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Pallet Memory Keeps Logistics Expertise From Walking Out
A freight document tells you what arrived. Pallet Memory supplies the customer rules, preferences, and exceptions that tell an AI agent what to do next—and keeps that knowledge on the job when people move on.
Pallet’s Plan to Never Solve the Same Freight Exception Twice
Freight runs on exceptions, and on the people who know what to do with them. Pallet’s continuous intelligence loop aims to turn each validated human fix into knowledge the next shipment can use.
The AI Freight Agent Your Brokerage Should Hire First
At 200 loads a day, the right AI agent depends on where work stalls: the phone, the inbox, carrier coverage, or status updates. Here is how to choose a first pilot, test the vendor's claims, and know when it has paid off.
Ulf Sandberg Has Spent a Career Making Paperwork Behave
Before trade documents became an AI problem, Sandberg learned how to make open-source infrastructure serve real businesses. At KlearNow.AI, that long apprenticeship has found an unusually stubborn target: the paperwork between a shipment and its destination.
Outrider Put the Self-Driving Bet Where It Can Actually Work: The Yard
The highway stole the self-driving headlines. Outrider went behind the warehouse, taught an 80,000-pound robot to hitch trailers, dodge traffic and mind the brake lines - then built the safety and support machinery enterprises demand.
Bobby Zhong Left the Keyboard and Went Looking for Freight
The Burt co-founder grew up around a 3PL warehouse, learned to build AI systems, then traded morning code for cold calls, rental cars and the occasional locked office door.
Jibran Hutchins Wants AI to Know Its Limits
The young Haladir co-founder is betting that the useful future of AI will be less about eloquent guesses and more about decisions that survive contact with a warehouse floor.
Datatruck Wants to Be the Operating System Trucking Runs On
A Chicago-founded startup is betting that trucking's back office - the spreadsheets, the phone tag, the paperwork - is a software problem AI can finally solve. About 500 carriers are already running on it.
The Freight Forwarder That Wants to Make Shipping Feel Boring
Global trade still runs on phone calls, spreadsheets and anxious follow-ups. Cogoport is packaging the messy middle - rates, bookings, customs, tracking, insurance and credit - into one operating layer for smaller businesses.
Haladir
Haladir is a San Francisco AI product lab (YC W26) building the decisional AI layer for logistics. It pairs formal optimization solvers with large language models so software can reason through hard constraints - routing, scheduling, labor and inventory allocation - and produce verifiable, optimal decisions instead of confident guesses. Its Nomos framework sits on top of existing WMS, TMS and OMS systems, unifies their data into one operational graph, and drives decisions through operator review, direct integration, or AI agents.
PortPro
PortPro is a New Jersey-based software company that builds a drayage-specific operating platform - a transportation management system (TMS) purpose-built for the container trucking companies and freight brokers that move ocean containers between ports, rail yards and warehouses. Its drayOS platform handles order entry, dispatch, container tracking, appointment setting, billing and driver payments in one system, and in 2025 it layered on 'Jerry' and 'Helen,' agentic-AI teammates that dispatch loads, validate documents and generate invoices automatically. Founded by Michael Mecca, who grew up in the drayage business, PortPro raised a $12M Series A led by Avenue Growth Partners in 2023 and serves hundreds of drayage carriers and brokers across North America.
Nash
Nash is the operating platform for last-mile logistics. It unifies delivery operations into one orchestration layer that lets enterprise merchants, marketplaces, and platforms route, dispatch, and track every order across internal fleets, 3PLs, and a network of 1,000+ delivery providers in 15+ countries. Founded in 2021 and backed by a16z and Y Combinator, Nash now powers deliveries for Walmart, Grubhub, Woolworths, 7-Eleven, Square, and Urban Outfitters.
Mahmoud Ghulman
Mahmoud Ghulman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nash, a San Francisco-based AI logistics platform that serves as the delivery infrastructure layer for commerce - connecting businesses like Walmart, 7-Eleven, and thousands of restaurants to hundreds of delivery providers through a single API. A physics graduate from MIT, Ghulman spent nearly a decade building gig-economy and AI businesses before co-founding Nash in 2021 with high school friend Aziz Alghunaim. The company has raised $29.1M in total funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator, and is pioneering agentic AI for last-mile delivery orchestration at enterprise scale.
Kargo
Kargo is a San Francisco-based AI company building computer vision systems for warehouse loading docks. Its Kargo Tower and Kargo Lift hardware capture freight as it moves, reading labels, flagging damage, and feeding accurate, real-time inventory data into enterprise systems.
Loop
Loop is a San Francisco logistics AI company that turns messy freight paperwork - PDFs, EDI feeds, carrier invoices - into structured data that finance and supply chain teams can actually use. Built around DUX, its in-house family of logistics-trained models, Loop automates freight audit, payment, and parcel visibility for enterprises including Michael Kors, Under Armour, and General Mills. The company raised a $95M Series C in April 2026 to expand from freight payments into a broader supply chain intelligence platform.
Matt McKinney
Matt McKinney is the Co-Founder and CEO of Loop, a San Francisco-based AI platform transforming freight audit and payment for the supply chain. A USC and Stanford-trained engineer, McKinney spent years at Uber helping launch Uber Freight before leaving to build Loop in 2021 with co-founder Shaosu Liu. The pair had watched firsthand how 20% of freight invoices contain errors and a single invoice takes 50 days to process - then decided to fix it. Loop has since raised $172M including a $95M Series C, processes billions in freight payments, and has grown to 280 employees serving customers like Olipop, Clemens Food Group, and Kendra Scott.