Best Transportation and Logistics Tech Companies in Tennessee, United States
The 72 best Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in Tennessee, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Bellhops.
Our analysis of 79 Transportation and Logistics Tech companies
$48.2b in tracked funding; 95% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in Tennessee
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 Freight Payment Freight audit & payment solutions | — | — | Unfunded | — | Ross Harris CEO | — | — | — |
| 2 | AlphaRail IoT-enabled solutions for rail-operations management | — | — | Funding Raised | — | Alex Luna Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | barcom Barcom provides warehouse, distribution, and manufacturing automation solutions. | — | — | Private | 49 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | — | — |
| 4 | Bellhop Offers an online platform for booking packers and movers | — | — | Unfunded | 571 | — | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+27 | — | — |
| 5 | Bitfreighter Provider of web-enabled EDI and data integration management solutions | — | — | Unfunded | — | Brad Perling Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Blue-Pods Temperature, humidity, and handling monitoring solutions for product integrity | — | — | Unfunded | — | Alex Salomon CEO | — | — | — |
| 7 | BOLT System Fleet management & freight tracking | — | — | Unfunded | 14 | — | WordPressBolt CMSMySQL+31 | — | — |
| 8 | Boombinere Online platform providing proxy addresses for e-commerce delivery | — | — | Unfunded | — | Reebs Merani Owner | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+19 | — | — |
Top 12 Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in Tennessee
#1
Series B · Nashville, Tennessee · founded 2022 · 14 employees$17.8Mraised▾
Provider of AI & web-based freight contract management solutions. The company offers solutions for shippers and carriers digitally procure, measure, and optimize contract businesses. It also provides AI-powered insights, automated reports, scorecards, and more.
- Aug 2025Series B$25M
- May 2024Series A$8M
- Apr 2023Seed$7.4M
- Oct 2022Seed$2.4M
#2
Series A · Franklin, Tennessee · founded 2020 · 15 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Developer of a warehouse orchestration platform for optimizing warehouse operations. The platform synchronizes inventory, labor, transportation, equipment, and processes for seamless warehouse management. It adapts to disruptions, eliminates inefficiencies, maximizes productivity, and provides real-time data visibility. The platform streamlines workflows, improves labor utilization, solves dock congestion, and eliminates data silos.
- Jul 2025Angel—
- Jun 2025Series A$1.1M
- Jul 2024Series A$6.5M
#3
Acquired · Memphis, Tennessee · founded 2014 · 45 employees$6.7Mraised▾
Predictive maintenance & remote diagnostics of vehicles. It provides truck owners with sensor units that record data from different components within a vehicle and sends it to the cloud. The data is then analyzed to monitor & predict the health of the vehicle and provide alerts to the fleet owners/drivers.
- Apr 2023Series A$2M
- Feb 2020Series A$1.7M
- Dec 2018Series A$2.7M
- Feb 2017Seed—
#4
Series C · Chattanooga, Tennessee · founded 2011 · 210 employees$52.7Mraised▾
Modern moving solutions: stress-free local, long-distance, and labor services. They offer a better moving experience through easier booking, flexible service options, experienced movers, competitive pricing, and customer support. Services include local moves, long-distance moves, hourly labor, last-minute moves, commercial moves, and packing. They provide transparent pricing, background-checked movers, and an online dashboard. The company focuses on modernizing moving with excellent service, affordability, control, and communication. Customers can book online or by phone and receive ongoing guidance and support. The business model is technology-based, using data to match qualified movers to jobs. They aim to be partners for a fresh start, offering a simple and enjoyable moving experience. They are committed to caring for others, innovation, and relentless improvement. Services include local moving, long-distance moving, hourly labor, packing labor, apartment moving, last-minute moving, commercial moving, and self-storage. Book a move online now.
- Dec 2018Series C$31.4M
- Dec 2015Series B$13.5M
- Nov 2014Series A$6M
- 2013Seed$1.8M
#5
Seed · Nashville, Tennessee · founded 2021 · 5 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Offers a web-enabled marketplace for backhauling empty container trucks. The company offers solutions for truckers to manage and utilize their empty truck returns. The marketplace helps users to find, post, or book empty container transports.
- Mar 2023Seed$1.5M
#6
Seed · Nashville, Tennessee · founded 2022$700Kraised▾
It is a nationwide provider of truck parking and EV charging for trucks and fleets, offering upscale amenities for truck drivers and logistics. They combine truck parking with EV charging to create a nationwide infrastructure network for fleets.
- Sep 2023Seed$700K
#7
Deadpooled · Memphis, Tennessee · founded 2001 · 1 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Engage Technology offers Intelliship and Halo: supply chain management softwares for the trucking industry. Intelliship is a cloud based multi-carrier manifesting and shipment routing software. It integrates with ERP systems to receive order information and automatically consolidates orders for shipping and utilizes a rule-based decision matrix to ensure routing-guide compliance. Halo is cloud based visibility and management software transforming transportation data into meaningful information so that a shipper and its customers can see all in motion shipments moving with all carriers via a single interface. Manages the information received from carriers, systems, personnel and even the national weather service, identifying which shipments need immediate attention.
- Oct 2018Series A$6.5M
#8
Acquired · Knoxville, Tennessee · founded 2006 · 75 employees$6Mraised▾
Gridsmart is a traffic management system that helps to change traffic lights in response to traffic demands. It uses a fisheye camera-based system for traffic data collection, and a patented GS2 processor to track and analyze the data. The system enables real-time remote monitoring & assessment to control traffic signals.
- Aug 2010Series A$6M
#9
Deadpooled · Knoxville, Tennessee · founded 2007 · 11 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of secure locking devices for trucks and containers intended to improve access control. The company's devices can use time, location and access codes to lock cargo, provide tracking for cargo from the web portal, enabling chemical, electronics, pharmaceuticals, food, beverage, apparel, and accessories industries to secure access control for in-transit cargo.
- Mar 2011Seed$300K
- Aug 2010Seed$1.2M
#10
Deadpooled · Memphis, Tennessee · founded 2018 · 8 employees$256Kraised▾
Offers AI-enabled robots for warehouse operations. The company offers robots for managing warehouse operations like loading & unloading pallets, trucks, containers, material picking, sorting, and storage. The robots also help in shifting warehouse loads and materials.
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$256K
#11
Deadpooled · Memphis, Tennessee · founded 2014$605Kraised▾
Cabsolutely provides full IT and marketing solution for cab companies and makes them able to reach the users. For passengers, it provides the Cabsolutely mobile app which aggregates the local, licensed drivers. Graduated from Start Co's Upstart, a GAN accelerator in Summer 2014.
- Jun 2016Seed$500K
- Nov 2014Seed$105K
#12
Seed · Nashville, Tennessee · founded 2016 · 17 employees$202Kraised▾
It provides end-to-end container visibility solutions. The company offers real-time tracking of containers across ocean, rail, and drayage, providing accurate ETAs and proactive exception monitoring. It also includes features such as document management, a customer portal for collaboration, and performance analytics to help improve supply chain efficiency. Its API and TMS integrations streamline data delivery to various systems. The platform is designed for freight forwarders, trucking carriers, customs brokers, importers, and exporters.
- May 2018Seed$202K
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 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.
- Purdue University West Lafayette28
- Georgia Institute of Technology21
- National Laboratory of the Rockies20
- Idaho National Laboratory18
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology16
- Fleet management16→21
- Scalability4→9
- Key (lock)1→6
- Supply chain management1→4
- Automotive engineering1→4
- Supply chain management5→21
- Scheduling (production processes)8→22
- Sustainability1→11
- Supply chain risk management1→10
- Electric vehicle3→11
- Supply chain management2→11
- Fleet management16→24
- Transport engineering3→10
- Supply chain optimization4→9
- Sustainability1→5
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.
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.
- 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
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