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Chris Cochran and the Business of Keeping the Lights On
Chris Cochran built FreightWise by making shipping costs easier to see. Buying Kuebix gave the second-time founder a different assignment: keep a software community running, and give its customers a reason to stay.
Jett McCandless and the long goodbye to the check call
At $12 an hour, he was the person you called to find a truck. After building project44, Jett McCandless is working on a harder question: what should happen after you find it?
Anggia Meisesari and the freedom to change the machinery
After years teaching software and running technology businesses, Anggia Meisesari built TransTRACK around a practical frustration: fleet operators needed more choice. Her route from Bandung classrooms to regional logistics offers a lesson in knowing when to start again.
Mahesh Niruttan and the business of letting go
The 20Cube founder put software at the centre of a freight business. His colleagues remember another investment: giving people room to take responsibility.
Alexandre Felix and the trouble with going faster
After helping run Loggi’s parcel operations, Alexandre Felix founded Nexallog to tackle a quieter problem: transport businesses can win more work and still run short of cash.
Chad Raube and the Value of the Outside View
The IntelliTrans CEO has made a career of entering established industries and asking the impolite, useful question: what if the model itself is the constraint?
Karl Siebrecht and the Fine Art of Planning to Be Wrong
The Flexe co-founder built his career in systems where certainty is expensive and pressure is ordinary. His answer is not a better forecast, but a business designed to survive the forecast being wrong.
Prashant Bhatia Has Spent a Career Closing the Gap Between the Plan and the Yard
From warehouse software to omnichannel retail and port operations, the Georgia Tech engineer has followed one stubborn question for three decades: can the system help someone act?
Jaimie Kowalski Keeps Marketing Close to the Numbers
After big budgets at Chase and Sears, Jaimie Kowalski chose a harder brief: make growth measurable, make small teams dangerous, and never confuse a campaign with a business result.
Kim Emond Makes the Invisible Work of a Warehouse Count
At Royal 4 Systems, the veteran 3PL specialist works where warehouse detail meets commercial consequence - making sure receiving, repacking, storage and shipping become visible, measurable work.
Renee Truttmann Makes the Warehouse Make Sense
Warehouse software is a world of docks, data and unforgiving details. Made4net CMO Renee Truttmann has spent two decades translating that machinery into a clear business case for change.
Taylor Pawelka Packed a Decade of Marketing Into ProShip - Then Chose the Unmarked Box
For ten years, Taylor Pawelka made parcel software sound like a conversation worth joining. Now, after building a team, an industry voice and a fondness for putting shipping strategies on the roast, she has left ProShip with her next label deliberately unwritten.
Karin Stevens Learned Marketing in Music. Then She Helped Turn Supply-Chain Chaos Into a Product.
Before Overhaul had revenue, Karin Stevens came in for messaging and stayed to help shape the product. Her route from Scottish coffee counters and music licensing to an Austin control tower is a lesson in getting close to the work.
Ed Rusch Has Spent 20 Years Making B2B Software Sound Like People
The Magaya CMO built a career in unglamorous corners of enterprise software by asking a disarmingly human question: are you speaking in your customer's language?
Kushal Pillay Put Robot Eyes in a Phone
After years teaching robots to see, Kushal Pillay reached a practical conclusion: warehouses did not always need another machine. Sometimes they needed the camera already in a worker’s hand.
Raghav Midha Is Making 330 Vehicle Data Systems Speak One Language
From a Queen Street walk-in closet to two terabytes a day, the Toronto founder built Terminal by turning trucking's least glamorous software chore into shared infrastructure.
Barry Conlon Built a Control Room for the World’s Cargo
From Irish special operations to an Austin control room, Barry Conlon has spent three decades turning freight’s faintest warning signals into action. His second act now includes buying back the business lineage he once sold - and pushing visibility toward something more useful: control.
Sam Tyagi
Sam Tyagi is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and the founder, CEO and chairman of KlearNow.AI, an AI-powered platform that digitizes customs clearance and drayage to make global supply chains clearer, faster and cheaper. Before KlearNow he built and exited three IT integration companies, including Softline and Systech, and he is a managing partner at Argean Capital. He often frames his mission as bringing to customs clearance what Uber brought to transportation.
Jordan Graft
Jordan Graft is the founder and CEO of Highway, a Dallas-based freight technology company he started in 2022 to solve carrier identity and fraud in trucking. A three-time CEO before 40, he previously led TriumphPay to become the largest payer of freight invoices in the US, co-founded the software shop CrateBind, and worked in private equity at TA Associates and investment banking at J.P. Morgan. Highway coined the category of Carrier Identity and now partners with the largest US freight brokerage, C.H. Robinson.
Gaurav Khandelwal
Gaurav Khandelwal is the founder and CEO of Velostics, a Houston-based logistics SaaS company that automates appointment scheduling, dock and yard management, and the gate in/out process for shippers and carriers. The son of a tea blender from India, he came to the US for college at tiny Goshen College in Indiana, built the behavioral-science software studio ChaiOne into a multi-million-dollar firm starting in 2009, then turned his attention to the friction-filled 'middle mile' of commerce. He launched Velostics to digitize the antiquated handoffs between warehouses and trucks, raised a $2.5M seed round led by Flyover Capital, and is a fixture of Houston's startup ecosystem as the founder of START co-working space and a Houston Exponential board member.
Marc Gyoengyoesi
Marc Gyoengyoesi is the founder and CEO of OneTrack.AI, a Chicago company that puts AI cameras on forklifts to give warehouses the kind of real-time visibility that factory floors take for granted. He started out building autonomous inventory drones at Northwestern's startup incubator as Intelligent Flying Machines, crashed one on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in front of 2,500 people, picked up 12 stitches from another crash in development, and concluded that the cameras mattered more than the things flying them. Today OneTrack runs on deep learning, computer vision and distributed computing across trillions of images, turning forklift footage into safety alerts, shipment validation and operational intelligence.
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.