38 Best Shipping Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Shipping Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 38 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $44.7m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Pitney Bowes logo

Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes is a Stamford, Connecticut-based company founded in 1920 by Walter Bowes.

3

Funding Rounds

$900.0k

Money raised

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Einride

A company designing and building autonomous electric transportation (AET) systems for freight and cargo.

11

Funding Rounds

$511.8m

Money raised

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EasyPost

EasyPost is a company providing a postage API allowing developers to integrate shipping into e-commerce application.

2

Funding Rounds

$850.0k

Money raised

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Shipamax

A company that participated in the W17 cohort of Y Combinator. It offers data-driven communication platform for bulk shipping, fleet and deal management for operators and brokers

3

Funding Rounds

$9.5m

Money raised

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Vortexa

Provider of real-time global energy and freight analytics solutions.

5

Funding Rounds

$48.0m

Money raised

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Trusted Dispatch

Trusted Dispatch is a Calgary, Canada-based company developing an automated shipping platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

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SendCloud

SendCloud is a Eindhoven-based company founded in 2012.

3

Funding Rounds

$207.0m

Money raised

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Scoop.it

Scoop.it is a San Francisco-based content curation tool.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

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Nautilus Labs

Nautilus Labs is a New York-based company founded in 2016 by Brian O'Clair.

1

Funding Rounds

$34.0m

Money raised

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Daphne Technology

Daphne Technology is an air emissions control system founded in 2017 by Juan Mario Michan.

4

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

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Veeqo

Veeqo is a company founded in 2013.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.3m

Money raised

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UShip

UShip is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2003.

4

Funding Rounds

$66.3m

Money raised

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Norbloc

Norbloc is a blockchain and software development company creating a Know-Your-Customer (KYC) blockchain platform.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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Aeler Technologies

AELER is a logtech company transforming containerized shipping.

4

Funding Rounds

$9.1m

Money raised

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Portchain

Using technology to solve the hardest operational problems in shipping.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.2m

Money raised

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Packlink

Platform for cost-effective package delivery services in Spain and internationally.

3

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

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Rider

Developer of a logistics platform for online sellers. The company delivers e-commerce products from online stores and marketplaces to the customers' doorstep, also provides cash on delivery and cash now, and delivers later service, enabling vendors to receive payments early and deliver goods to their customers on time.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.4m

Money raised

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Scandlines

Scandlines is a Copenhagen-based company founded in 1998.

1

Funding Rounds

$212.3m

Money raised

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AfterShip

AfterShip is an Hong Kong-based company founded in 2011.

2

Funding Rounds

$66.0m

Money raised

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Montonio

Montonio is a payment option platform founded in 2018.

3

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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Instabox

Instabox is a Stockholm County-based company founded in 2015 by Alexis Priftis.

2

Funding Rounds

$228.9m

Money raised

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INTTRA

INTTRA is a Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey-based company founded in 2000.

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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Sendle

Sendle is an Australia-based company founded in 2014.

4

Funding Rounds

$98.1m

Money raised

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Andalin

Andalin is a company founded in 2016.

1

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

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New York Shipping Exchange

New York Shipping Exchange is a platform that unites shippers, carriers, and forwarders to revolutionize the logistics industry .

1

Funding Rounds

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Milk Stork

Milk Stork is a company founded in 2015 by Kate Torgersen.

1

Funding Rounds

$900.0k

Money raised

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Topship

Topship is a Lagos-based company founded in 2020 by Junaid Babatunde.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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Sealution

Sealution is a receivers for internal comms on ocean-going vessels founded in 2020.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised

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PNI Digital Media

PNI Digital Media is a Vancouver-based company founded in 1995.

4

Funding Rounds

$21.3m

Money raised

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OceanScore

OceanScore is a maritime compliance and data-driven solutions provider founded in 2020 by Joerg Molzahn, Albrecht Grell and Wilhelm Loskot.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.6m

Money raised

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Pandion

Pandion is a Seattle-based company founded in 2020 by Scott Ruffin.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.9m

Money raised

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Erasco

Erasco is a Jakarta-based company founded by Irfan Var Halim.

1

Funding Rounds

$838.0k

Money raised

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new York shipping exchange, inc

new York shipping exchange, inc is a New York-based company founded in 2014.

2

Funding Rounds

$28.5m

Money raised

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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MyShippingPost LLP

MyShippingPost LLP is a Bozeman, Montana-based shipping company founded in 2015.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised

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FreightPOP

FreightPOP is a Lake Forest, California-based company founded in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

1

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

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Arta

Arta is a New York City-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised