Supply Chain and Logistics Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Nowports is the first digital Freight Forwarder shipping ocean containers to and from Latin America. One out of every two containers gets lost or delayed due to miscommunication and lack of management. The platform reduces human mistakes to 0% and saves up to 40% of delays with Nowports models and algorithms. Nowports assist companies so moving ocean containers is fast, simple and secure.

GrubMarket is the AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American Food Supply Chain industry. Our mission is to build and provide the eCommerce and software technologies to this industry, to transform this completely offline and highly manual industry into modernized online industry powered by software technologies, and improve the efficiency of American food supply chain.

ShipBob is a leading global fulfillment and supply chain platform designed for SMB and Mid-Market ecommerce brands. ShipBob provides brands a single view of their business and customers across sales channels to manage products, inventory, orders, and shipments, leveraging real-time analytics and reporting, dedicated support, and access to hundreds of technology and retail partners. ShipBob enables brands to improve the operations in their own facilities with ShipBob WMS (ShipBob's proprietary warehouse management system), and/or outsource fulfillment to have their orders picked, packed, and shipped from any of ShipBob’s 50+ fulfillment centers across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Founded in 2014, ShipBob launched through Y Combinator by co-founders Dhruv Saxena and Divey Gulati, two ecommerce entrepreneurs who saw a need for more efficient SMB supply chain services. Learn more by visiting shipbob.com.

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/

Supply chains still run on spreadsheets and inboxes because ERPs are rigid and the data is messy. We're solving this problem by building an ontology where agents can operate and provide outcomes for our customers. We start with procurement, by automating three-way match: extracting supplier invoices from email and matching them to the correct PO and receipt across ERPs. Learn more at pollinate.tech

We're building for the people that keep the world moving. Freight brokers and forwarders operate on razor-thin margins in a relationship-driven business — yet most of their teams spend the majority of their day on manual, repetitive work. We help freight brokers and forwarders build AI teammates that handle their repetitive, manual tasks so teams have time to focus on customers, carriers, and growing the business.

We build AI that runs carrier operations. Lunavo is the AI assistant for carriers. It plugs directly into their existing toolstack, understands their processes, and monitors all incoming data and requests. Lunavo runs end-to-end backoffice operations, handling repetitive tasks, resolving issues autonomously, and escalating only what matters. Lunavo helps carriers scale operations without scaling headcount.

MarkIt builds AI agents that work directly inside the workflows trade professionals use every day — Excel, PDFs, broker portals, and more. From defensible classification, ACE report audits, and a self-updating system of record, it serves trade professionals end to end with agents intelligent enough to work in the complex environment. MarkIt brings reasoning, memory, and automation to global trade compliance, helping Suppliers, Brokers, and OEMs reduce errors, save time, and streamline operations in the growingly intense world of Global Trade.

Prox is building digital co-workers for 3PLs and fulfillment centers - companies that store, pack, and ship for brands. We automate back-office operations layer that burns billions of labor hours across the industry.

Fresh-produce supply chains are built around guesswork. Growers plant without clear demand signals, distributors overbuy to protect against shortages, and retailers end up eating the waste. GETASAP fixes this by rebuilding distribution around real demand and fast execution. We deliver wholesale fresh produce with 8-hour same-day delivery, using micro-fulfillment centers positioned close to demand so we can operate with far less safety stock. Behind the scenes, we look at live retail sales, purchasing, and waste patterns to decide what to source, where to place inventory, and when to replenish. That lets us buy closer to actual demand, turn inventory faster, and materially reduce spoilage. For retailers, GETASAP replaces procurement teams and fragmented supplier management—we handle sourcing, inventory decisions, and fulfillment end to end as a single, reliable partner. As more volume flows through the network, demand becomes clearer, sourcing gets smarter, and the operation becomes cheaper and more predictable over time.

Today, commercial trucking fleets make planning and dispatch decisions on gut feel and legacy tooling. Palace lets planning and dispatch teams unify their driver, operations, and freight data so they can optimize their load plans in less time. Leeds and Derek have been building together as close friends for over six years. The team have been early PMs/engineers at exited startups and decacorns and worked on the algorithms that power Amazon’s distribution centers.

Food Supply Chain companies have been using legacy ERPs for decades. Everyone knows these are necessary evils that essentially run the business but take up a lot of operational capacity. They are not about to just rip and replace their existing system that runs their whole business with a system that takes years to implement. Imagine if they could implement AI that runs the ERP for them, in weeks? Burnt’s building an agentic OS for the Food Supply Chain with AI Agents for each department. Our AI Agent, Ozai, has started by replacing the whole order management job function at food distribution companies, so that sales and customer service teams can focus on what matters - the customer. Ozai monitors all incoming messages (emails, phone calls, voicemails, whatsapp, fax etc.), figures out if it's an order, learns each customer's habits, shorthand, and favorite products, picks up on any prep notes, and enters it straight into the existing ERP. It'll even go back to the customers on your behalf when it's not sure about something, clarify things and carry on working. The more it sees, the smarter it gets.

Fleetline is building the first complete-context algorithmic load planner for mid to large-sized trucking fleets. Today’s dispatchers face an overwhelming task: balancing regulations, customer demands, live fleet data, and individual driver needs, all while coordinating across siloed tools and teams. Mistakes run rampant, and each mistake is thousands of dollars. Even the select fleets using algorithms that have fleet-wide context struggle: the outputs are rigid, hard to interpret, and are blind to real-world nuances like driver preferences and schedule exceptions. Fleetline solves this by combining advanced optimization with LLMs that can easily adapt algorithms to each fleet’s needs and capture driver-specific information. The result is smarter planning truly optimized for every fleet and its drivers.

We build AI agents that automate order processing for industrial distributors and manufacturers. Say goodbye to inside sales and customer service teams spending hours on manual data entry. Comena streamlines order and quote entry, from inbox to ERP, freeing up sales teams to focus on high-value activities and proactive selling.

dScribe AI uses autonomous drones and 3D vision to track bulk inventory. We're starting by helping the ag and mining industry track stockpiles of grain and gravel. Bulk inventory tracking is broken. Companies either rely on guesstimates or pay for expensive manual surveys which are still off by 30 to 50%. Without accurate numbers, it’s hard to plan logistics, like how many truckloads are needed. And it creates accounting issues by misreporting inventory value, hurting financial planning and leading to missed opportunities. We’ve lived this problem, and we know how to solve it. Warren saw it firsthand as a Product Manager at Milk Moovement, a $20M Series A AgTech startup, working closely with feed suppliers and farm managers. Cole was engineer #3 at Tropic, scaling it from seed to Series B, and later led engineering at an AI startup. We’ve built an integrated hardware and software platform and have signed one of the largest agricultural company in North America. As industries demand real-time visibility into the physical world, dScribe AI is positioned to become the system of record for inventory that don’t fit in traditional boxes and barcodes.

Next-generation truck management software to automate back-office operations for trucking companies. Features include AI agents to automate inbound/outbound calls, AI document upload to reduce manual data entry, load sourcing tools, automated accounting, and more.

chrt is a logistics platform for time-critical shipping. We enable businesses to deliver their most critical items same-day. Time-Critical Logistics is a $30B market growing at a 20% CAGR driven by growth in American healthcare and manufacturing. Businesses that place time-critical orders are enterprises who have urgent items they need to deliver ASAP. These orders are critical in nature and often require white glove service -- think therapeutic treatments for healthcare providers or specialized equipment for manufacturers. chrt builds the software for forwarders and professional couriers who pick up and deliver these orders. Couriers use chrt to coordinate and track their shipments, including a driver app and fleet management tools. Forwarders use chrt to dispatch couriers, book flights, and track time-critical orders from start to finish. Shippers use chrt to place these orders with their providers and to monitor everything. In addition, we also sell physical tracking devices that can be used to track valuable cargo or assets. This gives us full control of the shipment and allows us to provide shippers with end-to-end tracking. It also allows us to intervene early if we notice something is going wrong. We’re software engineers that became friends years ago at McKinsey. Kyle is an expert in Time-Critical Logistics, having led strategy at a leader in the space. Aaron is an expert at designing and implementing AI systems to handle complex coordination. We were shipping code together on nights and weekends for years before chrt; now we’re also shipping freight.

Lumari enables supply chain teams to streamline operations with always-on agents that monitor, coordinate, and take action from sourcing to delivery.

Ovlo is a no-code AI platform for supply chain teams, building custom agents that automate critical workflows like demand forecasting, compliance validation, invoice reconciliation, and inventory optimization to eliminate manual errors and supercharge efficiency. As an AI layer connecting onto of your current tech stack, even email and Sheets, it creates streamlined end-to-end processes, empowering teams.

Trava is building AI agents for global trade compliance. Importers lose billions each year to duty overpayments and filing errors. Trava audits customs entries and automates classification to help importers protect margins and stay compliant at scale.

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.

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).

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.

Distributors & Manufacturers use Soff to grow revenue through Soff's sales agents that process quotes, orders and handles all communication with customers, co-workers & suppliers.

Spherecast is building Agnes, the AI Supply Chain Manager for Consumer Goods. Agnes decides what to produce, where to make it, and how to move it through factories, warehouses, and channels – simulating thousands of options in seconds and executing the best plan. We are building Agnes to shape the physical flow of goods in the world, turning it into something as programmable as code. When we succeed, every consumer product you touch will run on the Spherecast stack – planned in the Spherecast OS, executed over Spherecast Rails, and optimized by the shared Spherecast Network. Oracle turned atoms into bits. Spherecast turns bits back to atoms, but globally optimized. Be part of the next $T company.

Poka Labs is developing an AI platform to automate operations tasks in chemical manufacturing, beginning with production scheduling. Traditionally, these tasks are performed manually using spreadsheets. Our software seamlessly integrates with existing data sources such as data historians, emails, and PDFs to automate analytics, scheduling, changes, and communication within a single platform. Malay and Andrew met while pursuing their MBAs at Harvard Business School. Malay previously worked as an engineer in the specialty chemical industry, saving his employers over $100 million across US, China, and German plants. Andrew worked as a software engineer on data infrastructure at Meta and optimization problems at a seed-stage startup. He also completed a Masters degree at Harvard specializing in Machine Learning.

Terra empowers creators and brands to design, sample, and bring their own products to market. Creators keep 100% of profits above manufacturing cost — all with no upfront cost or minimums, while manufacturing, fulfillment & logistics are handled in full.

Cartage is the future of freight coordination. Transparent, tech-driven and eliminating the need for human coordinators.

Distro is the all-in-one AI-powered sales platform for counter staff and inside sales at industrial wholesale distributors (HVAC/R, plumbing, electrical, and more).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

FleetWorks is rebuilding the $1 trillion freight marketplace with AI. Every year, companies spend over a trillion dollars moving freight across the U.S. — but the system for matching trucks with jobs is still slow, manual, and fragmented. FleetWorks is fixing that. We’re turning today’s chaotic freight market into a modern, intelligent marketplace — one where AI agents replace the endless phone calls, texts and emails and match jobs to trucks instantly.

Mandel surfaces supply chain disruptions and supplier updates with email AI. We use AI agents that proactively extract data and email suppliers for order updates, building a real-time self updating supply chain source of truth.

truemetrics helps logistics companies to find their customer's faster. By detecting and mapping entrances, we help GLS, a key logistics company in Europe, save 32.7 seconds on each delivery. The way couriers navigate is broken. “You Have Arrived At Your Destination!” — or so Google Maps thinks. In reality, the way couriers navigate is broken: No parking, hard-to-find entrances, and labyrinth-like apartment and office complexes can turn the last meters of delivery into a time-consuming puzzle. truemetrics provides parking positions and entrance locations to enable faster drop-offs. Our data is generated by analyzing sensor data from drivers' smartphones, allowing truemetrics to identify precise parking and entrance locations, thereby simplifying the last meters of delivery.

Guac accurately forecasts grocery demand to help supermarkets order and produce the right amount of inventory — reducing food waste and increasing availability.

HappyRobot is the AI-native operating system for the real economy, closing the circuit between intelligence and action. By combining real-time truth, specialized AI workers, and an orchestrating intelligence, HappyRobot manages complex, mission-critical work with true autonomy. Acting as a central brain, the OS compounds intelligence over time, optimizes decisions at every level, and continuously improves as it operates. Starting with supply chain and industrial-scale operations, HappyRobot enables enterprises to run with greater resilience and speed, while humans focus on strategy, creativity, and values.

Terminal is Plaid for telematics data in commercial trucking. Companies building next generation insurance products, financial services and fleet software for trucking use our Universal API to access GPS data, speeding data and vehicle stats. Raghav (CEO) and Connor (CTO) led product and engineering at a series b-funded neobank where they spent 2.5 years integrating middleware APIs like Plaid & Stripe. Before that, Connor spent 3 years building software for his family-owned logistics company which was acquired by a private equity firm. Raghav’s family is in fleet operations and owns an HVAC company in San Francisco where they operate a fleet of 13 commercial vehicles.

Ekho's end-to-end vehicle commerce platform powers compliant, digital sales of titled vehicles. Our platform handles checkout, financing, titling, registration, signature collection, and taxes—so dealers and OEMs can sell nationwide with a seamless, Tesla-like experience. Dealers use Ekho Dealer as a “dealership-in-a-box” to capture online sales and automate in-store deals without needing large back-office teams, while OEMs use Ekho Access and Omni to extend their reach and unify dealers across sales channels.

Vooma is the AI agent for logistics. We help our customers automate manual tasks and focus on work that drives business value. Mike built self driving trucks as a founding engineer at Kodiak Robotics (prev. Uber, Otto) and led their motion planning and safety teams. Jesse grew a private equity backed logistics software company from $2M to $20M+ as CEO.

Coperniq is workflow software for solar & energy contractors. It cuts soft cost per installation by $3K (17% of total cost) & accelerates project completion by 45 days (30% of project timeline). We replace Salesforce, spreadsheets, pencil-&-paper, & other hacky workarounds with an industry-specific application for the underserved energy workforce. Main benefits for our customers 1. Finish projects faster and cheaper: Our platform cuts 17% of soft costs, allowing contractors to deploy more projects, faster, and cheaper, with 5-star customer experience every time 2. Turn costly (often unprofitable) service calls into a revenue engine: By integrating with hardware OEMs (Enphase, SolarEdge, etc...), Coperniq gives you real-time health checks for your install base, automates service tickets, & drives referral revenue Coperniq does all this and much more in one beautiful platform! Are you or someone you know running or thinking about starting a solar company? [Schedule a call with us :)](https://calendly.com/coperniq-sales/discovery-web-v2 )

Dock Scheduling, Yard Management, Driver Sign In, and more. We make software for warehouses and logistics teams to save time and money managing docks, gates, and yards. With dock, gate, and yard management modules, each module can easily be added on or used on its own. This makes Conduit the perfect fit for all types of operations. Best of all, if you have multiple facilities then Conduit can be configured differently at each facility, but provide you with a comprehensive view of your entire network. We are proud to be able to help supply chains of all sizes optimize their labor, increase throughput, and prepare for the work ahead.

Supadock builds AI workers for logistics operations. In freight, every call, document, and signature exists to prove diligence — not just save time. Check calls, proof-of-delivery reconciliations, ID verification, and invoice audits all ensure compliance, reduce liability, and protect margins. Supadock automates these high-accountability workflows while ensuring accuracy, compliance, and risk reduction. Our AI agents use cameras, voice, email, and document processing to handle tasks like verifying driver IDs, coordinating warehouse entry, assigning shipments to carriers, checking freight status, reconciling pickup and delivery paperwork, and following up on late invoices.

Trackstar is the Plaid for supply chain logistics. Our universal API provides a simple and well-documented way for companies to integrate with hundreds of warehouse management systems ("WMS") in minutes, not months.

Sirdab is a tech-ops focused startup offering cloud warehousing and transportation / logistics solutions. We have built an end-to-end logistics platform that allows businesses to acquire dry, ambient, chilled and frozen warehousing space within 48 hours as well as manage, optimize and distribute inventory via a single platform.

Trebu helps logistics companies to reliably detect and structure incoming sales orders by scanning and interpreting the thousands of incoming Whatsapp messages and emails they receive every day. For example, we help a logistics broker to double the amount of daily reported shipment requests by automatically detecting messages asking for a shipping service and transferring the details into a structured database.

Turkey is MENA’s largest economy, with ~850,000 independent truckers and a logistics market of 73 Billion USD. However, in its current state, freight forwarding for trucking relies on many phone calls, emails, and f2f conversations. Trucking is also fragmented, with SME fleets having ~95% market share. Kamion is the Uber for Trucks for Turkey. We connect businesses that are looking for trucks, with trucks that are looking for loads. We also utilize technology to do more with fewer people and collect data.

Shipmates is a shipping platform that enables online business owners to book on-demand and standard orders using multiple couriers in the Philippines. An alternative to the hassles of manual booking and shipping. Shipmates helps e-commerce businesses grow by making their shipping process easier and faster. Launched in 2021, Shipmates was engineered to simplify logistics and scale businesses by allowing business owners to book shipments in bulk from different couriers in just a few clicks. Users have the option to connect their Shopify website to our platform or upload their orders using an excel file. Shipmates is currently in partnership with six couriers: Lalamove, Borzo, Grab, XDE, Entrego, and J&T as we work on adding more courier options. The platform also allows for nationwide shipping, Cash on Delivery and free courier pick-ups for the convenience of business owners. We believe that online businesses deserve more support for shipping which is why we built solutions through continuous product development and simplicity in design.