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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.
Gregory Price
Gregory (Greg) Price is the CEO and co-founder of Shipwell, an Austin-based logistics technology company building a connected, AI-driven transportation management platform. A blue-collar Houston kid turned MIT-trained engineer, he spent seven years building hardware and algorithms for the U.S. Department of Defense at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, then applied machine learning to Fortune 100 supply chains at McKinsey before founding Shipwell in 2016 to bring automation, visibility, and intelligence to the notoriously opaque freight industry.
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.
Paul Gross
Paul Gross is the co-founder and co-CEO of Remora, a Detroit-area climate hardware company that bolts a carbon-capture device onto the tailpipes of semi-trucks and locomotives, grabbing the CO2 before it ever hits the sky and selling it as beverage-grade gas to breweries and greenhouses. He read a stranger's PhD dissertation on mobile carbon capture during his senior year at Yale, wrote the author a business plan, and convinced her to quit the EPA to build a company with him. Remora has raised roughly $117 million and signed pilots with Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, Ryder, Werner, and Cargill.
Paul Singer
Paul Singer is the cofounder and CEO of FleetWorks, a San Francisco startup building always-on voice AI agents that handle the phone-and-email grind of freight brokerage. A former Uber Freight product manager and Yale economics grad, he started FleetWorks in late 2022 with cofounder Quang Tran, went through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch, and in October 2025 raised a $17M round (including a $15M Series A led by First Round Capital) to automate the matching of trucks with cargo across a $1T+ industry.
Richard Gerstein
Richard Gerstein is the Chairman and CEO of Cargomatic, the marketplace that matches local and regional freight with the trucks already driving past it. He grew up on the docks of his father's less-than-truckload business in Chicago, founded the multi-modal logistics software company IntelliTrans, and since 2017 has rebuilt Cargomatic into a leading provider of local LTL, drayage, and white glove freight services. He pairs a UC Berkeley transportation engineering background with a lifetime spent around loading docks.
Justin Hall
Justin Hall is Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Augment, a San Francisco-based AI startup building 'Augie' — an AI teammate purpose-built for logistics operations. With 25 years spent founding, scaling, and selling logistics companies, Hall has held executive roles at YRC Worldwide (a $5B LTL carrier), PRIMO Logistics, and his own firm Logistics Planning Services before it was acquired by GlobalTranz. At Augment, he helped raise $110M in under six months — a $25M seed round in early 2025 and an $85M Series A in September 2025 — to automate complex freight workflows end-to-end. Outside of logistics, Hall founded Change Starts with Me, a nonprofit supporting BIPOC founders and underserved communities in the Twin Cities.
Pablo Palafox
Pablo Palafox is the Co-Founder and CEO of HappyRobot, a San Francisco-based AI workforce platform that deploys autonomous voice agents for logistics and freight operations. A Spanish-born roboticist who left a PhD program at the Technical University of Munich in 2022, he has built HappyRobot from a YC S23 startup into a company serving 70+ enterprise clients including DHL, Ryder, Schneider, and Werner - raising $103M across three funding rounds, most recently a $44M Series B led by Base10 Partners with participation from Andreessen Horowitz.
Rushil Goel
Rushil Goel is the CEO and Co-founder of Nirvana Insurance, an AI-native commercial trucking insurance company valued at $1.5 billion after a $100M Series D in December 2025. Before founding Nirvana, he spent five years at Samsara scaling fleet telematics from zero to $400M+ ARR, where he spotted the gap between how much safety data existed and how little insurance companies used it. An IIT Bombay CS grad with a Wharton MBA, Goel has built two companies and scaled products across India and the US - from mobile payments at Ola to connected fleet operations - before channeling everything into rebuilding commercial insurance from the ground up.
Tobenna Arodiogbu
Tobenna Arodiogbu is the co-founder and CEO of CloudTrucks, a San Francisco-based technology platform that gives independent truck drivers and owner-operators an all-in-one digital toolkit - from instant non-recourse payments and load booking to compliance management and business analytics. Born in Enugu, Nigeria, Arodiogbu previously co-founded Scotty Labs, an autonomous vehicle remote-operations startup that was acquired by DoorDash in 2019. CloudTrucks has raised over $141 million, including a $115 million Series B at an $850 million valuation led by Tiger Global and Menlo Ventures, making it one of the most well-funded platforms serving the backbone of American freight.
Julian Zheren Ma
Julian Zheren Ma is the founder and CEO of Inceptio Technology, the company behind what is arguably the world's most deployed autonomous trucking network. Based in Santa Clara and Shanghai, Inceptio has put over 4,000 Level 3 autonomous heavy-duty trucks on real freight routes, logging 500+ million commercial kilometers with zero fatal accidents. Before building Inceptio, Julian was a Corporate VP at Tencent overseeing LBS, search, and early autonomous driving initiatives, then president of G7, China's leading logistics big data firm. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an MBA from IMD Switzerland, and is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute China Fellowship Program.
Sushanth Raman
Sushanth Raman is the co-founder and CEO of Pallet, a San Francisco-based AI company building an autonomous workforce for the logistics industry. Drawing on family roots in food distribution and stints at Microsoft, Google, and Retool, he founded Pallet in 2022 with fellow Retool engineer Andrew Spencer. The company has raised $50M total — including a $27M Series B led by General Catalyst in May 2025 — and its CoPallet platform automates the manual back-office operations (order entry, quoting, portal updates, shipment tracking) that still consume billions of dollars annually in a $12 trillion global logistics market.
Graham Doorley
Graham Doorley is the Founder and CEO of Terraline, a Fremont-based startup building the first clean-sheet, battery-electric Class 8 long-haul truck with 500+ miles of range. A lifelong car enthusiast with a Physics-Materials Science degree from Carnegie Mellon and a Mechatronics Masters from Stanford, he spent eight years as a senior engineer at Google X and Waymo - where he led the early self-driving truck project that became Waymo Via - before designing Tesla Model S suspension systems. In 2021, he channeled that accumulated expertise into Terraline (originally Solo AVT), assembling a team of Waymo, Tesla, BMW, Ford, Faraday Futures, and Rivian alumni to tackle freight's massive emissions problem with a truck agnostic to whether the driver is human or autonomous.