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World Model for Freight

Ekho predicts the wars, strikes and tariffs that break global shipping, and tells freight teams which shipments are exposed and what to do about them. Predicting escalation is what our team did for eight years before this - now we bring the same engine to logistics.
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Alina Park
Alina Park
Founder/CEO
Founder at Ekho Labs. Previously Founding Engineer at Inca Digital, where she built a DARPA-funded AML platform, deployed across DoD, CFTC, PayPal, and more. Awarded Innovator of the Year by CFTC, prev. built Yachay AI, achieving state-of-the-art text-based geolocation (30km median error, 80+ languages). Guest speaker at Columbia MBA and Stanford Engineering.
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Ekho Labs - Forecasting Supply Chain Disruptions
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TLDR:

Companies with global supply chains lose money to every small disruption. Ekho makes sure they don't.

Problem:

Manufacturing means choosing suppliers, booking transport, and keeping pulse on new tariffs - to make sure your production is fine. Companies tend to find out about disruptions when things break and cost them millions.

Solution:

Ekho customers get an early warning AND optimal solution 1-3 weeks ahead of the events. So ships keep moving, production lines keep running, and customer promises get kept.

I used to build signal detection systems for DARPA. Now that same type of engine watches 1M+ sources for the industry our phones, food, and clothes depend on - Supply Chains. What you get:

  • Freight forwarders: container-level forecasts. We’ll tell you what happens, when, and what to do while freight is still available and cheap. Your clients hear about the disruption from you, not from the news.
  • Manufacturers and retailers: you know which inbound materials will miss the production run, launch, or retailer order - and the cheapest fix, from expediting to switching suppliers or lanes.

Proof we’re cool:

  1. When the Strait of Hormuz closed in February, we correctly predicted ceasefire dates, duration, and next steps in the war (https://ekholabs.com/blog/the-hormuz-brief/)
  2. We already work with large global companies

Ask

Intro us to Supply Chains VPs/COO at a retail (Target, Walmart, etc.), manufacturing (Fashion, Electronics, Food, etc.), or Freight Forwarding companies.

Email: alina@ekholabs.com

Website: https://ekholabs.com/

My hilarious twitter: https://x.com/olenyapark

Ekho Labs
Batch:Summer 2026
Status:
Active
Location:New York City, NY
Primary Partner:Ankit Gupta