# Mathew Elenjickal

> Mathew (Matt) Elenjickal is the founder and CEO of FourKites, the Chicago-based supply chain visibility company he started in 2014 after realizing he could track a pair of Amazon shoes to the doorstep but not a $100,000 shipment of industrial equipment. A mechanical engineer from Kerala turned logistics-software operator, he spent seven years at i2 Technologies and Oracle before building FourKites into a platform that now tracks more than 3.2 million supply chain events a day for 1,600+ global brands. He has raised roughly $247 million across four rounds and is now pushing the company past dashboards into AI-native orchestration with products like the Intelligent Control Tower and Loft.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at FourKites
- **Organizations:** FourKites, Inc., Oracle Corporation, i2 Technologies / JDA Software Group
- **From:** Kerala, India
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** BS, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy (Anna University), Chennai, MS, Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Northwestern University, MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- **Known for:** Founded and scaled FourKites into a leading real-time supply chain visibility platform tracking 3.2M+ events daily for 1,600+ global brands., Raised approximately $247 million in venture funding across four rounds (through Series D)., First company to apply SaaS technology to GPS-enabled electronic logging devices for shippers.

## Career timeline

- **Pre-2007** — Earns BS in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai before moving to Chicago for graduate school.
- **2007** — Joins i2 Technologies after grad school; turns down a Seattle move to stay in Chicago. First project: optimizing delivery-truck routing for Anheuser-Busch.
- **2007-2014** — Spends about 7 years in enterprise supply chain software at i2/JDA and Oracle, implementing logistics systems at P&G, Nestle, Kraft, AB InBev, Tyco, Argos and Nokia across North America, Europe and Latin America.
- **2014** — Founds FourKites in Chicago with co-founder Arun Chandrasekaran, riding three converging waves: Amazon-driven tracking expectations, just-in-time retail demands, and federal ELD/GPS mandates on trucks.
- **2021-2022** — FourKites scales through pandemic-era supply chain disruption; raises a Series D, bringing total funding to roughly $247M.
- **2024** — Featured by McKinsey discussing digitization, digital simulations, nearshoring and generative AI amid Panama and Suez canal disruptions.
- **2025-01** — Launches the Intelligent Control Tower, pairing real-time visibility and continuously updated digital twins with a digital workforce of AI agents.
- **2026-02** — Launches Loft, an AI orchestration platform designed to work across any enterprise system, not just supply chain.

## Achievements

- Founded and scaled FourKites into a leading real-time supply chain visibility platform tracking 3.2M+ events daily for 1,600+ global brands.
- Raised approximately $247 million in venture funding across four rounds (through Series D).
- First company to apply SaaS technology to GPS-enabled electronic logging devices for shippers.
- Built one of Chicago's most prominent enterprise software companies from the ground up.
- Member of the Forbes Technology Council.
- Pivoted FourKites from a visibility dashboard company to an AI-native orchestration platform (Intelligent Control Tower, Loft).

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — FourKites launched Loft, an AI orchestration platform built to operate across any enterprise system rather than supply chain alone.
- **2025-01** — Unveiled the Intelligent Control Tower combining real-time visibility, digital twins, and a workforce of autonomous AI agents.
- **2024-07** — Interviewed by McKinsey on digitization, digital simulations, nearshoring and the promise of generative AI in logistics.

## Links

- Website: https://fourkites.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattelenjickal
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Matt_Elenjickal
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/FourKites

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