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The VC Firm That Measures Its Thesis in 53 Feet
Venture 53 ignores fashionable sectors and backs the software, sensors and services that keep goods moving. Its advantage is less about a secret algorithm than a tightly packed network of people who already know freight.
Leonardo Gannio
Leonardo Gannio is the founder and CEO of MAGIIS, a Miami-based mobility-as-a-service platform for transportation-for-hire operators. A serial entrepreneur born in Buenos Aires, he built the technology distributor AKTIO Group into a $500M, seven-country business before selling it, after corporate stints at NCR, Informix, PeopleSoft, Lexmark and Ingram Micro. He is the author of 'Mobility 3.0: How to Win and Thrive in the Future of Passenger Transportation' and a keynote speaker who casts the future of mobility as electric, autonomous, connected and personalized.
Lisa Mullen
Lisa Mullen is the CEO and Managing Partner of Drōv Technologies, an Oklahoma City company building the brains for the most ignored object in trucking: the trailer. Under her leadership the company scrapped its old mechanical tire-inflation products, re-engineered the wheel-end from scratch, and shipped AirBoxOne - an IoT gateway that turns a dumb steel box into a sensor-laden, self-inflating, camera-equipped machine that reports its own health in real time. She took the top job in March 2020, weeks before the world locked down, and spent the next years proving that the part of the truck nobody thinks about is exactly where the value hides.
Shaurya Saluja
Shaurya Saluja is the co-founder and CEO of Fleet, a San Francisco commuter-benefits platform he spun out of research at Stanford in 2018. He turned a Bay Area gripe - the Big Tech shuttle buses crowding the freeways - into a company that hands the commuting superpowers of giant employers to companies of any size. Fleet automates pre-tax transit benefits, employer subsidies, government grants, and rewards across every mode of transport, and raised over $5 million led by Congruent Ventures. A Stanford computer scientist and data analyst, Saluja brought peer-to-peer carsharing to Eastern Europe and launched demand-responsive carpooling in the Bay Area before Fleet, and was named to the Association for Commuter Transportation's 2023 40 Under 40.
Carpool Logistics
Carpool Logistics is an Atlanta-based technology platform and marketplace that connects auto haulers with shippers - auctions, dealerships, manufacturers, and fleets - to move vehicles faster, cheaper, and with fewer emissions. By bundling multiple vehicles into shared shipments and layering on real-time tracking and instant quoting, Carpool modernizes a fragmented, multi-billion-dollar industry that still runs largely on phone calls and spreadsheets. Founded in 2021 by Michael Malakhov, the company has shipped more than 150,000 vehicles for over 1,800 clients and raised a $12M Series A in 2025 led by Wavecrest Growth Partners, with CarMax participating.