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Vorto wants to make waiting bad business
A truck can be expensive even when it goes nowhere. Vorto connects buying, dispatch, and payment to recover the hours that supply chains quietly throw away.
The Dispatcher Who Never Goes Home
Cargofy began with an app that found loads for one-truck businesses. Then war, better language models and a pile of rejected phone calls turned it into something stranger: a logistics workforce that does not clock out.
Founder-Sized Ownership in Year One, Pallet's Agent PM Team
Pallet’s Agent PMs don’t wait years for a real mandate. They take charge of marquee accounts, live AI deployments, and new markets—often before the first month is over.
Hemut
Hemut is an AI-native operating system for trucking companies. It replaces the fragmented, legacy back-office software that carriers and brokers rely on with a single platform that automates dispatch, load booking, quoting, tracking, accounting, and inbound/outbound phone calls using AI agents. Founded in 2024 and part of Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch, Hemut targets mid-sized fleets in the roughly $875B American trucking market.
GoComet
GoComet is an AI-native logistics platform that helps global manufacturers and shippers run their end-to-end supply chains - from freight procurement and shipment tracking to invoice reconciliation - on a single cloud-based system. Founded in 2018 by four IIT Delhi graduates and headquartered in Singapore, it is used by 500+ enterprise shippers, including several Fortune 500 companies, across 35+ countries to cut freight costs, gain real-time visibility, and automate manual logistics workflows.
Return Helper
Return Helper is a Singapore-based, AI-driven cross-border ecommerce returns and reverse-logistics platform. It pairs branded return-portal software with a network of 20+ overseas warehouses that receive, inspect and process returned goods locally, then recover value through recommerce - refurbishing, grading, reselling and recycling. Founded by Roy Wan and Paco Wong, the company helps online sellers on Amazon, Shopify, eBay and TikTok turn returns from a cost center into a source of recovered revenue.
XSQUARE Technologies
XSQUARE Technologies is a Singapore-based intralogistics company that builds autonomous forklifts and the Xymphony warehouse orchestration software to automate warehouses without requiring reconfiguration. Founded in 2019 and backed by Goldbell Group's four decades of material-handling expertise, XSQUARE pairs its own line of AGVs with an AI-driven control layer, offered largely through a Robots-as-a-Service subscription model. Its clients include Coca-Cola, GSK and Katoen Natie, and it raised S$10.5 million in Series A funding in May 2024 led by Wavemaker Partners.
AfterShip
AfterShip is a post-purchase software company that helps online retailers manage everything that happens after the buy button. Its platform tracks shipments across more than 1,100 carriers, powers branded tracking pages and delivery notifications, automates returns and exchanges, predicts estimated delivery dates, and syncs catalogs to marketplaces like TikTok Shop. Founded in Hong Kong in 2011 and now headquartered in Singapore, AfterShip serves tens of thousands of merchants, including brands such as Microsoft, Dell, HP, and marketplaces like eBay and Etsy, and has processed billions of tracked shipments.
Deepak Chhugani
Deepak Chhugani is the founder and CEO of Nuvocargo, an AI-powered platform for cross-border truckload freight between the United States and Mexico. Born in Kenya to Indian parents and raised in Ecuador, he worked on Latin America M&A deals at Bank of America Merrill Lynch before starting Nuvocargo in 2019. The company has raised more than $75 million from investors including Y Combinator, Tiger Global, QED, and NFX, and combines freight forwarding, customs brokerage, cargo insurance, and financing on one platform. Chhugani was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for enterprise technology in 2023 and is an Endeavor Entrepreneur.
Nuvocargo
Nuvocargo is a digital-first freight forwarder and licensed U.S. customs broker built to simplify the $40B+ over-the-road freight market between the United States and Mexico. Through a single platform, it combines trucking, customs clearance, cargo insurance, carrier payments and trade finance, and is increasingly layering AI automation across the load lifecycle. Founded in 2019 by Deepak Chhugani, the New York- and Mexico City-based company has raised over $74M and rode the nearshoring wave to serve roughly 500 shippers including Kimberly-Clark, Nestle and Grupo Bimbo.
The Brokers Who Taught a Machine to Move Freight
Pallet builds an AI logistics workforce that automates the manual back-office work at the heart of freight brokerages. Its AI agents handle load entry, appointment scheduling, driver document processing, proof-of-delivery, and invoice auditing directly inside existing systems like McLeod and DAT, keeping humans in the loop for oversight and edge cases. The company says brokerages process loads up to 10x faster, cut processing errors by 30%, and save 50% on back-office labor. Founded in 2022 by former Retool engineers Sushanth Raman and Andrew Spencer, Pallet has raised $50 million to date, including a $27M Series B led by General Catalyst.
Nevoya
Nevoya is a San Francisco- and Los Angeles-based, fully electric freight carrier that pairs a fleet of zero-emissions trucks with a purpose-built, AI-orchestrated Transportation Management System. Rather than retrofitting legacy diesel software, Nevoya builds route optimization, load balancing, dynamic battery management, and charging schedules from the ground up for electric operations - and says the result already matches or beats diesel on cost and reliability in California. In its first six months it onboarded Fortune 500 shippers and leading 3PLs, and in July 2025 it raised a $9.3M seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital to expand across California and into Texas.
Gaurav Khandelwal
Gaurav Khandelwal is the founder and CEO of Velostics, a Houston-based logistics SaaS company that automates appointment scheduling, dock and yard management, and the gate in/out process for shippers and carriers. The son of a tea blender from India, he came to the US for college at tiny Goshen College in Indiana, built the behavioral-science software studio ChaiOne into a multi-million-dollar firm starting in 2009, then turned his attention to the friction-filled 'middle mile' of commerce. He launched Velostics to digitize the antiquated handoffs between warehouses and trucks, raised a $2.5M seed round led by Flyover Capital, and is a fixture of Houston's startup ecosystem as the founder of START co-working space and a Houston Exponential board member.
Sami Khan
Sami Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Nevoya, an all-electric, AI-orchestrated freight carrier building a zero-emissions trucking network from the ground up. A Cambridge-trained physicist who moved through private equity, Accenture consulting, and four years inside McLaren's applied-technology arm, Khan launched Nevoya in 2022 to prove that electric trucks can beat diesel on cost, reliability, and emissions. The company raised a $9.3M seed led by Lowercarbon Capital, runs Freightliner eCascadias for Fortune 500 shippers and 3PLs, and is built around a proprietary AI-powered Transportation Management System designed specifically for the quirks of running EVs at freight scale.
Bill Catania
Bill Catania is the founder and CEO of OneRail, an Orlando-based last-mile delivery orchestration platform he started in 2018 with his wife Lisa at their kitchen table after a broken refrigerator exposed the gaps in same-day delivery. A three-time founder whose first company began in his Cornell dorm, Catania built OneRail into a venture-backed logistics technology company connecting enterprise retailers to a network of millions of drivers, raising a $42M Series C in late 2024 and earning recognition from Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Gartner and FreightWaves.
OneRail
OneRail is an Orlando-based logistics technology company whose AI-native OmniPoint platform orchestrates last-mile delivery for enterprise retailers, wholesalers and distributors. By connecting shippers to a network of 12 million-plus drivers and 1,000-plus carriers, OneRail lets brands offer same-day and scheduled delivery, optimize routes and modes in real time, and resolve delivery exceptions - reaching a 98.6% on-time rate while cutting delivery costs by up to 30%.
Renaissant
Renaissant is a Milwaukee-based logistics software company that builds a Yard Execution System (YES) - an integrated platform that orchestrates the movement of trucks, drivers and freight across the gate, dock and yard. By connecting people, systems and devices into a single load record, Renaissant automates scheduling, driver validation, gate access, yard moves and digital paperwork while also handling environmental compliance like California's WAIRE/ISR rule. The company raised a $5M Series A in July 2024 and counts shippers and 3PLs such as Shell, Penske, C.H. Robinson and NFI among its users.
Rune Technologies
Rune Technologies is an Arlington, Virginia defense software company building TyrOS, an AI-enabled, edge-first logistics platform for the U.S. military. Founded in 2024 by Anduril alumni David Tuttle and Peter Goldsborough, Rune aims to replace the spreadsheets and whiteboards that still run military sustainment with predictive software that forecasts supply needs, recommends transport, and keeps working in communications-denied, contested environments. It has raised more than $30 million and deployed with the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps.
Marc Khoury
Marc Khoury is the co-founder and CEO of aifleet, an Austin-based tech-native trucking company that uses proprietary AI to schedule routes, automate load booking, and keep its employee drivers busier and better paid. A civil engineer turned management consultant, he ran strategy at US Xpress before launching aifleet in 2020 to attack what he calls trucking's real problem: not a driver shortage, but a retention problem rooted in an inefficient, fragmented $400 billion market. The company has raised roughly $55 million and grown its fleet from dozens of drivers to hundreds.
Boxbot
Boxbot is an Alameda, California robotics company building AI-enabled automated storage and parcel-handling systems for the supply chain. Its modular platform turns flat conveyors into three-dimensional, high-density storage that can store, sort, and sequence packages of varying sizes with minimal floor space. After pivoting from autonomous last-mile delivery vehicles, Boxbot now sells a hardware-and-software system aimed at last-mile delivery stations, 3PLs, air cargo, and cross-dock operations, promising faster vehicle loading and denser, more intelligent package flow at lower cost.