BlueCargo is a logistics SaaS company that helps importers, freight forwarders, and drayage carriers monitor, forecast, and dispute the accessorial fees - demurrage, detention, and per diem - that pile up when shipping containers get stuck moving from port terminals to their first warehouse. Founded in 2018 by French engineers Alexandra Griffon and Laura Theveniau after they met near the Port of Oakland, the company aggregates data from North America's busiest container ports and uses AI to audit freight invoices and reclaim overcharges, having saved customers more than $175M in fees.
Alexandra Griffon is the co-founder and CEO of BlueCargo, a Y Combinator-backed freighttech startup that turns the chaos of US ports into clean, auditable data. After a stint in M&A at Lazard and retail analytics at Guerlain, she went to UC Berkeley, worked on yard-stacking algorithms inside terminal operators, and discovered ports were a multi-billion-dollar black box. With co-founder Laura Theveniau, she built BlueCargo to monitor, forecast, and dispute the detention and demurrage charges that quietly drain importers' cash. The company has grown from two people to roughly 40, serves over 700 US importers and forwarders, tracks 15M+ container events, and says it has helped recover $175M+ in per diem fees. In 2024 she was named a Rising Star in the Women in Supply Chain Awards.
aifleet is an Austin-based, tech-driven trucking company that runs its own fleet on proprietary AI. Instead of selling software to carriers, it operates as a full-stack truckload carrier, using machine learning to book, price, and stack loads so trucks run fuller and drivers earn more with predictable weekly home time. The company reports roughly 40% higher truck utilization than the industry average and aims to fix the chronic inefficiency and high driver turnover that define long-haul freight.