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The 30-Hour Spreadsheet That Built a Climate Startup
Trucking is the biggest carbon line item in almost every supply chain - and until recently, most carriers reported it by hand. Celine King built software to do it in seconds, and sold it to an industry that hates change.
The Startup That Read 400,000 Truck Crashes So Your Fleet Doesn't Become the Next One
Idelic turned a trucking company's in-house safety tool into a machine-learning platform that predicts crashes before they happen. In April 2026, Descartes bought it for up to $40 million.
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.
Coba
Coba is a cross-border financial infrastructure company built for businesses moving money between the United States and Mexico. It started in 2023 as a dual-currency consumer account for Latin American remote workers earning in dollars, and has since pivoted to B2B: multi-currency accounts, CLABE-enabled Mexican peso accounts for US companies, sub-24-hour carrier settlements, and embedded FX rails routed through banking partners, SPEI, ACH, SWIFT, wires, and stablecoins. Its sharpest focus is the US-Mexico freight and logistics corridor, where brokers and carriers have long been underserved by slow, opaque cross-border banking.
Terminal
Terminal is a universal API for telematics data in commercial trucking and fleet management. It connects to hundreds of telematics service providers - GPS, safety events, fault codes, dash-cam media, driver hours - and delivers that data in one normalized feed, so insurers, fleet software, logistics firms and fintechs can build products without wiring up hundreds of one-off integrations. Often called 'the Plaid of trucking,' the Toronto company was founded in 2023, went through Y Combinator's S23 batch, and has raised $26M to date.
Highway
Highway is a Dallas-based logistics technology company that built the freight industry's Carrier Identity platform, verifying that the carrier a broker books is who they claim to be. Founded in 2022 by former TriumphPay CEO Jordan Graft, Highway connects a carrier's digital identity to its physical operations to stop double brokering, impersonation and freight fraud in real time. Its Identify, Connect and Monitor products - plus the newer Trusted Freight Exchange - serve more than 1,050 brokers, including 70 of the 100 largest freight brokers in the United States.
Nuvocargo
Nuvocargo is a digital-first freight forwarder and licensed U.S. customs broker built to simplify the $40B+ over-the-road freight market between the United States and Mexico. Through a single platform, it combines trucking, customs clearance, cargo insurance, carrier payments and trade finance, and is increasingly layering AI automation across the load lifecycle. Founded in 2019 by Deepak Chhugani, the New York- and Mexico City-based company has raised over $74M and rode the nearshoring wave to serve roughly 500 shippers including Kimberly-Clark, Nestle and Grupo Bimbo.
BlueCargo
BlueCargo is a logistics SaaS company that helps importers, freight forwarders, and drayage carriers monitor, forecast, and dispute the accessorial fees - demurrage, detention, and per diem - that pile up when shipping containers get stuck moving from port terminals to their first warehouse. Founded in 2018 by French engineers Alexandra Griffon and Laura Theveniau after they met near the Port of Oakland, the company aggregates data from North America's busiest container ports and uses AI to audit freight invoices and reclaim overcharges, having saved customers more than $175M in fees.
Drōv Technologies
Drōv Technologies is an Oklahoma City company building smart-trailer technology for the trucking industry. Its flagship AirBoxOne platform unifies tire inflation, wheel-end, load, temperature, door, and impact sensors into a single connected system that streams real-time diagnostics to drivers and fleet offices. Founded on a legacy of tire-inflation hardware expertise, Drōv aims to make trailers as connected as the tractors pulling them, targeting fuel efficiency, uptime, safety, and predictive maintenance across dry vans, reefers, and petroleum tankers.
Vendorflow
Vendorflow is a Los Angeles-based unified communications platform for trucking fleets, freight brokers, ports, and terminals. It consolidates voice, SMS, WhatsApp, and ELD in-cab messaging into a single shared inbox that integrates with TMS and ELD systems, so dispatch and operations teams can collaborate on driver conversations in one place - no app installs required for drivers.
Terraline
Terraline is a Bay Area vehicle technology company founded in 2021 (originally Solo Advanced Vehicle Technologies) by ex-Tesla and Waymo engineer Graham Doorley. It set out to decarbonize freight with a clean-sheet, battery-electric Class 8 long-haul truck, the Tangra LH1, boasting 500+ miles of range and the lowest drag coefficient of any Class 8 truck. The company has since evolved toward a software-defined vehicle (SDV) platform - a central compute system, cloud telemetry, and an AI backend - aimed at modernizing the electronic architecture of heavy machines.
Cargomatic
Cargomatic is a digital freight marketplace and technology platform that connects shippers with local and regional trucking capacity in real time. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Long Beach, California, it specializes in drayage and short-haul freight - moving containers off ports and onto roads - alongside intermodal, full-truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), and white-glove delivery. By pairing a carrier mobile app with smart routing and bundling software, Cargomatic helps fill empty truck miles, speed cargo off congested docks, and give shippers visibility into shipments that traditionally lived on paper and phone calls.
FleetWorks
FleetWorks is a San Francisco AI company rebuilding how freight gets matched and booked. Its voice and text AI agents handle the phone calls, texts, and emails that brokers and carriers trade to cover loads - work that has barely changed since the 1980s. Launched out of Y Combinator in 2023 by ex-Uber Freight and ex-Airbnb operators, FleetWorks now runs an 'always-on dispatcher' that connects with thousands of carriers daily and works with over 40 U.S. brokerages, including 15 of the top 100.
Shipwell
Shipwell is an Austin-based software company building an AI-integrated transportation management system (TMS) that unifies shipment planning, real-time visibility, automation, and settlement in one cloud platform. Founded in 2016 by Greg Price and Jason Traff, it helps shippers and logistics teams across food & beverage, manufacturing, and distribution move freight with less manual work. After selling its brokerage arm to CloudTrucks in 2024, Shipwell now operates as a pure-play SaaS provider and has been named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for TMS for five consecutive years.
SmartHop
SmartHop is a Miami-based trucking technology company that gives small fleets and owner-operators a business-in-a-box platform. It pairs AI-driven load recommendations and full-service dispatch with fintech tools - fuel cards, payments, and insurance - so independent truckers can compete with large carriers without drowning in paperwork.
TrueNorth
TrueNorth is a San Francisco software company building the operating system for trucking. Its AI dispatcher, Loadie, pulls freight from across the market and books loads for independent carriers and brokers - matching trucks to the most profitable freight, automating paperwork, and handling outreach. Backed by Sam Altman and Lachy Groom, the company wants to give solo truckers the economics and tooling of a large fleet.
RoadFlex
RoadFlex is a modern Visa fuel and expense card platform built for growing fleets. It gives fleet operators real-time visibility and control over fuel and work-related spending, layering AI-driven fraud detection, telematics-based purchase validation, automated reconciliation, and IFTA fuel-tax reporting on top of a card accepted at virtually every fuel station. The company positions itself as the transparent, software-first alternative to legacy fuel-card incumbents like WEX and Corpay (Fleetcor).
Motive
Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) is a San Francisco-based technology company building an AI-powered platform for the physical economy. It helps companies that run trucks, equipment, and field workers manage safety, operations, compliance, and spend in one system - combining edge-AI dashcams, GPS telematics, and fintech tools used by nearly 100,000 businesses from small fleets to Fortune 500 enterprises like Halliburton, Komatsu, and Maersk.
Augment
Augment builds Augie, an AI teammate purpose-built for logistics. The San Francisco company automates the phone calls, emails, portal logins, and back-office workflows that bog down freight brokers, shippers, and carriers - and has raised $110M in under a year to scale it.
CloudTrucks
CloudTrucks is a San Francisco-based virtual trucking carrier that gives owner-operators and small fleets the software, payments, insurance, and load-booking tools to run their businesses like a modern enterprise without the back-office headaches.
Aperia Technologies
Aperia Technologies is a Hayward, California hardware-and-software company whose Halo Tire Inflator and Halo Connect platform keep commercial truck tires at the right pressure using only the wheel's rotation. Founded in 2010 by Stanford-trained engineers Josh Carter and Brandon Richardson, the company helps fleets cut fuel use, prevent blowouts, and reduce roadside breakdowns across billions of miles of freight.