Cartage Alternatives

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Pax

Logistics

Pax uses AI to automate tariff refunds (aka duty drawback) for retailers and manufacturers. We launched 4 weeks ago and have ~$200K in contracts. Each year, 80% of eligible refunds, equivalent to $15B, go unclaimed. Pax is the first AI-powered broker helping brands under $50M reclaim 3-5% of their revenue. Our algorithms generate 15% more refunds than the industry leader and reduce processing time by 99% with AI. We are two technical founders: Penny got her PhD from MIT and, and was a former research scientist at Amazon & Flexport, where I encountered the problem firsthand. Chris is a second-time founder and former software engineer at Amazon, Brex, and TikTok.

Rickshaw is a local delivery platform that partners with courier companies and delivers several goods, including laundry, gifts, office snacks, and meal subscriptions. It uses algorithms and mobile apps to dispatch, route, and track customer locations. The service is available from Monday to Friday from 7.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. Rickshaw was launched by Divya Bhat and Gautam Jayaraman.

Founded in 2013, we believe trade can move the human race forward. That’s why our mission at Flexport is to make global trade easy for everyone. What the internet has done for bits and bytes, Flexport is doing for physical goods: giving every business the ability to connect to any customer, wherever they are in the world. That sounds pretty straightforward, but a fragmented and inefficient global supply chain has held the world back from untapped growth and innovation. By connecting everyone in the global economy we can unlock commerce, creativity, and human progress. To do so, we’re building the platform for global logistics, empowering buyers, sellers and their logistics partners with the technology and services they need to grow and innovate. Today, we work with more than 40,000 customers and their suppliers across industries like manufacturing, retail, electronics, consumer goods, tech, apparel, and beauty. Companies of all sizes, from emerging brands to Fortune 500s, used Flexport technology to move nearly $19B of merchandise across 112 countries in 2021. Interested in joining our team? Check out our open job postings on careers site and apply directly today! https://www.flexport.com/careers/jobs/

AptDeco is a peer-to-peer managed marketplace dedicated for buying and selling quality used furniture. We offer a complete end-to-end process to bring back the joy of discovering amazing furniture finds for the home again. Our customers benefit from a trusted and verified community of buyers and sellers, pre-arranged pick up and delivery and a secure electronic payment process.

EasyPost is the missing API that makes it quick and painless to integrate shipping into your application. Some of the biggest names in retail rely on EasyPost to ship faster, smarter and cheaper. We manage the headaches involved with dated carrier technology so our customers can focus on what makes their business great. Integrate once with EasyPost and seamlessly add carriers, generate shipping labels, track packages in near real-time and insure your shipments. EasyPost is growing fast! Check out our jobs page and join the excitement: https://www.easypost.com/jobs

Cheetah is a SaaS solution focused on Logistics, Supply Chain. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, Cheetah offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

Gander is building AI-powered technology that allows private jet operators to coordinate, maintain, and monetize their fleets all in one place.

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VortexifyAI

Logistics

Vortexify AI is a platform for building fully operational AI workflows tailored to supply chain operations. Deploy specialized, task-specific AI bots in days, not weeks. Our platform streamlines the creation of AI bots that can analyze millions of data rows, manage complex, long-horizon processes, and collaborate seamlessly with humans in the loop. Each AI bot comes equipped with custom tools maintained through AI-powered code editors directly within the Vortexify platform. Development teams can instantly generate dashboards, data pipelines, machine learning models, and custom functions, all contextualized to business goals and data requirements. Bots can operate in Co-pilot or Agent (autonomous) mode. They can be scheduled or triggered by real-time alerts and are governed by robust, natural language-generated guardrail templates that ensure safety, compliance, and reliability.

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Getcho

Logistics

Getcho is a local delivery platform for high-value goods. We are building a high-reliability delivery network on top of high-volume, unreliable fleets, just like how TCP builds reliable end-to-end networking on top of an unreliable base network (IP).

Oway is an AI-driven freight platform that turns America’s empty truck space into a new category of freight shipping. Every year 50% of U.S. truck space goes unused, a $100B+ inefficiency. Oway uses AI to automatically price, match, and sell that space in real time, giving businesses freight shipping that is dramatically faster and cheaper than traditional options. We're building the largest decentralized network of America’s empty truck space - a transparent infrastructure layer any shipper, broker, or carrier can plug into. For shippers, this means freight costs that are up to 50% lower than traditional LTL (shipments from 1 to 12 pallets), along with faster delivery windows because freight moves directly from dock to dock without the slow handoffs, warehouses, or cross-docking infrastructure that LTL depends on. For carriers, Oway’s integration can increase annual revenues by up to 30% with minimal impact on existing schedules. They simply earn more by monetizing space that would have gone unused. Our mission is to transform empty truck space into an asset that strengthens U.S. competitiveness. By lowering the cost of goods sold, we help businesses grow. By improving carrier margins, we make trucking more sustainable. And by digitizing and decentralizing freight, we are laying the foundation for a resilient, transparent logistics layer that can support America’s reindustrialization in the decades ahead. Oway makes freight shipping as simple as ridesharing - click a button, book a truck, and move goods at the true cost of available capacity.

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Carma

Logistics

At Carma, we’re revolutionizing the fleet management space by building a massively simplified experience for commercial fleet operators to receive same-day repair and maintenance for any vehicle with real-time, transparent quotes from highly-vetted service center partners with a guaranteed 24-hour turnaround. Fleet operators face the challenging task of keeping hundreds or thousands of vehicles on the road cost-efficiently with minimal downtime. Our platform solves this precise problem, powering operations for our fleet customers with every tool needed for modern fleet management - real-time service tracking, cost verification, diagnostics visibility, and so much more. We are tackling an enormous market, worth $177 billion in the United States alone. We're growing very rapidly and are looking for superstars to join us on our rocketship growth as we relentlessly work towards building a multi-billion dollar company to take over the outdated fleet management market. Join us if you're eager to make a significant impact and be part of an explosive-growth startup from the ground up.

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Panora

Logistics

Panora automates PO entry for distributors, manufacturers and wholesalers. Stop wrong shipments, block duplicates, reclaim ~80% of your order-entry time.

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Lighthouz AI

Logistics

Lighthouz AI's AI agents solve the biggest problems in logistics - AR and AP! 3PLs, brokers, factors, and carriers lose billions every year to slow invoicing, manual invoice audits, and billing disputes. Manual AP & AR processes create errors, disputes, cash flow bottlenecks, late fees, hurting everyone in the logistics supply chain. 🚛 The Problem: - Factors: Auditing and verifying carrier invoices, timely invoicing - 3PLs & Brokers: Verifying carrier invoices, creating own invoices, and handling disputes and chargebacks. - Carriers: Timely invoicing, Submitting correct and complete paperwork, Dealing with late payments, incorrect deductions, and manual paperwork. - Shippers: Struggling with invoice error identification and resolution, delaying payments. 📉 The Impact: The U.S. freight industry processes over $1.2 trillion in transactions annually, yet 25% of freight invoices contain errors, leading to payment disputes and delays. 🔹 Our Solution is an AI agent that automates invoice audits, rate verifications, invoicing, and collections in the logistics industry. With Lighthouz AI agents, businesses 10x their AR and AP processes.

We are building a safer supply chain. Cargo Theft has been increasing yearly, and the supply chain industry is urgently looking for ways to solve this. Using experience fighting fraud at the largest delivery marketplaces and logistics tech companies, we are building solutions to stop Cargo Theft and improve profit margins and revenue for warehouses and freight brokers.

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RetailReady

Logistics

Every time workers in a warehouse box an order, they reference a 100 page manual with instructions like where to put the shipping label. RetailReady replaces the instruction manual with a tablet application.

Forge helps companies recover tariffs and duties paid on imported goods that are later exported or scrapped by automating a process called duty drawback. Billions of dollars of eligible refunds go unclaimed every year. We take full ownership of the process from organizing data to filing claims so businesses can unlock this extra revenue with minimal effort.

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Reform

Logistics

Automate freight operations from quote to cash without replacing your trusted systems.

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CommodityAI

Logistics

CommodityAI builds intelligent automation agents for some of the most operationally complex businesses in the world: physical commodity traders. In trading operations, critical data is often buried in spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, and legacy systems, making workflows slow, error-prone, and overly manual. CommodityAI acts as a digital operator, continuously reading, interpreting, and updating information across the trade lifecycle to keep records accurate and systems in sync. Our agents extract and validate key details from trade confirmations, contracts, vessel updates, and more, turning scattered, unstructured data into clean, structured records that flow directly into CTRMs, ERPs, and other core platforms. No manual entry required. By automating what others still do by hand, we help trading teams move faster, reduce risk, and focus on the decisions that matter most.

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Triply

Logistics

Triply (Formerly Tripitaca) is the operating system for travel businesses in Africa. We eliminate operational chaos by unifying payments, Invoicing, payroll, accounting, operations, and more into a single platform allowing travel businesses to execute and sell more efficiently.

Manifold is revolutionizing the spot freight procurement process for Carriers, Brokers, and Shippers. Our inaugural product transforms the booking process for spot shipments, significantly reducing empty miles and increasing revenue. We do this by aggregating spot shipment opportunities from a variety of shipper and brokerage sources into a single location. Andrew and Oliver bring deep domain expertise of freight from their pivotal roles at Convoy, where they were engineering leaders automating processes that were scaled to handle over 10,000 weekly shipments. This background has been instrumental in shaping Manifold's innovative approach. In just two months since launching Manifold has achieved $5,100 in monthly revenue, showcasing the pressing demand for our product. Manifold is poised to transform this $100+ billion industry. Not only will we streamline spot freight procurement operations but we will also redefine the industry's cost structure for the better.