GoodShip

Today we are thrilled to announce our $8M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners! The round includes continued participation from Ironspring Ventures, Chicago Ventures, FUSE, and Cercano, with new participation from 53 Stations, Andrew Silver, Nichole Wischoff, and other angels. We would like to thank our new and returning investors and formally welcome BVP Partner and supply chain software expert Michael Droesch to the GoodShip board of directors. With this latest round of funding expect even more great things from GoodShip’s freight orchestration platform including expansions to our new in-app messaging and collaboration features, more exciting data partnerships, and a whole host of platform updates to support our rapidly expanding roster of enterprise shippers. Read more about our raise (and what’s next for GoodShip) from Grace Sharkey 🚛🤖💙 at FreightWaves below! #freighttech #startup #logistics #supplychain

We are hiring! GoodShip is looking to expand our fully remote team with a Senior Software Engineer. Join us in our mission to build a modern freight orchestration platform from the ground up while working with a dynamic, agile team and making a meaningful impact on the business. As a Senior Software Engineer you’ll be responsible for iterating quickly with a small team, designing new systems from the ground up, and establishing engineering best practices to facilitate our ongoing growth. With backing from A-list venture firms and founders of leading FreightTech companies, GoodShip is an incredible opportunity to be part of the next generation of industry-defining logistics technology. If you have 5+ years of industry experience working on product-oriented teams, and an understanding of both frontend and backend technologies (preferably for enterprise SaaS applications), apply here: https://lnkd.in/gM6hAZgZ

Today GoodShip is excited to announce our new data partnership and platform integration with DAT Freight & Analytics! The new embedded DAT iQ rates unlock another avenue for GoodShip customers to benchmark their transportation network performance and uncover cost savings — all directly within the GoodShip platform. GoodShip and DAT built a streamlined, self-service onboarding process for their mutual customers. Shippers simply input their DAT credentials within the GoodShip platform to activate the integration, after which they can configure refresh frequency and customize parameters of the data feed to best support their unique business needs and workflows. DAT iQ rates will also help power GoodShip’s procurement features and recommendation engine, providing users with actionable insights on where in their network they’re overpaying to market and how carrier bids compare to current rates. “Our ability to mine data, understand the market, and collaborate with strategic carrier partners is critical to both our own success and that of the shippers we represent. GoodShip has provided KBX Logistics with an exceptional technology platform that allows our team to quickly discover insights and then drive meaningful actions and improvements." - Jamie Hess VP of Global Procurement at KBX Logistics The integration is now available to all GoodShip customers with a DAT iQ Subscription. Learn more in our press release here: https://lnkd.in/dYbj2tSX

Managing a transportation network is chaotic. With so many stakeholders, data streams, and disconnected systems, it can be challenging to get a clear picture of your network and impossible to take action in real time. But what if you knew exactly where you were overspending to market, without the need for multiple dashboards and a team of data analysts? GoodShip surfaces the top areas for improvement within your network, pinpointing where you’re overspending and underperforming so your team can spend their time taking action instead of sifting through old email chains and outdated reports — saving you 3-5% on your annual freight spend. From network monitoring and benchmarking to running bids and carrier scorecarding, GoodShip is the all-in-one platform for freight orchestration and procurement. Learn more on our website at goodship.io

GoodShip is the “all-in-one” platform for a reason — here’s a quick tour of the key features GoodShip customers use to find and action cost savings and service improvement opportunities in their transportation network👇 ANALYTICS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Unify spend, carrier performance, contract, market rate, and budget data to receive recommendations on ways to reduce spend and improve performance. TRANSPORTATION PROCUREMENT: Run procurement events from mini-bids to annual RFPs in a fraction of the time with embedded carrier performance data, market rates, and automated bid analysis. CARRIER MANAGEMENT: Invite your carriers to a dedicated portal for bid submission, self-service scorecards, and performance management. COLLABORATION: Ground conversations in data with in-app messaging, commenting, and tagging to get vital details out of email and into a single, centralized inbox.

Just wrapped GoodShip’s Q2 board meeting. It's always a pleasure to get this group together, even if virtually. Thanks for your continued support, Ty Findley, Michael Droesch, Stuart Larkins, Aia Sarycheva, Colleen Konetzke, Matt Oshinsky, David Tsai, Nick Boston, and John Pisano. Look forward to reconvening in person again in November — great things ahead!

You know you’re overspending on freight, but it’s difficult or even impossible to find the exact lanes and carriers that need attention. You want more actionable insights into your transportation network, without the noise of more dashboards and spreadsheets to sift through. What you really need is a solution that analyzes your data and pinpoints where in your network you’re overpaying or underperforming, then gives you the tools you need to take immediate corrective action. What you really need is GoodShip. GoodShip’s all-in-one freight orchestration and procurement platform is a collaborative command center that brings freight analytics, carrier management, transportation procurement, and stakeholder communication all together in one solution. With everything centralized the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts, enabling a new level of precision, transparency, and agility when it comes to executing decisions about your transportation network. But don’t take our word for it — here’s more from Matt Rose, Senior Director of Transportation at Kellanova: ”Data visibility and effective insights that connect performance to our P&L is just the beginning. GoodShip is an engine that will drive our transportation performance to a new level. Cheers to a great start!” Learn more and schedule your demo at goodship.io.

We are hiring! GoodShip is looking to expand our fully remote team with a talented Director of Engineering – the first full-time engineering manager role at the company. This is a pivotal leadership role responsible not only for driving the execution of our product roadmap, but also for defining the role itself and charting a course for the engineering organization in collaboration with the CTO. If you have experience managing high impact software engineering teams, both in startup environments and at scale, we encourage you to apply here: https://lnkd.in/ggy3sK8n

After a week of quarterly carrier reviews, the best thing that I can hear from our carriers is that GoodShip enables them to keep an eye on the lanes they are hauling for us- and fix anything BEFORE it becomes a problem. Result: Higher KPI's. So you have ability to focus on other tasks as your carriers have the tools to self monitor and adjust accordingly. Ryan Soskin and I had a conversation last week about our days as carrier representatives for the brokerages we worked for. Nothing is more frustrating than the waste of time of going into a review only to have your shipper/customer blindside you with data you don't have access to. Instead of collaborating on how to build a stronger network, the conversation turns to tedious cross-checking. Carriers want to do a good job for their shippers. And sometimes, like shippers, they are so busy putting out fires it's hard to see if a fire is coming from the same lanes. Working as a team always has the best results when everyone involved is on the same page.

Between phone calls, emails, and messaging apps, there are many ways for transportation stakeholders to stay connected — and to lose critical details in transit. When important network decisions are being made across channels and without a single source of truth, it can be impossible to keep every collaborator fully in the loop, slowing down operations and creating invisible gaps of understanding between individuals and teams. GoodShip’s in-app messaging features ground conversations in data, keeping discussions contextualized, up to date, and all in one place. With the ability to comment directly on relevant carrier and lane records, tag teammates, and easily filter and search through conversation archives, shippers can keep critical details out of convoluted email chains and in a single, centralized inbox. From decision to execution, GoodShip is the all-in-one platform for freight orchestration and procurement. Learn more at our new website goodship.io and schedule your demo today.