Manifold Freight vs Motive
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Seattle spot freight marketplace for trucking carriers increasing load margins 30%; YC W24 $2.4M from ex-Convoy engineering leaders competing with DAT and Truckstop for asset-based carrier load matching and rate intelligence.
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Manifold Freight is a Seattle-based spot freight marketplace for asset-based carriers — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $2.4 million raised including a $1.9 million seed round in May 2024 from New Stack Ventures and Y Combinator — aggregating spot market load opportunities across freight broker networks and digital freight platforms to help trucking carriers find and win spot loads that increase their margins by 30% through better load matching, rate insights, and direct shipper connections. Founded in 2024 by Andrew Huff and Oliver Jones (former engineering leaders at Convoy, the AI freight network that reached $4 billion valuation before winding down in 2023), Manifold reached $5,100 in monthly revenue within just 2 months of launch, demonstrating rapid early product-market fit in the carrier-facing freight technology segment.
San Francisco fleet management platform (formerly KeepTruckin) serving 120K+ customers with AI dashcams, ELD compliance, and GPS; $2.85B valuation competing with Samsara for commercial fleet telematics.
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Motive (formerly KeepTruckin, rebranded 2022) is a San Francisco-based fleet management and physical operations platform providing AI-powered telematics — video dashcams, GPS tracking, electronic logging device (ELD) compliance, driver safety coaching, and fleet spend management — to trucking, construction, oil and gas, agriculture, and field service companies managing commercial vehicles. Founded in 2013 by CEO Shoaib Makani and backed with $400+ million raised including a $150 million Series E in 2021 at a $2.85 billion valuation from investors including CapitalG (Google) and Andreessen Horowitz, Motive serves 120,000+ customers managing 1 million+ physical assets.
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