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The Freight Map That Learned to Make the Next Move
project44 spent a decade showing companies where their freight had gone. Now it wants its software to decide what happens next - before the late container becomes a late production line.
Velostics
Velostics is a Houston-based logistics SaaS company building an AI-enabled platform that unifies dock and yard operations. Its software automates 3-way appointment scheduling between shippers, carriers and consignees, digitizes gate check-in, and uses AI voice agents to book, confirm and reschedule loads without manual phone tag. Founded in 2019 by ChaiOne CEO Gaurav Khandelwal, the company helps manufacturers, distributors and 3PLs cut detention, dwell time and freight costs by closing the gap between transportation and distribution.
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.
Renaissant
Renaissant is a Milwaukee-based logistics software company that builds a Yard Execution System (YES) - an integrated platform that orchestrates the movement of trucks, drivers and freight across the gate, dock and yard. By connecting people, systems and devices into a single load record, Renaissant automates scheduling, driver validation, gate access, yard moves and digital paperwork while also handling environmental compliance like California's WAIRE/ISR rule. The company raised a $5M Series A in July 2024 and counts shippers and 3PLs such as Shell, Penske, C.H. Robinson and NFI among its users.
FourKites, Inc.
FourKites is a Chicago-based enterprise software company that tracks roughly 3.2 million shipments a day across road, rail, ocean, air and last mile. Founded in 2014 by Matt Elenjickal, it pioneered applying SaaS to GPS and ELD telematics to give the world's largest shippers real-time visibility into where their freight actually is. Today the company is reinventing itself around AI: an Intelligent Control Tower and a 'Digital Workforce' of named AI agents that don't just show what is happening in a supply chain but decide and act on it.
Tom Dean
Tom Dean is the co-founder, President and CEO of Renaissant, a Milwaukee-based logistics technology company building a voice-enabled, agentic AI operating system for warehouse yards and loading docks. A former Ernst & Young auditor turned hedge fund trader and investment manager, Dean pivoted Renaissant from a building-security platform into freight tech, raised a $5 million Series A in 2024, and now runs software across roughly 130 sites that talks to truck drivers in their own language to speed check-ins, deter cargo theft, and cut idle time.