Roadmap to Innovation: Freight Tech Investments with John Larkin

John Piper sits down with John Larkin, a well-respected financial analyst turned investor in the transportation space, to discuss the explosion in freight tech and some companies to watch.  Here is a list of several companies mentioned.  


Venture 53 https://www.venture53.com/ A venture capital fund focused on early-stage transportation and logistics software companies creating efficiencies for carriers, shippers, or 3PLs.

• Hoptek https://www.hoptek.ai/ A Kearney funded company offering optimization tools for truckload operations.

• Highway https://highway.com/ is A company focused on enabling those along the supply chain to eliminate double brokerage and fake carriers.

• Renaissant https://renaissant.com/ Automating real-time, ground-level driver, yard, and related warehouse processes and workflows. 

• Gatik https://gatik.ai/ An autonomous truck company with a focus on repeated operations over the same route.

• Aurora https://aurora.tech/ is An autonomous truck company focused on carriers serving the intercity markets.  

• Kodiak https://kodiak.ai/ is An autonomous truck company focused on carriers serving the intercity markets.  

• Onramp https://www.onrampcard.com/ A card-less truck fueling system aimed at eliminating fraud.  

• Doctegrity https://www.doctegrity.com/ is a healthcare network featuring low-cost access to board-certified medical doctors and an app that provides a summary of one’s health instantaneously.  

• Navix https://www.navix.io/ is a company specializing in streamlining and automating back office functions to speed up the cash recovery cycle and eliminate accounting errors. 

John G. Larkin

CFA Senior Partner Venture 53

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