Best Transportation and Logistics Tech Companies in Scotland, United Kingdom
The 56 best Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in Scotland, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Machines With Vision.
Our analysis of 54 Transportation and Logistics Tech companies
$6.0b in tracked funding; 95% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in Scotland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Machines With Vision Precision localization solutions for autonomous driving, railways, and robotics | $5M | 51 mo ago | Seed | Anthony Ashbrook Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | 6 patents Event-camera ground-surface vehicle localization for autonomous navigation | 1 award |
| 2 | arc-net Cloud-based platform for authenticating products | $3M | 106 mo ago | Seed | Richard Steeves Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Aiber Cloud-based remote incident management software for aviation and maritime employees | $2M | 50 mo ago | Seed | Anne Roberts Founder @ Aiber | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Coastr SaaS & AI-enabled vehicle rental management software solutions | $2M | 57 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | Cart FunctionalityWix eCommerceWix+29 | — | 2 launchs · 1 award |
| 5 | Traceall Global Supply chain management tracebility software | $731K | 135 mo ago | Seed | Jim Comerford Co-Founder & CTO | 2000 | — | — | — |
| 6 | AmbieSense Developer of robots for ocean data collection | $729K | 114 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ayse Goker Co-Founder | 2005 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Clear Returns Predictive technology helping retailers tackle the problem of returns | $160K | 126 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 8 | PODFather Cloud based transportation management software 21Growth top 47%Product top 47%Funding bottom 46%Tech bottom 34% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 47% Producttop 47% Fundingbottom 46% Techbottom 34% Marketbottom 32% Globalbottom 32% Newsbottom 21% Growth: Headcount 43 → 41 (-5%) across vintages · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Product: 2 published apps (47.1k installs) · Company stage: Series A rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 21/100 | $158K | 15 mo ago | Series A | — | 2006 | DrupalPHPApache HTTP Server+7 | — | — |
| 9 | Stamp Free Digital shipping solution that offers an alternative to traditional mailing, shipping, and returns 21Patents top 37%Moat top 38%Innovation top 43%Funding bottom 49% All 8 signals ▾Patentstop 37% Moattop 38% Innovationtop 43% Fundingbottom 49% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 42% Globalbottom 40% Marketbottom 15% Patents: 9 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 9 filings since 2022 vs 0 in 2017-21 Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 5/10 · IP moat: 9 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 21/100 | $128K | 1 mo ago | Seed | Hugh Halkett Founder & CEO | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 9 patents Automated mail handling and sorting systems for postal processing | — |
Top 11 Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in Scotland
#1
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2018 · 1 employees$127.6Kraised▾
Digital shipping solution that offers an alternative to traditional mailing, shipping, and returns. It utilizes AI technology to allow customers to send parcels and manage returns through a smartphone app eliminating need for stamps, postage labels, or printers. The app provides customers with a Digicode which allows to write on the letter, parcel or online return and then post the item in stampless. There is also an activated barcoded product - the Shipcode for larger volume business customers. and Easycode that allows customers to return online purchases without the need for a returns label.
- May 2026Seed$1.3M
- Nov 2025Seed$106.9K
- Aug 2024Seed$127.6K
#2
Series A · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2006 · 41 employees$158Kraised▾
Cloud based transportation management software. It allows users to create multi drop route plans using its planning and optimization solution. It allows users to upload job information and use optimisation tools to plan efficient routes. The solution can be used by drivers and delivery agents to receive jobs on a handheld device and get electronic POD from the customer. Features include haulier management, tracking, reporting, and more.
- Apr 2025Series A$4.4M
- Sep 2018Seed$158K
#3
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2015 · 10 employees$4.9Mraised▾
Precision localization solutions for autonomous driving, railways, and robotics. The company uses proprietary neuromorphic camera systems equipped with vehicles to build and keep up-to-date visual maps of the ground with millimeter accuracy. Core offerings include a rail positioning solution and an autonomous driving framework. the rail positioning solution enables real-time track monitoring as well as real-time track-bed image capture and analysis.
- Mar 2022Seed$3.4M
- Apr 2019Seed$1.5M
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$28.4K
#4
Seed · Inverness, Scotland · founded 2020 · 5 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Cloud-based remote incident management software for aviation and maritime employees. The company has developed software that allows aviation and marine employees to monitor any risk or incidents. The software has features for employee health management, remote clinicians access, early warning signs, communication system, and AI-based medical events management.
- May 2022Seed$2.5M
#5
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2018 · 18 employees$1.9Mraised▾
SaaS & AI-enabled vehicle rental management software solutions. The company offers hardware (telematics device) & software-enabled vehicle rental management software for two-wheeler rental, car rental, commercial vehicle rental management, and more. It offers modules for fleet scheduling, vehicle immobilization & tracking, digital payments management, and more. Also, it includes customer applications and usage-based insurance solutions for users.
- Sep 2021Seed$1.9M
#6
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2014 · 3 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Cloud-based platform for authenticating products. Its services are offered to support product and brand security, authenticity, and securing the supply chain through data analytics using blockchain technology. It identifies, tracks, and analyses all assets and components along with every interaction across the whole supply chain.
- Sep 2017Grant (prize money)$332.7K
- Feb 2017Seed$2.5M
#7
Seed · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2000 · 1 employees$731.4Kraised▾
Traceall Global is a traceability solution provider. The company's product is a cloud-based product which can be accessed from anywhere. The product can run on a tablet, mobile or a desktop. The product helps in asset management, better control over the supply chain process and in saving costs.
- Apr 2015Seed$731.4K
- Apr 2015Venture Debt$2.2M
#8
Funding Raised · Aberdeen, Scotland · founded 2005 · 4 employees$728.9Kraised▾
Developer of robots for ocean data collection. It offers users solutions for subsea monitoring, archiving, management, and more. It also provides cloud-based software to access the data collected by the vehicles.
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$728.9K
#9
Seed · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2012 · 13 employees$160Kraised▾
Clear Returns is a technology that helps retailers identify the reasons for returns. Returns are mostly caused by products, marketing, service and customer behavior. Clear Returns' solution identifies the reason and triggers preventive and remedial responses. The technology also predicts which products have the highest probability to be returned and the cost to the business, then recommends actions in a timeframe the retailer can act on. Clear Returns was the winner of IBM SmartCamp in the Best New Product and Best E-commerce Innovation categories.
- Dec 2015Seed—
- Apr 2013Seed$160K
#10
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2020—raised▾
Provider of employee transportation management solutions. The platform offers solutions like planning, reservation management, and more.
#11
Deadpooled · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2014—raised▾
Provider of maritime security and surveillance platform
- Jun 2017Series A—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Transportation and Logistics Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Logistics & Supply Chain Tech is moving in the United Kingdom
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 138 United Kingdom-affiliated papers.
- Imperial College London11
- Sustainable Energy Systems10
- University of Southampton9
- Cardiff University6
- Edinburgh Napier University5
- Truck1→4
- Fleet management4→5
- Fleet management11→17
- Supply chain management2→8
- Supply chain optimization3→6
- Sizing1→4
- Aeronautics1→4
- Fleet management1→4
Where logistics supply chain is researched across United Kingdom
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.
Who's filing logistics supply chain patents in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom logistics supply chain patent filing is accelerating — 46 filings from 58 assignees (2016–2025), led by Duraloc, Container Leasing UK, Hydrogen Vehicle Systems; annual filings 1→4.
- Duraloc11
- Container Leasing UK10
- Hydrogen Vehicle Systems8
- Phillips JOHN Arthur7
- Timberbox7
- BAE Systems7
- BP North America5
- Magowan Keith5
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