Top Trucking Startups in 2024

KeepTruckin is a San Francisco-based company that serves more than one million drivers and over 100,000 businesses that power the physical economy by equipping them with the technology needed to improve the safety and efficiency of their operations. Shoaib Makani and his co-founders Ryan Johns and Obaid Khan founded the company in 2013 to serve the trucking industry, a workforce that is essential to the economy but underserved by technology. Today, KeepTruckin’s 400,000-strong network of connected vehicles, ranging from small trucking companies to Fortune 500 enterprises, is one of the largest in North America. The products that KeepTruckin builds deliver integrated value for a diverse range of industries, from construction and oil and gas to distribution and moving and storage. At every turn, KeepTruckin provides cutting-edge hardware and software that leverages the latest advancements in AI and computer vision to solve a broad range of problems for businesses with vehicles — spanning video-based driver safety, Electronic Logging Device (ELD) compliance, GPS tracking, dispatch, and fuel and maintenance. KeepTruckin’s series E round valued the company at $2.3 billion, and it currently employs more than 2,400 people worldwide.

Kodiak was founded in 2018 to redefine long-haul trucking using safe and reliable autonomous technology. Between growing e-commerce and a strong economy, demand for trucking is on the rise. The trucking industry faces major problems: a shortage of drivers, difficult working conditions, and extremely high turnover. According to the American Trucking Association, the industry faced a shortage of 51,000 commercial truck drivers at the end of 2017. Long-haul trucking is primed for autonomous technology. Highway driving is more structured and predictable than urban driving. This means there are fewer decisions for drivers to make and a better fit for autonomous vehicles. We believe that autonomous trucks will play a major role in filling the gap while improving safety, enhancing truck driver quality of life, increasing efficiency, reducing congestion and emissions and creating jobs across the economy.

Denim is the all-in-one financial services platform rapidly disrupting the $250 billion freight intermediary market. Our proprietary technology allows freight brokers to simplify their financing operations and easily access the working capital they need to grow. Denim automates invoicing, collections, and payments – ultimately delivering a better customer experience. A remote-first company, Denim has been named a Best Place To Work by Built In. At Denim, we depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us solve complex problems. We are committed to increasing diversity across our team and ensuring that Denim is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact.

Motiv Power Systems has a vision, to free fleets from fossil fuels. To do this we deliver intelligent all-electric chassis for commercial vehicles, enabling traditional vehicle builders to move away from fossil fuels while continuing to serve the same fleets. Our Electric Powered Intelligent Chassis (EPIC) is Ford eQVM approved, and available for a number of different medium-duty vehicle configurations including walk-in vans, box trucks, work trucks, shuttle buses, school buses, trolleys, and other specialty vehicles.

At Truckbase, we empower small to mid-sized trucking companies with easy-to-use online tools to help them thrive. Legacy trucking software was built and priced for large fleets. Truckbase was founded in 2021 with the vision that purpose-built solutions can meaningfully improve the livelihoods of drivers, dispatchers, operations managers, and owners at small trucking companies. We partner with small fleets to build dispatch, finance, and HR tools that are easy to use and can power their growth.

Haul is a venture-backed company building modern compliance, safety & risk software for commercial fleets. Started by Uber Freight alumni, Haul is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Denver. For more information, visit haulcompliance.com

At FleetOps, our mission is to help brokerages move truckload freight without friction. We achieve that by providing a network of 40,000+ carriers ready to haul loads, In addition to a suite of tools that makes coverage, tracking, delivery, and payment, as simple as possible. We love what we do every day and believe our diverse and talented team consisting of technology and logistics industry experts makes our company great. We recently closed a large round of seed financing and are excited to build out our team and suite of products. The company is fully distributed with team members based all over the world in countries including Canada, USA, and India. We all share the same commitment towards solving challenging problems with real-world impact.

Specializing in truck load shipping between Canada and the United States, we are one of the fastest growing full service transportation logistics companies in North America!

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.