Startups

As enterprise retailers add regional carriers, 3PLs and gig couriers, Burq is pitching one layer to route, monitor and redispatch every order before the delivery promise breaks.

The freight platform moved $9 billion in invoices and built its agentic layer inside its own TMS rather than bolting one on, betting that freight context is the real moat.

HappyRobot has raised about $200 million in 20 months, grown 5x since its Series B, and now runs AI agents inside more than 150 enterprise customers, from DHL to LKW WALTER.

Terminal closed a $20 million Series A led by Battery Ventures, betting that one API reaching 325 telematics providers beats the integrations insurers and fleets build one at a time.

Field Ventures led the seed round. Freight Hero charges brokers a flat fee per load and says AI agents handle more than 90% of customer load touches, with human operators on the rest.

myMechanic’s Dealer-Connect bridges the gap between telematics alerts and slow roadside execution, replacing phone handoffs with orchestrated digital dispatch and updates.

Class 8 analyzed more than 3.2 million truck unload events across 68,340 commercial vehicles using a three-stage detection pipeline that combines vehicle weight telemetry, satellite imagery and behavioral analysis. The study classified nearly 42,600 unload events as High or Critical risk and, according to CEO Chris Atkinson, has been validated against a statistically significant number of confirmed cargo theft investigations

EDI has been broken for 40 years,” said Erik Kiser, founder and CEO. “Not because the problem was unsolvable, but because no one was willing to rebuild it from the ground up.

Boston-based Teradar recently announced a paid technical evaluation program with a top German automaker for its terahertz vision technology. The milestone represents a key step forward for Teradar’s flagship Summit sensor. The sensor will be tested against edge cases that continue to expose the limitations of cameras, lidar and radar. These include detecting a fallen […]

Stord investors have provided more funding to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in the company’s e-commerce fulfillment centers, bringing the total amount raised to nearly $800M over the past decade.

With its $95M raise, Loop is building the foundational data platform that turns trapped operational data into strategic decisions across logistics, finance and supply chain.

The AI productivity platform has acquired stealth startup Merlin, a stealth AI company focused on wholesale distribution

Grant Goodale, CPTO at Ryder System, breaks down the four waves of logistics tech and shares what the company’s Baton innovation lab is building next.

Humble Robotics emerges from stealth with $24M seed funding and the Humble Hauler, a cabless autonomous electric truck for dock-to-dock freight.

Two Boxes has raised $3.2 million to help scale its AI-powered returns platform as retailers grapple with rising fraud and costly reverse logistics.

The era of software as a moat is over. The era of “vibe coding” has begun. To find out what that means for logistics, FreightWaves interviewed John Loser, co-founder and general partner of Floating Point Advisors. For Floating Point Advisors, an early-stage venture fund, the real opportunity lies in backing founders who can rebuild entire […]

Global Crossing Airlines has parked two Airbus freighter aircraft because business has dried up.

Cart.com, an e-commerce services company, has raised $180 million in growth capital from Springcoast Partners.

Einride raised $113 million in an oversubscribed PIPE that surpassed its $100 million target, bringing total committed investments to $213 million and positioning the Swedish company for a 2026 NYSE debut under the ticker ENRD.

Most AI freight tech will be easily copied and face pricing wars, says Autotech Ventures’ Burak Cendek. At Manifest 2026 he laid out the firm’s focus on defensible plays and robotics