HONK began with a dead battery and an awkward question: why was summoning a car easier than rescuing one? Its answer became a roadside network that insurers could make their own.
AI voice agents can chase a truck’s status, ETA and dock time. The harder question for freight teams is when the call should end with a person - and whether carriers will want to answer again.
Flott HQ is an AI-native operating system for transport and logistics fleets. It pulls a fleet's scattered operational data (planning, GPS, fuel, mileage) and financial data (revenue, orders, invoices) into one control center, then lets AI agents handle the repetitive busywork - dispatch, billing, payment tracking - so operators can see their whole business in one place and run leaner. Founded in 2025 by high school friends Sylvanus Mahe and Kanvaly Fadiga, the company went through Y Combinator's Spring 2025 (X25) batch.
Grubtech is a Dubai-based restaurant technology company that builds a unified operating system for food and beverage and quick-commerce businesses. Its middleware platform, gOnline, connects fragmented software touchpoints - POS systems, ERP, delivery aggregators like Talabat, Deliveroo, Careem and Uber Eats, kitchen displays, dispatch and analytics - into a single dashboard so restaurants, cloud kitchens, grocers and pharmacies can run online and in-store operations without juggling multiple screens. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $33.4M and operates across roughly 18 markets.
Yaakov Zar is the founder and CEO of Lev, a New York company rebuilding how commercial real estate gets financed. He started Lev in 2019 after watching a $4 million loan crawl through six months of email, faxes and paperwork - and decided a $200-billion-a-year industry running on 1990s process deserved better software. Lev began as a tech-enabled brokerage connecting borrowers to nearly 10,000 lenders, raised more than $200 million, then pivoted into an AI-powered CRM and agentic workflow platform for brokers, lenders and sponsors. Before Lev, Zar co-founded Dispatch, a workforce platform sold to Vista Equity Partners in 2018.
SmartHop is a Miami-based trucking technology company that gives small fleets and owner-operators a business-in-a-box platform. It pairs AI-driven load recommendations and full-service dispatch with fintech tools - fuel cards, payments, and insurance - so independent truckers can compete with large carriers without drowning in paperwork.
CloudTrucks is a San Francisco-based virtual trucking carrier that gives owner-operators and small fleets the software, payments, insurance, and load-booking tools to run their businesses like a modern enterprise without the back-office headaches.