total, including a $7M Series A in 2022 led by Rider Global and Atlas Ventures.
Its main alternatives are FourKites, project44, Freightos, ShipsGo and Descartes in the real-time transportation visibility and freight management space.