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Seanergy.ai closes the gap between knowing and doing
A bus report, a delayed shipment, a missed booking. Seanergy.ai builds the data systems and conversational agents that help businesses do something about them.
Wabash wants to sell you uptime.
The trailer maker built its reputation on tougher walls. Its next bet is that fleets will pay for fewer headaches - and more time on the road.
Covenant found its edge in the difficult loads
A truck is easy to compare on price. A fleet that knows your factory, your deadline, or your chickens is a different proposition. Covenant has spent years buying and building that distinction.
Norfolk Southern and the price of a handoff
A freight railroad makes its money connecting things. Norfolk Southern’s next chapter turns on what happens between them: a container transfer, a warning signal, and an $85 billion merger still under review.
VisionX gives the physical world a desk job
A coffee table, a parcel label and a utility complaint have something in common: they need translating into a decision. VisionX builds the AI that does the translating.
Lynden took the long way to Alaska. Then it built the alternatives.
A six-week scouting trip helped open an Alaska freight route. A later collapse in trucking demand taught Lynden to give every shipment more than one way home.
Alibaba Wants to Sell You the Shop - and the AI Behind It
The company that connected small factories to the world is putting billions into the computing behind commerce. Its next act hinges on whether the machinery can become as valuable as the marketplace.
The Austin Drone Company Betting the Air Force Will Ditch the $30,000 Helicopter Hour
Skyways flies cargo drones nobody steers - no joystick, no remote pilot - between air bases and out to oil rigs. Now it wants to turn a hand-built aircraft into a production line.
The Firm That Says It Only Gets Paid When You Do
A Saint Paul private equity shop is betting that warehouses, refrigerated trucks and neighborhood restaurants - not startups - are where patient money still compounds. Its promise to investors is a structure where the firm wins only when they do.
The Fund That Never Sells: How Tide Rock Turned 21 Boring Businesses Into a $1 Billion Machine
Most private equity firms rent companies for five years and flip them. Tide Rock buys them with cash, keeps them forever, and mails owners a check every quarter. It is a quieter idea - and it has compounded into more than a billion dollars of buying power.
Cart.com Wants To Be The Operating System Behind Everything You Buy Online
Founded in 2020, the Houston company stitched together software and a warehouse network to sell brands one thing they rarely get: their orders, inventory and shipping in a single place.
The Logistics Giant That Sold Its Trucks and Kept the Map
Agility built a freight empire across the emerging world, sold it to a Danish rival for stock, and used the proceeds to buy airports' ground crews and fuel tankers instead. Here is how a Kuwaiti warehousing company became a holding company for the plumbing of global trade.
The Fund That Bets on Boring: Predictive Hunts Data Moats in the Industries AI Forgot
While most AI money chases chatbots, Kevin Alvarez-Fung is writing seed checks into freight, factories and payments - and handing founders a rolodex of 500 corporations to prove it works.
The VC That Bets on the Boring, Broken Industries Everyone Else Skips
Two operators who helped build Oscar Health left to fund the unglamorous machinery of insurance, supply chains and climate. Their pitch to founders is simple: the hardest markets are the biggest ones.
The Chilean Freight Company That Hands Its Drivers the Keys to the Truck
RockTruck moved 1.7 million last-mile deliveries with a fleet it mostly does not own - then sold 70% of the company to a gas giant. Here is how the collaborative model actually works.
Bob Has Been Selling South Africa Everything Since 1999. Now It Wants the Whole Transaction.
The company that began as bidorbuy - a R1, no-reserve auction site - quietly stitched a marketplace, a payment gateway, a courier network and 250 smart lockers into one login. It is chasing unicorn status the unglamorous way: one parcel at a time.
Imperial Trading
For more than a century, a New Orleans wholesaler has quietly kept America's corner stores stocked. Now Imperial Trading is betting that the future of the convenience store isn't the shelf - it's the kitchen.
Amazon
From a garage bookstore in 1994 to a $200 billion quarter: how Amazon turned customer obsession into the operating system of modern commerce, computing, and now AI.
Baskit
We simplify supply chain challenges with tools that help brands grow and scale in Indonesia.
AI Rudder
AI Rudder is a Singapore-based voice AI company that automates high-volume customer phone calls and chats for banks, lenders, insurers, e-commerce and logistics firms. Its human-sounding voice agents handle payment reminders, verification, surveys, telemarketing and customer service across 15+ languages and regional accents, letting enterprises scale contact-center work without adding headcount. Backed by Sequoia, Tiger Global and Coatue, it serves 500+ enterprise clients concentrated in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
aCommerce
aCommerce is Southeast Asia's largest end-to-end e-commerce enabler, running online sales operations on behalf of global brands across Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. Founded in Bangkok in 2013, it combines managed services - storefront design, performance marketing, customer care, warehousing and last-mile delivery - with a proprietary software stack, EcommerceIQ, that gives brands a single view of their marketplace, D2C and social-commerce channels. Backers include Emerald Media (KKR), Indies Capital and Blue Sky, and the company has raised roughly US$119M to date.
20Cube Logistics
20Cube Logistics is a Singapore-based, software-enabled international supply chain orchestrator that moves freight from purchase order to proof of delivery. Founded in 2011 by ex-Agility Logistics executives, it pairs freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution and customs brokerage with MyHubPlus, a proprietary digital platform giving customers real-time shipment visibility, exception management and reporting across 12 countries and 85+ locations.
Bikry App (Bizrise Technologies YC W20)
Bikry, built by Bizrise Technologies (Y Combinator W20), is a no-code direct-to-consumer platform that lets Indian retailers and small business owners launch an online store in minutes at 0% commission. It bundles a shareable catalog, 40+ digital payment options, and 35+ pan-India delivery partners so shop owners can sell through WhatsApp and social media without building a website or paying marketplace fees.
Bizmark
Bizmark is a Y Combinator (S26) startup building an operating system for companies that make, move, or sell physical goods. It connects to the systems, inboxes, spreadsheets, documents, and know-how already inside a business and turns that context into automated quoting, dynamic scheduling, and inventory forecasting - shipping a working product in weeks rather than years.
Burt
Burt (YC W26) builds AI teammates for logistics. The San Francisco company helps freight brokers and forwarders deploy AI coworkers that handle repetitive, manual work end-to-end - check calls, document processing, covering loads, invoicing - by reading emails, making calls, logging into portals, and updating the customer's TMS, following each team's own processes. Founded by Bobby Zhong and Kurt Sharma, both of whom grew up in logistics families, Burt started by training specialized models that beat frontier models on cost and latency, then focused those models on freight operations.
Donkey
Donkey is an AI-native trading company that buys straight from Chinese factories and sells delivered to US importers at one USD price to their dock, duty paid. By reading public US customs records, Donkey identifies the factory that actually makes a part, quotes it without the traditional 15-30% trading-company markup, runs its own inspections on the factory floor before the factory gets paid, and offers credit-insured net-45 terms. A YC Summer 2026 company based in San Francisco and China.
FirstWork
FirstWork is a San Francisco-based, YC S24 enterprise AI company building autonomous agents that automate workforce operations for frontline and seasonal labor. Its platform handles document verification, credentialing, continuous compliance, and worker onboarding inside a company's existing systems, cutting time-to-hire and onboarding by up to 80%. Founded in 2024 by Vardhan Kapoor (ex-Remitly, Deliveroo) and Shubham Choudhary (ex-Deel, Rippling), FirstWork raised a $5M seed round led by Gradient and serves staffing, logistics, delivery, and care companies including Deel, Job&Talent, Relay, and Wonolo.
Flott HQ
Flott HQ is an AI-native operating system for transport and logistics fleets. It pulls a fleet's scattered operational data (planning, GPS, fuel, mileage) and financial data (revenue, orders, invoices) into one control center, then lets AI agents handle the repetitive busywork - dispatch, billing, payment tracking - so operators can see their whole business in one place and run leaner. Founded in 2025 by high school friends Sylvanus Mahe and Kanvaly Fadiga, the company went through Y Combinator's Spring 2025 (X25) batch.
Hop Aero
Hop Aero is a Los Angeles aerospace startup (YC S26) building Rook, an autonomous cargo rocket that launches from a standard 40-foot shipping container, flies a suborbital hypersonic arc, and lands 250 kg of cargo up to 750 km away in roughly 15 minutes - onto unprepared ground, with no runway or fixed infrastructure. Founded in 2024 by Matija Milenovic and Jacob Balaj, the company targets contested military logistics and high-downtime commercial supply runs.
Sekilo
Sekilo is a Jakarta-based B2B company building an AI-powered halal protein supply chain for Indonesia's foodservice industry, starting with poultry. Formerly the quick-commerce grocery startup Dropezy (YC W22), it pivoted in 2023 to process and distribute chicken to caterers, restaurant chains, industrial buyers, and processed-meat factories. Sekilo unifies procurement, processing, cold chain, and delivery into a single asset-light operating layer, handling custom orders from 25kg for small caterers up to 10-20 tons for large buyers.