Walmart is the world's largest retailer by revenue, operating a global network of supercenters, discount stores, neighborhood markets, Sam's Club warehouse clubs and a fast-growing e-commerce business. Founded in 1962 by Sam Walton in Rogers, Arkansas, the company built its scale on an 'everyday low prices' model powered by a highly efficient supply chain. Today it blends roughly 10,500 stores worldwide with digital commerce, retail advertising, a growing marketplace and AI-driven shopping tools, serving hundreds of millions of customers each week while employing about 2.1 million people.
Novelship is a Singapore-based online marketplace for buying and selling authentic sneakers, streetwear, apparel and collectibles across Asia-Pacific. Founded in 2018, it connects buyers and sellers through a bid-and-ask model, verifies every item in-house before it ships, and has grown into one of the region's largest platforms for limited-edition drops from brands like Nike, Jordan, Adidas, New Balance and ASICS.
Overdrive IOT is a Singapore-headquartered industrial IoT company that connects and monitors physical assets - vehicles, equipment, facilities and people - in real time on a single cloud platform. Founded in 2015 by Aston Chia and Zen Chin, it uses a mix of sensors, connectivity technologies and mesh networking to automate data sensing, then turns that data into tracking, alerting and command-centre visualisation for clients across aviation, logistics, construction and public services in Asia. Customers include Changi Airport, Sentosa, NTU, FedEx and Singapore's Ministry of Manpower. The company raised a US$2.9M Series A from Tin Men Capital.
Paxel is an Indonesian app-based logistics startup founded in 2018 that pioneered guaranteed same-day intercity delivery across Java and Bali. Using a relay network of couriers (Happiness Heroes) and smart lockers (PaxelBox), it moves parcels point-to-point within a promised time window, and has grown into a specialist in cold-chain and frozen-food delivery for SMEs, F&B businesses, and e-commerce sellers. It raised a $23M Series C in 2022 led by Astra.
PT. Global Jet Express, known globally as J&T Express, is an Indonesia-founded express delivery and logistics company built for the e-commerce era. Launched in Jakarta in 2015 by Jet Lee and Tony Chen, it grew from a domestic Indonesian courier into one of the world's largest parcel networks, operating across Southeast Asia, China, and new markets in the Middle East and Latin America. The company blends a dense physical network of sorting centers, depots, and couriers with digital tracking and automation, moving tens of millions of parcels a day for online sellers, marketplaces, and consumers.
Salasa is a Riyadh-based end-to-end e-commerce fulfillment and logistics platform. Founded in 2017, it gives online merchants a single stack for warehousing, order fulfillment, domestic and cross-border shipping, bonded zones, returns, and dark-store-powered two-hour delivery, connected through an OMS and API integrations with platforms like Salla, Zid, Shopify and Amazon and more than 40 carriers. The company has fulfilled tens of millions of orders for over 1,000 merchants and raised roughly $40 million to build a tech-first logistics network across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.
W-Locate is a Singapore-based location technology company that blends machine-to-machine (M2M) telematics, big data, cloud computing and location intelligence. Its two flagship platforms - FIND (Fleet Intelligent Dynamics), a cloud fleet-management system, and XimLoc, a patent-pending SIM-based positioning technology that locates any SIM device indoors or outdoors without relying solely on GPS - serve enterprises, mobile operators and governments across Asia. Founded in 2010 by Stevie Ooi, the company has raised roughly US$2M+ from TNF Ventures and RHB-OSK, and works with partners such as Tata Communications to deliver location services for construction, logistics, waste management and smart-city use cases.
WheeKeep is a Jeddah-based tech-enabled storage company that brings the storage unit to the customer. It drops off weatherproof, lockable containers at homes and businesses, lets people pack at their own pace, then collects and stores the units in secured, CCTV-monitored facilities across Saudi Arabia. Combining physical logistics with a mobile app for scheduling, delivery and retrieval, WheeKeep offers ambient and refrigerated units for both personal and commercial use, positioning itself in the growing on-demand self-storage market in the Kingdom.
Craig Collins is the CEO of GraniteWMS, a South African warehouse management software company that has grown from a Cape Town product into a system running in 240-plus warehouses across more than 40 industries and four continents. A University of Cape Town science graduate and one of the early figures in South African barcoding, Collins spent roughly three decades in warehouse operations before leading GraniteWMS's push into the United States, Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean. He hosts the company's 'What The Warehouse' show and is known for a hands-on, floor-level style: he spends much of his time inside actual warehouses looking for practical ways to improve how goods move.
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.
Brainchain AI is a New York-based artificial intelligence company that scans the world's public data in near real time to predict and mitigate global supply chain disruptions. Its platform combines natural language processing, language modeling and time-series forecasting to spot anomalies across news, government regulations, financial markets and commodity reports, then helps global brands and governments position ahead of price dislocations and keep supply and demand in balance. Founded in 2023 and led by CEO Roman Vintfeld, the company has raised roughly $1.89M to build what it describes as an 'immune response' for the world's supply chains.
Downstream is a Dallas-based online marketplace that lets construction contractors rent equipment, book waste hauling, and order jobsite services - dumpsters, porta potties, scissor lifts, forklifts, fencing, mobile offices - from a nationwide network of vetted suppliers. The platform delivers real-time pricing, multiple competing quotes per job, consolidated billing, Net 30 payment terms, and AI agents that read a contractor's rollout sheets or invoices to procure automatically. Founded in 2022 (originally as Trash Gurus), the company raised an $8M Series A in November 2025 co-led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and Moneta Ventures.
Geniemode is a Gurugram-based B2B cross-border sourcing and supply chain platform that connects global retailers and brands with a vetted network of manufacturers across apparel, home textiles, furniture, and accessories. Founded in 2021 by Amit Sharma and Tanuj Gangwani, it uses technology, AI-driven design, and integrated logistics to manage the end-to-end procurement cycle - from sample development and manufacturing to compliance, quality control, and delivery - offering buyers cost transparency, smaller MOQs, and faster turnaround than traditional sourcing agents.
GraniteWMS is a barcode-driven, cloud-based warehouse management system built for small and mid-market businesses. The flagship product of Cape Town-based Cradle Technology Services, it gives warehouses end-to-end visibility - receiving, put-away, picking, stock takes and full item traceability - and either runs standalone or integrates with ERP and accounting platforms such as Sage 200 Evolution, Sage 300, Sage Intacct and SAP Business One. It is deployed across 240+ warehouses spanning 40+ industries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North America.
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.
Outerspace is a brand-first third-party logistics (3PL) and fulfillment company that handles warehousing, picking, packing, kitting, shipping and returns for high-growth omnichannel consumer brands. Founded in late 2019 and headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, it pairs dedicated on-site operations teams with its proprietary Mission Control order-management and shipping technology to turn fulfillment from a cost center into a growth lever. The company serves DTC and retail brands across apparel, home goods, beauty and CPG, and has raised more than $34 million, including a $30M Series B led by Prysm Capital in 2022.
Parabola is a San Francisco-based no-code data automation platform that lets operations and finance teams turn messy, recurring, spreadsheet-driven processes into transparent, auditable AI-powered workflows. Users describe a process in plain language or drag-and-drop building blocks, and Parabola builds a documented agent that pulls data from PDFs, emails, spreadsheets and APIs, cleans and transforms it, and runs on a schedule. Founded by Alex Yaseen and backed by OpenView, Matrix, and Thrive Capital, the company focuses on ecommerce, retail, CPG, freight and logistics teams that need to automate work that traditionally required an engineer.
James Malley is the co-founder and CEO of Paccurate, a New York-based software company whose API decides the cheapest, lowest-waste way to pack every shipment. He grew up around multi-carrier shipping software, trained in theater, and spent years building parcel apps before he and CTO Pat Powers turned a side project fixing carriers' dimensional-weight pricing into a venture-backed cartonization platform used by major retailers and 3PLs.
Pallet Atlas is a data intelligence platform for logistics that ingests operational data from TMS, WMS, ERP systems, email, and documents, then normalizes and connects customers, subsidiaries, facilities, lanes, and contracts into a single network model. It enriches that model with outside signals like spot rates, lane density, distribution center locations, and weather, and lets operators ask plain-English questions to surface hidden revenue opportunities in seconds instead of days.
Inceptio Technology is a developer of full-stack autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks, headquartered in Shanghai with an R&D center in Fremont/Santa Clara, California. Founded in 2018 by Julian Ma, it works with truck OEMs to mass-produce Level 3 highway-capable trucks and operates one of the largest real-world autonomous freight fleets in the world. Its proprietary XUANYUAN and T-NOA systems power more than 4,000 trucks that have logged over 400 million kilometers of commercial operation for customers including JD Logistics, Nestle, Budweiser and Deppon Express, as it charts a data-driven roadmap toward scalable Level 4 autonomy.

Sarang Jagdale is a PhD engineer turned supply chain AI co-founder who spent over two decades cracking some of the world's hardest logistics problems - from IBM's global consulting floors to the startup that eventually became Lyric. As Head of Decision Science at Lyric, he architects the algorithmic core of a platform now trusted by Coca-Cola, Google, and Mondelez to make their supply chains think for themselves. Lyric raised $43.5M in Series B funding in August 2025, bringing total funding to $67M.
Jitsu is a tech-enabled, vertically integrated last-mile delivery company that helps e-commerce brands get parcels to the doorstep quickly, cheaply, and with unusually few lost packages. Formerly known as AxleHire, the Berkeley, California company built its own warehouse management, sortation, routing, and driver software so every system talks in real time, and it now covers 23 of the 25 largest U.S. metro areas with same-day, next-day, and two-day options at rates competitive with traditional ground shipping.
KonaWare was a Menlo Park mobility-software company founded in 1999 that built a platform and development tools for putting mission-critical enterprise applications into the hands of mobile field workers. Its suites covered transportation, logistics and field service - dispatch, proof-of-delivery, electronic driver logs, vehicle inspections and asset tracking - and were engineered to keep data intact whether devices were connected or not, running across laptops, PDAs and early smartphones. Backed by Draper Richards and Western Technology Investment, the company was an early bet on enterprise mobility years before the smartphone made it mainstream; its field-service assets were acquired by ServicePower in 2008.
LeafLink is a B2B wholesale platform for the legal cannabis industry - often called 'the Salesforce of bud.' It connects thousands of cannabis brands, distributors and retailers through a single marketplace that handles ordering, payments, banking, logistics and market data. Founded in 2016, LeafLink processes roughly $5 billion in annual gross merchandise value (about $9 billion including its acquired Leaf Trade platform), representing a large share of U.S. wholesale cannabis commerce across roughly 30 markets.
Sendoso is a San Francisco-based B2B "Sending Platform" that lets sales, marketing, and customer teams source, store, ship, and track physical gifts, direct mail, swag, eGifts, and handwritten notes at scale. Founded in 2016 by two former sales reps who noticed that a $5 coffee gift card broke through cold-email fatigue, the company wraps that instinct in software - integrating with Salesforce, HubSpot, and Marketo so a gift can be triggered like any other campaign step and measured for ROI. After raising a $100M Series C in 2021 and reaching unicorn status, Sendoso consolidated the category by acquiring rivals Alyce (2024) and Postal (2025), and now layers AI gift recommendations on top of its global fulfillment network.
Michael Marmo is the founder and CEO of CurbWaste, a New York-based software platform for waste haulers. A fourth-generation waste industry professional, Marmo started as a scale operator at a family transfer station, built a NYC hauling company called Curbside, then sold it in 2021 to focus on the software he had built to run it. CurbWaste now serves ~150 haulers across roughly 40 states and has raised about $50M in total funding, including a $28M Series B in October 2025 led by Socium Ventures.
Michael Mecca is the founder and CEO of PortPro, a Kearny, New Jersey based software company building a TMS purpose-built for drayage carriers and brokers. He grew up in his family's intermodal trucking business, Mecca & Son Trucking, then co-founded Axle Technologies before launching PortPro in 2019. Under his leadership PortPro raised a $12M Series A in 2023 and now serves 550+ drayage companies, layering AI agents (Jerry, Helen) on top of its operating platform.
Richard Fifita is the co-founder and CEO of Veyor, a cloud-based logistics scheduling platform for construction and large-scale facilities. A former civil engineer and Lendlease superintendent who helped deliver the Barangaroo International Towers in Sydney, he started Veyor in 2018 to fix the chaos he saw on his own jobsites and has since relocated to the United States to lead the company through its Series A expansion.
Ricky Choi is the co-founder and CEO of Outerspace, a brand-centric 3PL that runs picking, packing, kitting and shipping for direct-to-consumer companies out of a 200,000+ sq ft campus in northern New Jersey and additional coasts. Before Outerspace, he co-founded Nice Laundry, a Kickstarter-launched premium socks and underwear brand that set an opening-day backer record in fashion. He is a Wharton graduate who worked in venture capital and at LivingSocial before starting companies of his own.
Roman Vinfield (also known as Roman Vintfeld) is the CEO of Brainchain AI, a New York-based supply chain intelligence company using AI and ML to anticipate market anomalies and disruptions. He is co-founder of Worldwide Friends and Ukraine Friends, a 501(c)(3) emergency response organization that has coordinated evacuations, housing and medical aid at scale during the war in Ukraine. Previously he served as Chief Revenue Officer of WeShield, a PPE distributor that grew during COVID-19.