Flexport

Flexport, Inc. is a global freight forwarder and logistics platform that offers online customs brokerage and freight forwarding services. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides businesses with an online dashboard to understand, purchase, manage, and track essential services for global trade. Flexport specializes in customs brokerage, which includes customs clearances, bonds, product classification, and government agency filings. Its freight forwarding services encompass ocean freight, air freight, and trucking and delivery. Additionally, Flexport offers supply chain services such as cargo insurance, quality inspections, warehousing, fulfillment, product sourcing, and trade finance. By utilizing modern software, Flexport enhances the user experience in global trade, allowing logistics companies to optimize transportation routes and manage inventory effectively. The company's expertise enables businesses to focus on their core operations while ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery of goods to fulfillment and distribution centers.

Ryan Petersen

CEO & Founder

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Protex AI

Series A in 2022
Protex AI using proactive 3rd Gen AI -powered ESHQ Technology empowers health and safety workplace.

Ghost

Series A in 2022
Ghost is the marketplace that connects leading retail brands with surplus distribution partners. Ghost combines real-time data with intelligent solutions to help brands monetize their excess inventory discreetly and sustainably. By providing liquidity, protection, and transparency, the Ghost platform serves as the backbone for retailers to diversify and optimize their inventory lifecycle.

Rider

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a logistics platform designed for online sellers in Pakistan. The company delivers e-commerce products from online stores and marketplaces to the customers' doorstep, also provides cash on delivery and cash now, and delivers later service, enabling vendors to receive payments early and deliver goods to their customers on time.

Clicoh

Series A in 2022
Clicoh is a startup born in Cordoba, Argentina in 2018 that provides fulfillment and logistics solutions through innovation and technology for digital companies in Latam.

Dock

Seed Round in 2022
Dock is building software that enables collaborative workspaces for prospects, customers, investors, and partners. It aims to offer a single destination for companies to work with their external partners in what they call spaces. These spaces host everything in the relationship from product videos to pitch decks to analytics dashboards to project timelines and more.

OnePort 365

Seed Round in 2022
Oneport 365 is a B2B digital freight forwarding platform offering simplified, all-inclusive, and transparent freight forwarding services driven by technology.

Oware

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Oware offers businesses scalable and tech-driven warehousing and distribution for B2B and retail through its connected fulfillment centers and third-party logistics providers. Companies can quickly start operations from one or more locations to reach more customers, unhindered by operationally intense and complex logistics planning and capital investment restricting business growth.

Ninja Delivery

Seed Round in 2022
Ninja Delivery is an e-commerce platform established in 2021 that specializes in rapid delivery services for food, beverages, and household essentials. Utilizing a network of micro-fulfillment centers, the company ensures efficient inventory management and product selection. Its proprietary technology optimizes the delivery process by calculating the shortest routes for drivers, allowing customers to receive their orders in as little as ten minutes. With a focus on convenience, Ninja Delivery caters to the needs of consumers seeking quick access to everyday items.

Airhouse

Series A in 2022
Airhouse, Inc. develops and offers Airhouse, an application for logistics and ecommerce operations. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Freightpay

Seed Round in 2022
Freightpay’s mission is to enable the global supply chain to transact more efficiently.

Emi Labs

Series A in 2022
Emi Labs S.A.S. operates an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform designed to enhance the hiring process for enterprises. Founded in 2017 and based in Vicente López, Argentina, with additional offices in Mountain View, California, and Mexico City, the company focuses on automating key aspects of recruitment, including candidate screening, interview scheduling, and communication. By leveraging AI technology, Emi Labs aims to shorten hiring cycles, improve efficiency, and boost recruiter productivity, all while enhancing the candidate experience and strengthening the employer brand for its clients.

Secureframe

Series B in 2022
Secureframe is a compliance automation platform designed to assist organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with security and privacy standards, specifically SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Founded in 2020 by Shrav Mehta and Natasja Nielsen, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Secureframe's software streamlines the compliance process by offering automated audits and continuous monitoring, ensuring that service providers effectively manage data to protect both organizational interests and client privacy. This platform enables companies worldwide to navigate the complexities of compliance, thereby enhancing their security posture and maintaining adherence to critical global standards.

Anvyl

Series B in 2022
Anvyl is a technology platform that uses data analytics to reinvent supply chain processes, making products better, smarter, and easier. It provides visibility into the manufacturing process and streamlines relationships between reputable brands and world-class manufacturers. It standardizes and automates interactions, negotiates contracts and schedules, tracks production and quality, and provides visual and data updates to ensure on-time delivery. Anvyl's customers include HIMs, Native, S’well, Harry’s, LOLA, and other direct-to-consumer brands. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York.

Amitruck

Seed Round in 2022
Amitruck Limited is a Nairobi-based company that operates a mobile and web-based logistics platform designed to connect cargo owners with trucking professionals. Founded in 2018, Amitruck streamlines the delivery process by allowing customers to book shipments through its online platform. The company has developed a driver application that enables transporters to access client requests and communicate seamlessly. Users can track their deliveries in real time, receive instant quotes, and find the nearest available trucks, ensuring timely updates on their shipments. Amitruck’s innovative approach provides complete visibility throughout the delivery process, enhancing efficiency for both clients and drivers.

Nuvocargo

Venture Round in 2021
Nuvocargo, Inc. is a freight forwarder and licensed customs broker specializing in the transportation of cargo between the United States and Mexico. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company offers standardized and transparent quotes through its network of carriers. Nuvocargo provides a cloud-based dashboard that allows customers to track shipments in real-time, including updates on shipment status, customs clearance, and necessary paperwork. By leveraging technology and extensive logistics experience, Nuvocargo enhances visibility and data accessibility for shippers, improving their understanding of supply chain dynamics.

Ofload

Series A in 2021
Ofload is a digital road freight platform that fully tackles inefficiencies. Ofload connects road freight to thousands of reliable carriers and manage it through technology. This means less waste and more data. Ofload manages end-to-end logistics fulfillment through technology, connects carriers with shippers helping shipments to be delivered quickly and affordably by taking up what would have been empty space in delivery vehicles, allowing businesses to have visibility of their shipments.

Therify

Seed Round in 2021
Therify is an inclusive mental health benefit for companies. Through our web platform, employees access culturally responsive therapists, live community sessions, and self-guided content to support their emotional well-being.

CloudTrucks

Series B in 2021
CloudTrucks develops a virtual trucking carrier application designed to reduce operating costs for truck drivers. The platform helps to manage and book loads from brokers and shippers, offer instant payments after load delivery, and access to cheap insurance options, enabling truck owners and operators to strategize their schedule and design a revenue-maximizing driving program. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Breadfast

Series A in 2021
Breadfast is a Cairo-based company that specializes in the production and online delivery of a wide range of bread and bakery products. Established in 2017, it offers various types of bread, including white, brown, multigrain, and specialty options like baguettes and ciabatta. The company's product line also features sweet and savory pastries such as danishes, muffins in different flavors, and an assortment of croissants. Breadfast aims to provide customers with freshly baked goods delivered directly to their homes each morning, eliminating the need for freezing or defrosting bakery items.

Skydropx

Series A in 2021
Skydropx, Inc. is a logistics marketplace based in Mexico that connects businesses with independent local distributors and shipping providers for efficient product delivery. The company offers a platform that manages and regulates shipments, consolidating volume to provide discounted rates. Its technology integrates seamlessly with users' shopping carts through API, allowing for real-time tracking and management of shipments. By utilizing a network of independent drivers, Skydropx enables companies to send and receive parcels in a streamlined manner, enhancing the overall delivery process.

Sendbox

Seed Round in 2021
Sendbox Software Technologies Limited develops a tech-enabled platform which provides shipping, escrow payments, and discovery services to merchants and customers who carry out e-commerce transactions on social media platforms. Its platform provides services, such as pick up and drop-offs, tracking and notifications, integrations, automatic scheduling and routing, cash handling and remittance, and nationwide delivery services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

PideDirecto

Seed Round in 2021
PideDirecto is a powerful digital ordering and delivery platform that enables any buisness to offer a branded on-demand delivery service to their own clients. We empower local buisness such as restaurants, pharmacies, local grocery stores, flower shops, clothing stores, cake shops and many more by building out their own branded website, integrating phone and social media orders and helping them deliver their products in less than 30 minutes. While also providing our partners key customer insights and marketing support. All for a reasonable fixed monthly fee, without eating up margins with hefty commissions and service charges.

Avenue

Seed Round in 2021
Avenue is a simple way for business teams to set up alerts from their database or data warehouse. Think PagerDuty for business operations teams. Operations teams create set-and-forget alerts on all their data, so they can be more proactive with their time (and monitor on more nuanced triggers than just what fits on their dashboard page). Avenue can improve response times to critical problems from several days to real-time by alerting directly on the data sources that customers already use.

BridgeLinx

Seed Round in 2021
BridgeLinx helps businesses, mainly large manufacturers and retailers, move freight by connecting them with carriers (truckers, owner-operators, transporters, and private fleets) through its online marketplace.

Telegraph

Venture Round in 2021
Telegraph System is a SaaS transportation technology startup leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to digitize a critical segment of the supply chain. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Gembah

Series A in 2021
Gembah, Inc. is a company that specializes in product design, development, and supply chain management services. Founded in 2017 and based in Austin, Texas, Gembah offers a machine learning platform that connects businesses and entrepreneurs with experts throughout the product creation process. Their services encompass factory sourcing, production management, logistics, quality control, and compliance oversight. By providing a comprehensive suite of tools, including custom-assigned designers and engineers, Gembah supports entrepreneurs, e-commerce sellers, and small to midsize businesses in efficiently managing the entire product development journey, from initial concept to market launch. The company aims to simplify and enhance the product creation experience, making it accessible to a broader range of businesses.

Lula

Series A in 2021
Lula operates a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects vehicle owners with individuals seeking to rent those vehicles. It allows vehicle owners to list their vehicles for rent and facilitates direct communication and transactions between owners and renters. Lula does not own or manage the vehicles and does not engage in the contracts formed between owners and renters. Additionally, Lula provides insurance technology solutions tailored for various sectors, including car rental companies and logistics firms. Their offerings include policy management, risk assessment tools, and claims handling services, which help clients streamline their insurance processes and reduce operational costs.

Trella

Venture Round in 2021
Trella is a platform that connects shippers to carriers. Trella offers services and technology to empower drivers, improve their efficiency, boost their earnings and utilization as well as creating job opportunities. Trella aims to reduce costs for shippers, introduce a transparent pricing structure and provide them with a more reliable source of carriers. All the while allowing them to track their shipments in real-time as well as report key insights on their transportation trends and performance.

Tajir

Series A in 2021
Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.

Denim

Series A in 2021
Axle Payments specializes in providing financial solutions to the freight industry, focusing on small freight brokers and their carriers. Founded in 2016 by Shawn Vo and Bharath Krishnamoorthy, the company is headquartered in New York. Axle Payments offers non-recourse factoring and payment processing services, which help brokers and carriers access the working capital they need to operate effectively. In addition to factoring, the company provides integrated payment solutions, collections, and financing options that enhance the efficiency and transparency of financial transactions within the logistics sector. Axle Payments aims to support the sustainability of the global logistics industry through its innovative financial services.

Flextock

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Flextock is a provider of on-demand warehousing and logistics platforms to help businesses efficiently scale their operations.

Flextock

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Flextock is a provider of on-demand warehousing and logistics platforms to help businesses efficiently scale their operations.

Routable

Series B in 2021
Routable is a B2B payments platform built to make bill payments and mass payouts fast and seamless. Unlike other payment platforms, Routable’s modern, easy-to-use API allows you to build a powerful payments infrastructure in minutes.

Crux Systems

Acquisition in 2019
Founded in 2014, Crux Systems provides cargo owners, freight forwarders, and trucking companies real-time status and location of import containers coming into North America, all in one place. This data informs supply chain planning by driving actionable insights that can reduce dwell times, demurrage fees, and hours spent tracking containers. In 2019, Crux Systems joined Flexport to further empower shippers globally with visibility and control over their inventory in motion and unlock lower and more predictable supply chain costs. With a shared vision and commitment to transparency, customer-centricity, and efficiency, Crux Systems and Flexport are building an Operating System for Global Trade with the intention to enable clients to track every container in the world, making global trade even easier for everyone involved.

Fieldbook

Acquisition in 2018
Fieldbook, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, established in 2013. It provides an application designed to help business teams transition from using spreadsheets to a more structured database format. The Fieldbook application allows users to organize data with linked sheets and offers features such as full-screen form views for editing, as well as options to sort, filter, and group information. This user-friendly tool enables teams to track projects and clients effectively, implement data collection workflows, and develop custom content management systems. Fieldbook aims to simplify the creation of custom information tools, making it easier for organizations to manage their data and streamline their operations.