Logistics Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

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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/

Hardware teams burn weeks on procurement. An engineer needs a part. Someone emails five distributors, chases quotes, gets an approval, wires the money, tracks a shipment across three carriers, clears customs, and then nobody knows where the box is or what's actually on the shelf. Waybill runs that entire loop. Send us a part, a spec, or a BOM. We source it, pull quotes, route approvals, pay the supplier, handle freight and customs, track it to your dock, and keep your stock count updated. Take your supply chain for granted. Built by a team that's seen it at LAT Aerospace and WareIQ (YC S20).

Peer is building an AI-native freight brokerage that quotes freight, finds the right trucking companies, tracks shipments, and handles problems from pickup through delivery for shippers.

SpaceFlow is an AI-native procurement services company for businesses that make, move and serve physical goods. We help procurement teams bring more spend under management, execute source-to-contract work and turn identified savings into realized savings without adding headcount or replacing existing systems.

Derya deploys supply chain automations for startups, SMEs, and enterprises that fulfil their entire supply chain function, from prospecting and procurement to distribution of goods. Our mission is to rebuild the supply chain from the ground up, turning one of the world’s hardest coordination problems into an AI native system that moves commodities by being integrated into both the supply chain infrastructure and the customer. We work across robotics, commodities, and food & beverages companies; procuring goods and managing various operation functions for them.

The US Warehouse industry spends $75bn on labor each year. Yet, only 10% of US warehouses have any form of automation, because existing robotics are too expensive and hard to integrate. Manifold deploys autonomous robots that handle picking, loading / unloading, and palletizing — priced by pick. Integration in hours. No upfront costs. No retrofitting. No need to rebuild the operation around the robot. Our mission is to make it easy for any warehouse to adopt robotics.

Donkey is the AI-native trading company. Upload a buying list and we land the whole container at one locked, delivered price, tariffs included. You buy from Donkey: one contract, one company responsible for everything between the factory floor and your door. Our own people check the cartons before the factory gets paid, and the balance is due when the goods are accepted at your dock. Small businesses buy imports through three or four middlemen, each adding 15 to 30 points, because none of them can fill a container on their own. Big enough to buy pallets, never big enough to buy the box. Quotes float with freight, FX and tariffs and live 15 to 30 days. A trading company is rooms of people on the phone with factories, forwarders and brokers. Donkey runs that as one engine. It finds the real factory behind the customs record, stacks duty line by line, packs the container on weight and cube, and returns one number that holds from signature. Next comes the shared container: small buyers fill one box together at container prices, and every container earns better factory terms for the next one. Team in San Francisco and Wuhan, English and Mandarin. If your business buys pallets of anything imported, send us your buying list.

Pango is a platform for e-commerce companies to use natural language to build agents and automate their logistics operations like delivery and returns.

Building robots and training models for automating manipulation in warehouse, starting with e-commerce 3PLs

We deploy robots in warehouses to automate the most demanding job in logistics: unloading loose-loaded containers. Our customers include 3PLs (CEVA, Stord), distributors (DHL, PostNL) and many more logistics companies.

Haladir builds advanced AI systems for logistics. We sit on top of your WMS, TMS and ERP, turning their data into decisions across supply chain planning and execution: solver-grade optimization that decides what should happen, and AI agents that run the workflows. Today's AI brought intelligence. The next frontier is judgement.

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.

Norra helps nursing facilities manage equipment operations. Every year, ~$80 billion are spent on medical equipment like beds, concentrators, and wheelchairs. Nursing facilities continue to operate with zero visibility which leads to $15 billion in equipment waste annually. We use physical trackers and AI agents to eliminate this.

Founded in 2023, GETASAP is a San Francisco–based technology and supply chain infrastructure company transforming fresh produce distribution and freight. GETASAP Fresh provides same-day delivery to thousands of restaurants and retail locations across the USA, sourcing directly from farms internationally and operating global cold-chain infrastructure. It also operates an AI-native freight carrier and brokerage, delivering reliable reefer LTL and FTL services powered by VoiceAI dispatch, optimized scheduling, and real-time operational intelligence.

Maximal is building autonomous systems to plan and move the world's freight. Our first product is a context-aware algorithmic load planning platform for full truckload (FTL) carriers. Our agents plug into a carrier's existing ERPs and communication channels, using that context to generate holistically optimized load plans. The result: carriers earn more revenue-per-mile while spending less time planning. Our founding team * grew up in 3PLs and trucking companies * studied the math behind transportation science at Cornell, Columbia, and USC * developed the technology that optimizes Amazon's distribution and fulfillment center network

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.

Over a million loads move via trucks in the US every day and even in 2026 they are still booked through endless negotiations over calls and emails. Lanesurf solves this with an army of AI agents that find nearby empty trucks, call/email them in parallel, negotiate rates, and book the best available truck. Live Demo: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7394069447327555584/ Our self-improving voice AI stack is built for the messy reality of logistics - noisy calls, compliance checks, constant exceptions and turns them into faster bookings at better margins.

Rebulk builds AI-native software for rail, transload, and bulk operations. We help teams manage railcars and trucks, transloading, maintenance, yard switching, railcar tracking, bulk inventory, documents, customer reporting, and billing. Much of this work still runs on spreadsheets, paper tickets, phone calls, and disconnected legacy systems. That means teams spend too much time entering the same information twice, tracking down paperwork, figuring out where railcars and inventory are, and putting together reports by hand. Rebulk brings that work into modern software built around how each business actually operates. We’ve lived this problem, and we know how to build for it. Warren previously led product at a Series A supply chain software startup, where he worked closely with companies moving and managing bulk commodities. Cole was engineer #3 at Tropic, helping scale it from seed to Series B, and later led engineering at an AI startup. Rebulk runs operations at Venezia Transport, Usher Transport, Cicada Logistics, McDonald Farms, and TransloadX across transloading, rail maintenance, switching, railcar tracking, and bulk inventory.

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.

Flott helps transport and logistics companies run leaner, smarter, and more profitable operations. Flott unifies everything transport and logistics teams need in a single, AI-powered control center—bringing planning, live tracking (gps, fuel, etc), invoicing, and payments into one place and delivering true end-to-end visibility. Flott’s AI agents act as an extension of fleet managers — automating repetitive tasks and optimizing workflows.This lets companies focus on what truly matters: growing the business.

Rally is a financial platform for businesses that operate vehicle fleets. We're starting in Europe, where over €1 trillion is spent annually on fuel, charging, maintenance, and other fleet expenses - most of it still running on legacy networks built in the 1960s. We set a new standard for fleet finance by streamlining payments and automating workflows across bookkeeping, credit, and driver payroll, helping real-world businesses like delivery services, construction crews, and service technicians stay in control and operate efficiently.

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.

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).

Lighthouz is a backoffice AI solution for freight brokers, to automate AP, AR, and Collections. Leading freight brokers are using Lighthouz AI to automate FTL (full truckload) and LTL (less than truckload) freight bill auditing, automatically filing disputes, and invoicing customers. With Lighthouz, 70%-85% emails do not need to be touched by humans. Hence, brokers using Lighthouz are invoicing customers 36% faster, getting paid 5 days sooner, and reducing back office costs by 40%. Lighthouz brings 25+ years of supply chain, logistics, and AI experience to brokers, with a AI Professor from Georgia Tech who taught 1000+ students, and team with PhD and MS in AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science.

Ultra builds practical, general-purpose robots that are deploying—and producing ROI—today. Unlike traditional industrial automation that’s rigid and complex, our robots are zero integration (able to be installed in hours, not weeks) and are highly flexible, capable of quickly learning new tasks and delivering immediate value to customers. Founded by a team of three-time entrepreneurs with a decade of collaboration, Ultra moves fast. We already have robots in the field generating revenue and data, with plans to rapidly scale deployments this year.

Consumer brands run finance and operations across ERPs, commerce platforms, 3PLs, accounting systems, email, and spreadsheets. Because these systems do not share context or complete work, teams still spend hours assembling reports, reconciling numbers, entering orders, monitoring inventory, processing invoices, and chasing exceptions. Problems are often discovered only after they have cost the business time, margin, or revenue. Handled is an AI teammate for finance and operations. It connects to the systems and unstructured information a brand already uses and learns its data, rules, and workflows. Handled answers questions about the business, proactively catches issues, and takes on recurring manual work across financial reporting, inventory, procurement, wholesale order-to-cash, and AP/AR. It works across systems and brings a person in when judgment or approval is required. Handled gives lean teams more operating capacity without adding another tool to manage, more outsourced support, or more headcount.

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

Yondu is creating the robotic workforce of the future starting with logistics automation. We're deploying humanoid robots in the first flexible, drop-in picking automation solution designed for 3PLs.

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.

At Reform, we’re building a platform for building and managing AI agents that perform high-stakes operational work. Some of the most critical industries today run on outdated systems, spreadsheets, and manual processes - creating friction across every handoff, contract, and invoice. We’re rebuilding this infrastructure from the ground up.

Forge manages international logistics for business around the world. We’re an AI native freight forwarder, customs broker, and tariff expert. We’re growing rapidly and support small mom and pop business to the Fortune 1000s, including companies like Allegiant Airlines, Malbon Golf, and R.E.M. beauty. Forge has raised capital from world class investors including Google, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures.

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 runs the operational work across direct-materials sourcing and ordering - from RFQ through invoice - for manufacturers and distributors. It coordinates suppliers, checks orders and invoices against agreed terms, resolves discrepancies, recovers supplier credits, and keeps the ERP current. Working across email, supplier portals, EDI, and ERP systems, Mandel investigates issues and carries out the next steps within your team’s approval rules.

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.

Nowadays is the AI-native platform for corporate meetings and events. Our AI doesn't just assist planners – it does the work. It emails and calls venues, negotiates rates in 22 languages, parses 50-page hotel proposals into clean apples-to-apples comparisons, and surfaces unmanaged meeting spend across your entire org. We work with companies ranging from ones planning one epic company kickoff a year to ones running thousands of meetings through the platform annually. Clients include Google, Airbnb, BlackRock, Anthropic, Pylon, and Mintlify. Unlike legacy platforms like Cvent that bolted AI onto decades-old infrastructure, Nowadays was built from the ground up for the AI era.

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 builds telematics data infrastructure for the commercial fleet industry. Commercial auto insurers and fleet software companies, including industry leaders like Intact Insurance, depend on our platform to access GPS, speeding, and vehicle data from 330+ telematics providers. We recently raised our Series A led by Battery Ventures and are backed by Y Combinator, Golden Ventures, Penske Transportation Solutions, and Intact Private Capital. Our team works together in person in Toronto, combining early-stage speed with late-stage maturity while processing many terabytes of vehicle data every day.

Conduit is the operating system for shipping and receiving. We build software that systemizes the planning and execution of work on the loading dock and in the yard — giving operators real-time visibility, accountability, and automation across every site they run. We're a small team (<20 people) with real traction: 100+ customers, 172% NRR, and zero churn. We're backed by Innovation Endeavors and Y Combinator, and we recently closed a $6M Seed round. We're based in San Francisco and Seattle, and work hybrid. We move fast, give people real ownership early, and build in a way that most companies don't allow — direct customer access, minimal process, and full access to AI tools.

Physical operations still run on fragmented data, manual guard shacks, and paper lists that are difficult to verify. In yards and cross-docks across North America, facilities face surging cargo theft, strict compliance requirements (like CTPAT audits), and expensive labor bottlenecks. Moving from messy gate logs and high-risk manual workflows to fast, secure, autonomous access control usually requires breaking legacy systems or throwing more labor at the problem. Supadock is the multi-agent AI platform for physical logistics operations. We help 3PLs, logistics businesses, and fleets automate facility workflows—starting with the gate. Our agents make sense of visitor credentials, validate documents via bank-grade KYC, identify security gaps, and automate the SOPs needed to secure facility perimeters 24/7, while keeping human oversight for operational exceptions. Under the hood, Supadock is a multi-modal learning engine. We connect intelligence across your entire facility stack—orchestrating phone calls, emails, text messages, documents, cameras, access control gates, and TMS APIs. The system captures live operational context that compounds into a living model of your business, bringing multi-agent AI into physical logistics operations one SOP at a time.

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.

Tank Payments is building modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry. We offer payables automation software for logistics businesses that make hundreds of payments to trucking businesses every day. For trucking businesses, we provide a best-in-class banking platform, designed to meet the unique financial needs of the trucking sector.

Seaflight Technologies has developed a new form of Aerodynamic Flow Control for electrified aircraft that increases range and payload by 30%. That's the same performance improvement you'd get from hopping in a DeLorean to 2035 and coming back with batteries from the future. But it's available today - our tech has been derisked by testing supported by the National Science Foundation, the US Air Force, and the Australian Government. Our first product is a simple fixed-wing large cargo drone that is efficient enough to remove the "green penalty" currently associated with electric aviation. That's a step change from today's conventional platforms. First generation electric aircraft are heavy, expensive, complicated, and limited in terms of range and payload. In the entire history of aviation, that's never been a winning formula. When everyone already has access to the same batteries, materials, and motors, what really makes the difference? The answer is revolutionary aerodynamics, but in a form factor that suits today's operations and manufacturing. Beyond our own drone product line, we have partners across Aerospace helping incorporate our tech into their products. In the future, if you want to have the most efficient and cost-effective flying machine of any description, you'll need Seaflight's Flow Control inside.

Founded in October 2021, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous city, Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service and marketplace where people can purchase their favourite meals from a wide range of restaurants. Whether local or continental, customers can buy food in a few short steps and have it delivered to their doorstep in under 30 minutes. Chowdeck is on a mission to empower restaurants in Africa to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime. Part of our unique offering to the restaurants listed on our marketplace is that we’ll help them grow, and so far, most of the restaurants we work with can boast of this achievement. With their help and the help of an ambitious team of relentless and fearless riders, we’ve delivered over 80,000 meals in the last six months in two major cities in Lagos. We’ve come this far because we’re passionate about understanding the teething pains of delivery service in Africa and believe strongly in a world where ordering a meal is seamless.

We receive any product in 24h anywhere on the planet, but... Why can't we also return & get refunded just as quickly? REVER is a game-changing shopping experience that makes eCommerce returns possible in 2 clicks and refunds in 24h. The REVER team is shaping the future of eCommerce bringing frictionless, superfast and sustainable returns to everyone, anytime, anywhere. Because returning should be as easy as buying. REVER's ambition is to dominate ALL eCommerce post-sale services by creating the world's first global platform for online returns. REVER is currently handling +100M€ in yearly returns, with more than 50M€ in revenues If you are an eCommerce and want to revolutionise your returns experience find out more at: www.itsrever.com