Cartage is the future of freight coordination. Transparent, tech-driven and eliminating the need for human coordinators.
Autonomous freight coordination
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### Autonomous freight coordination

Cartage is the future of freight coordination. Transparent, tech-driven and eliminating the need for human coordinators.



Cartage

Founded:2023

Team Size:8

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Abdul Basharat, Founder

Abdul is cofounder and CEO of Cartage. He started his career training as a military pilot. He was the product lead for network and PLG at Rose Rocket (YC S16 trucking ERP) and helped Pathstream launch a B2B platform from 0-1. Prior to tech he worked in management consulting.



### Josh Lampen, Founder

Josh is cofounder and CTO of Cartage. At Rose Rocket (YC S16 trucking ERP), he was a founding engineer on their Platform team, where he led the development of their first workflow engine. He was also an engineer at Together (YC S19). Prior to tech, Josh was a management consultant, and played water polo for Canada's National Team.



### Harman Sahota, Founder

Harman is cofounder and COO of Cartage. He has previously built two logistics companies. The first led to a 500K contract with Sherwin Williams at age 16, and the second, Westcore Logistics, was Canada's fastest growing logistics company in 2023. In four years Harman scaled Westcore from 0-50M Revenue with only 4 FTE, while maintaining 4x industry profit margins.



### Company Launches

[### Cartage: Autonomous freight operations 🚚](

**_Tl;dr:_** You don’t need people to coordinate freight. We replace brokers and logistics teams, cut costs by 30%, and embed visibility into shipping.



**🫠 Problem**  
Manufacturers and distributors in North America spend $400 billion every year on third-party vendors to coordinate freight shipments for them. These vendors are inefficient and opaque and inflate freight spend by up to 50%.



**😁 Solution**  
Cartage is a service-as-software system that coordinates freight shipments between shippers and trucking companies. We replace freight brokers and internal logistics teams. By requiring minimal headcount to coordinate freight, we afford margins traditional vendors can’t, reducing freight costs for shippers by up to 30%.

In addition to cheaper shipping costs, we embed technology into the shipping experience, providing all stakeholders visibility and transparency on shipments.



**😁 Impact**  
We started by selling software to freight brokers, growing to $150k ARR in under 4 months full-time, but since pivoting to replacing brokers, we’ve received immediate love from shippers.

We’ve signed 8 shipper customers since launching in early August, and have acquired [Westcore Logistics]( [Canada’s fastest-growing logistics company]( in 2023. We are on pace to coordinate more than $2m in freight shipments over the next six months.

**👨‍💻 Team**  
[Abdul Basharat]( (CEO) and [Josh Lampen]( (CTO) were early employees at [Rose Rocket (YC S16)]( a leading ERP solution for trucking companies. [Harman Sahota]( (COO) founded Westcore Logistics, scaling it from 0 to $50M+ in revenue within four years.

Fun facts:

*   Abdul trained as a military pilot
*   Josh played water polo for Team Canada
*   Harman started brokering freight at 14



### Other Company Launches

### Cartage: Autonomous freight operations 🚚

We automate repetitive tasks in trucking - think Zapier for logistics

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