Radar · Transportation and Logistics in Mississippi
Best Transportation and Logistics Companies in Mississippi, United States
The 34 best Transportation and Logistics companies in Mississippi, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Tenax.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
34companies tracked
$430Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
2have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS × MISSISSIPPI
Our analysis of 50 Transportation and Logistics companies
$13.3b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
50companies analysed
94%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
1996median founding year
57median Fliar Index™
Ranked: Best Transportation and Logistics companies in Mississippi
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Stage | Employees | Founded | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KLLM Provider of logistic transportation and training services | — | Acquired | 1,166 | 1964 | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 2 | Totalms | — | Public | 566 | 1990 | WordPress Block EditorDiviWordPress+38 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 3 | VT Halter Marine Operator of marines | — | Acquired | 526 | 2002 | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Bigm Big M Transportation - Run With The Big Dogs | — | Unfunded | 242 | 2000 | SilverstripePHPChart.js+23 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 5 | CRUM Trucking Home - CRUM Trucking | — | Unfunded | 143 | 1999 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 6 | Dugan Truck Line Home - LTL Overnight Freight Shipping Services | Dugan Truck Line | — | Unfunded | 126 | 2006 | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | ergon trucking Ergon Trucking provides oil, chemicals, and liquid product transportation services. | — | — | 79 | 2012 | Master SliderPHPSalesforce+21 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 8 | royal trucking company Royal Trucking Company is a logistics firm that specializes in freight transportation, distribution… | — | — | 70 | 1968 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | Top 10M | — | — |
Top 2 Transportation and Logistics companies in Mississippi
#1
Acquired · Ridgeland, Mississippi · founded 2001 · 32 employees$330Mraised▾
Acquired · Ridgeland, Mississippi · founded 2001 · 32 employees
Provider of aviation & spans aircraft procurement, modification, operations and financing services
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 22how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 17%Talent
bottom 49%Tech
bottom 32%Global
bottom 29%Market
bottom 21%Funding: Raised $330M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Conventional Debt (Oct 2025)
Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated
Tech: 16 technologies across 2/8 capability areas · Cloud: Azure
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers — 15.9% of this cohort's audience
Hiring (LinkedIn): 7 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum -3 · hiring: Senior Maintenance & Integration Manager
Funding rounds
- Oct 2025Conventional Debt$330M
Founders & team
Investors
Regions Bank
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailAzureBootstrapFont AwesomeGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#2
Funding Raised · Hattiesburg, Mississippi · founded 2021$100Mraised▾
Funding Raised · Hattiesburg, Mississippi · founded 2021
Provider of car rental services
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 531 LinkedIn followers — 3.4% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Customer Sales Representative
Funding rounds
- May 2024Conventional Debt$100M
Founders & team
Investors
WhiteHawk Capital Partners
Tech stack
Adobe Audience ManagerAngularjsCart FunctionalityCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Turnstile
Funding & investor landscape
$430Mtotal disclosed funding
2companies funded
2disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,880,697 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Transportation and Logistics coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States
How research on Logistics & Supply Chain Tech is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Logistics & Supply Chain Tech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 637 United States-affiliated papers.
research sentiment over time
200820172026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 29% → 41% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
- Purdue University West Lafayette28
- Georgia Institute of Technology21
- National Laboratory of the Rockies20
- Idaho National Laboratory18
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology16
leading researchers
Fengqi You · William Crossley · Stephen Schey · Jim Francfort · Kara M. Kockelman · Dajun Yue · Tao Lin · Luis F. Rodríguez
▲
Breakthroughs113 · 18%
▲ 15%→18% share
▲1.2× share momentum2 median citations50% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (15%→18% of field), led by Fleet management.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Fleet management16→21
- Scalability4→9
- Key (lock)1→6
- Supply chain management1→4
- Automotive engineering1→4
Landmark DeepPool: Distributed Model-Free Algorithm for Ride-Sharing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning · 167 cites
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Advancements360 · 57%
▲ 55%→57% share
▲1.0× share momentum3 median citations49% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (55%→57% of field), led by Supply chain management.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Supply chain management5→21
- Scheduling (production processes)8→22
- Sustainability1→11
- Supply chain risk management1→10
- Electric vehicle3→11
Newly emergingAnalytics 0→8 · Big data 0→7 · Battery (electricity) 0→6
Landmark Life Cycle Optimization of Biomass-to-Liquid Supply Chains with Distributed–Centralized Processing Networks · 343 cites
▼
Concerns101 · 16%
▲ 14%→18% share
▲1.3× share momentum1 median citations54% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (14%→18% of field), led by Supply chain management.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Supply chain management2→11
- Fleet management16→24
- Transport engineering3→10
- Supply chain optimization4→9
- Sustainability1→5
Newly emergingElectrification 0→9 · Resilience (materials science) 0→6 · Agency (philosophy) 0→6
Landmark Challenges in Scaling Up Biofuels Infrastructure · 312 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States
Where logistics supply chain is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Boston31 · +0.55
Chicago21 · +0.61
Atlanta21 · +0.50
SF Bay Area18 · +0.54
Ann Arbor16 · +0.46
New York10 · +0.34
Austin10 · +0.38
Pittsburgh9 · +0.63
Seattle6 · +0.48
Los Angeles5 · +0.66
PATENT SIGNAL · United States
Who's filing logistics supply chain patents in the United States
United States logistics supply chain patent filing is accelerating — 946 filings from 617 assignees (2016–2025), led by Amsted RAIL, Crown Equip, UBER Technologies; annual filings 68→95.
946 filings617 assigneespeak 140/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
- Amsted RAIL93
- Crown Equip69
- UBER Technologies65
- Kochanowski George E49
- Miner Enterprises37
- Bendix Commercial Vehicle System35
- R & L Carriers29
- Strong Force VCN Portfolio 201923
Common questions
How many Transportation and Logistics companies are there in Mississippi, United States?
Radar tracks 34 indexable Transportation and Logistics companies headquartered in Mississippi, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Transportation and Logistics companies in Mississippi, United States?
The Transportation and Logistics companies in Mississippi, United States on this list have raised a combined $430M in disclosed equity funding across 2 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Transportation and Logistics company in Mississippi, United States?
Tenax is the highest-funded Transportation and Logistics company in Mississippi, United States, with $330M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Transportation and Logistics companies in Mississippi, United States are funded?
2 of the 34 Transportation and Logistics companies in Mississippi, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Transportation and Logistics unicorns are there in Mississippi, United States?
None of the Transportation and Logistics companies in Mississippi, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Mississippi, United States Transportation and Logistics companies?
The most active investors in Mississippi, United States Transportation and Logistics companies on this list include Pittco, Regions Bank, Stoneybrook Capital, Veritas Capital, WhiteHawk Capital Partners.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.