Soma Capital

Soma Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It focuses on investing in seed-stage startups primarily in the software sector, with a particular interest in areas such as B2B SaaS, artificial intelligence, fintech, clean-tech, frontier-tech, prop-tech, cryptocurrency, health tech, and consumer industries. Soma Capital aims to support founders by leveraging insights from its own founding experience. The firm has successfully invested in several high-profile startups, which collectively are valued at over $60 billion, including notable companies such as Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School. Soma Capital operates as a Registered Investment Adviser and targets opportunities across diverse regions, including Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia.

Juan Abundes

Venture Partner

Willem van den Bosch

Investment Partner

Douglas Carney

Investor

Mir Faiyaz

Partner and Head of Growth Investments

Fouad Farhat

Investment Partner

Juliet Fern

Investor

Nikhita Jaaswal

Investment Partner

Taryn Livingstone

Investor

Vishnu Srinivasan

Investor

Past deals in Transport and logistics

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.

Kamion

Seed Round in 2022
Kamion is a technology company founded in 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey, focused on enhancing the logistics market, which significantly contributes to the country's economy. It operates a digital logistics marketplace that provides instant quotes for full truckload (FTL) transportation needs, facilitating quicker processes and collaboration with dependable freight carriers. Kamion offers a range of services, including cargo insurance, process tracking, complete and partial load transportation, and home-to-home delivery. By leveraging technology, Kamion aims to streamline operations, reduce labor requirements, and improve data collection, ultimately enabling shippers to meet their transportation demands more efficiently and at competitive prices.

Nowports

Series C in 2022
Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that enhances the import and export process for businesses and individuals. The platform enables users to manage their shipments in real time, providing features such as instant quotes, product registration, and shipment booking from any port. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Nowports simplifies the logistics involved in freight transportation, ensuring a secure and transparent experience. Additionally, the platform offers real-time tracking of cargo, allowing users to monitor their shipments conveniently and affordably, effectively merging technology with supply chain management.

Dropezy

Funding Round in 2022
Dropezy focus on next-day delivery services for daily essentials such as groceries. Dropezy focuses on micro-delivery services.

Alima

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Neutro simplifies produce procurement for businesses across the Americas, optimized by data-driven operations.

BridgeLinx

Seed Round in 2021
BridgeLinx is a digital freight network and marketplace designed to enhance logistics services for businesses, particularly large manufacturers and retailers. By leveraging machine learning, the platform efficiently connects shippers with various carriers, including truckers, owner-operators, transporters, and private fleets. This connection provides both asset-like reliability and broker-like flexibility, allowing for streamlined shipping processes. Additionally, BridgeLinx offers comprehensive support that includes port operations, documentation, and settlement services, ensuring end-to-end coverage for freight movement. This approach simplifies the logistics chain, enabling carriers to operate more effectively while facilitating the transportation needs of businesses.

TrackChain

Pre Seed Round in 2021
TrackChain connects shippers and carriers on a digital freight platform through data and automation. An intuitive, fully integrated, and easy-to-use system for a freight quote, booking, dispatch, capacity management, load matching, asset tracking, and instant payment settlement, in one place. Taking logistics in a new direction.

TransAstra

Pre Seed Round in 2021
TransAstra is developing breakthrough technologies in the areas of space resources and in-space transportation to enable massive growth to existing space industries and whole new space industries. We lead the world in the technologies to find, prospect, harvest and use space resources. Space resources include water and other valuable materials to be found on asteroids and lunar poles. We know how to extract these resources and use them as rocket propellant to for use in today's commercial satellites and whole new industries including space tourism.

WareIQ

Seed Round in 2020
WareIQ Logistics Private Limited, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, specializes in warehousing, logistics, and e-commerce fulfillment services. The company caters to online-first brands, large retailers, cross-border sellers, and dropshippers, offering a comprehensive solution that integrates warehousing, inventory management, order processing, shipping, and returns management. Through its technology platform, WareIQ connects a nationwide network of fulfillment centers and last-mile couriers, enabling e-commerce businesses to deliver next-day service akin to that of major players like Amazon. This streamlined approach allows clients to efficiently track and manage their inventory, orders, and shipments, enhancing their operational capabilities in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

Forager

Series A in 2020
Forager Group, Inc. is a company that specializes in cross-border freight and logistics services, primarily catering to supply chain networks in the automotive and aerospace sectors. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Forager offers a range of services, including standard, expedited, and cross-border truckload solutions. The company utilizes advanced technology to address the challenges faced by cross-border shippers, providing modern and efficient transportation solutions. Additionally, Forager features a user-friendly web-based transportation management platform that enhances service delivery in the logistics industry. Its operations extend throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

ZeoAuto

Seed Round in 2020
Zeo Auto is a freight management platform based in Mumbai, India, that specializes in tracking and improving fleet operations for commercial vehicles. The platform provides real-time location tracking and integrates with various sensors to monitor critical parameters such as temperature, fuel, and engine status. It assists fleet managers in managing end-to-end operations, which includes capturing orders, assigning drivers, route planning, trip management, and vehicle tracking. Additionally, Zeo Auto offers services like waybill generation to streamline logistics processes. The company aims to be a comprehensive solution for fleet owners by addressing their diverse needs, including load servicing, vehicle maintenance, financing, and insurance.

Bego

Seed Round in 2020
Bego is a cargo company that specialize in container and transport boxes. They have integrated the best providers in their platform in order to offer you the best service to their clients. From the most important banks in Mexico, to the most advanced navigation technology (Google Maps, Waze, and Apple Maps). They offers real-time experience that receives notifications on cell phone and email in real time for each relevant event.

99 Minutos

Series A in 2020
99 minutos is an ecommerce delivery company which operates in Latin America. It provides full conectivity to any ecommerce, with live tracking and quick control. 99minutos is faster, cheaper and more reliable than any delivery company out there.

99minutos

Seed Round in 2020
99minutos provides the fastest shipping for online shopping in Latin America.

AeroVect

Seed Round in 2020
AeroVect Technologies Inc. specializes in developing autonomous cargo handling systems tailored for airports. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on enhancing airside operations through its autonomous ground support equipment (GSE) technology and ground handling management software. AeroVect's innovative solutions utilize advanced technologies such as LiDARs, cameras, radars, and GPS-RTK to improve the efficiency, safety, and reliability of cargo handling at major passenger and cargo hubs globally. By addressing challenges like irregular operations and inefficient equipment utilization, AeroVect aims to streamline baggage and cargo operations, ultimately providing cost-effective solutions for its clients.

Nowports

Seed Round in 2019
Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that enhances the import and export process for businesses and individuals. The platform enables users to manage their shipments in real time, providing features such as instant quotes, product registration, and shipment booking from any port. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Nowports simplifies the logistics involved in freight transportation, ensuring a secure and transparent experience. Additionally, the platform offers real-time tracking of cargo, allowing users to monitor their shipments conveniently and affordably, effectively merging technology with supply chain management.

BlueCargo

Seed Round in 2018
BlueCargo is a predictive algorithm platform that brings visibility to optimize operations in seaport terminals. Their proprietary predictive algorithms streamline container management to increase terminal’s productivity while reducing operational costs and enhancing the quality of the service.

SkydropX

Funding Round in 2018
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.

Returnbase

Seed Round in 2017
Returnbase offers reverse logistics as a service to help retailers sell returned and excess inventory.

Returnbase

Venture Round in 2017
Returnbase offers reverse logistics as a service to help retailers sell returned and excess inventory.

Embark Trucks

Seed Round in 2016
Embark Trucks Inc. develops self-driving truck technology and highway autopilot system for commercial trucking. It designs artificial intelligence software that helps on long haul stretches in the trucking industry. Embark Trucks Inc. was formerly known as Varden Labs Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lugg

Seed Round in 2015
Lugg is building the best way for you to get anything moved. With the push of a button, you are connected to movers and a truck. They make it dead simple to get your new furniture home, your craigslist purchases delivered to you, and moving all of your stuff into your new apartment. They are located in San Francisco, and well-funded by some of the greatest investors in the world, like A Capital, Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, Crunchfund, and Y Combinator. They are a small team with incredibly hard problems to solve. They are hiring and would love to hear from you! hello@Lugg.com Download Lugg and let them be your friend with a truck! http://lugg.com

ShipHawk

Series A in 2014
Headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., ShipHawk is shipping software for high volume shippers. Most businesses spend a ton of time and money trying to ship orders more efficiently. ShipHawk’s shipping software helps automate order fulfillment and eliminate worker decisions so businesses can take control of their warehouse operations. To learn more about ShipHawk, please visit https://shiphawk.com.

Omni

Seed Round in 2014
Omni Projects, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers on-demand storage services and rental solutions for local residents. Founded in 2014, Omni provides a platform that allows users to manage their physical belongings seamlessly. The company picks up items from customers' premises, stores them securely, and catalogs them with photographs and descriptions, enabling users to retrieve their belongings through a mobile application without visiting a storage facility. In addition to storage, Omni partners with local businesses to facilitate a rental service, allowing customers to access various items, such as bikes, surfboards, and camping equipment. Users can reserve these items for immediate pickup or schedule rentals in advance, enhancing community access to essential goods.
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