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Loadsmart found the bottleneck. It wasn’t the truck.
A freight quote is only the beginning. Loadsmart’s bet is that the real savings live between the booking, the warehouse door, and the final bill.
Emerge wants freight to stop buying blind
A yearly bid cannot keep up with a moving market. Emerge puts carriers, competing rates and buying decisions on the same screen - then asks shippers to look more often.
Andrew Leto and the trouble with the first offer
An eBay shipping request helped Andrew Leto start GlobalTranz. Three freight businesses later, he is still asking what happens when buyers can see more of the market.
Leaf Logistics wants you to buy the round trip
A cheap outbound truck can hide an expensive journey home. Leaf Logistics connects freight plans so shippers and carriers can stop paying for the gaps between them.
SMC³ and the curious case of the freight discount
A bigger discount can buy you a worse freight deal. SMC³ built a business around making the numbers comparable, then followed the shipment all the way to the invoice.
Mark McEntire Came Back to Make Freight Move Before the Market Does
After 35 years in transportation, the new Emerge CEO is betting that freight procurement should never sleep - and that software works best when its leaders keep listening.
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.
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.