Tuesday, January 7, 2020

"The Ultimate Logistics Startup List"

This piece is five years old but we wanted to do a "Where are they now?" type post sometime this summer so here's what we'll be starting from.

From Freightos, July 23, 2015:
How much do we love freight innovation?

Enough to go through every single article published in the top tech blogs –  Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable and Recode –  since 2007 to count how often articles about logistics startups, freight or cargo were published.

And we found that freight innovation is hot. Really hot.
Freight Innovation Charts
It’s no coincidence that  Transport Intelligence just emailed me an invitation to The Future of Logistics conference. The email subject? “Is disruption ahead for the future of logistics?”
So I spoke to everyone I knew in the field and looked through some other sources (Crunchbase, Jonathan Wichmann’s great list of logistics startups site, CB Insights and more) to come up with the ULTIMATE LIST of disruptive logistics startups.

We LOVE how they’re embracing technology to change logistics and improve the end-user’s life.
Logistics is the prime example of a changing industry – colossal, ripe for disruption and utterly opaque. And it’s about to get hit by a freight train of innovation....
...MUCH MORE