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cargo.one funding, valuation and investors
Berlin AI-native OS for air and ocean freight — rate search, quoting, and e-booking for forwarders and carriers.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series B extension
€17.2M (~$20M) · March 2026
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
Not publicly disclosed
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
series b · Berlin, Germany
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Bessemer Venture Partners
Other: Index Ventures , Creandum , Point Nine Capital
Overview
cargo.one is a Berlin-based AI-native operating system for freight forwarders and carriers, founded in 2017. The platform centralizes air and ocean rate management, quoting, e-booking, and customer support — integrating with 75+ airlines, top ocean carriers, and forwarder TMS systems. In March 2026, cargo.one acquired ocean-rate platform Cargofive and raised approximately €17.2M (~$20M) led by Bessemer Venture Partners to accelerate multimodal AI workflows. Customers include Kuehne+Nagel, DSV, Hellmann, Lufthansa Cargo, and Qatar Airways Cargo. The remote-first company has ~103 employees across 28 countries.
Why cargo.one is interesting
cargo.one unified 75+ airlines and top ocean carriers into one multimodal rate database, then raised €17M in March 2026 to deploy agentic workflows beside human forwarders — logistics AI that needs data infrastructure, not just copilots.
Product & use cases
Multimodal freight OS combining the industry's largest integrated air and ocean rate database with agentic AI workflows for rate procurement, quoting, booking, and customer support — accessible via web UI, API, or TMS integration.
- Freight forwarder air rate search and instant e-booking across 75+ airlines
- Ocean freight quoting after Cargofive acquisition (multimodal workflows)
- AI-assisted outbound rate requests and exception-handling during booking
- Carrier digital distribution reaching 30,000+ forwarder users globally
Key facts
- €17.2M (~$20M) round March 2026 led by Bessemer Venture Partners
- Acquired Cargofive ocean-rate platform; launched multimodal AI OS
- 75+ bookable airlines; integrations with top 10 ocean carriers
- Customers: Kuehne+Nagel, DSV, Lufthansa Cargo, Qatar Airways Cargo
- Founded 2017 in Berlin; ~103 employees across 28 countries
Funding history (newest first)
Series B extension
2026-03 €17.2M (~$20M)- Bessemer Venture Partners (lead)
- Index Ventures (participant)
- Creandum (participant)
- Point Nine Capital (participant)
Source: https://www.cargo.one/press/cargofive-acquisition-ai-os-multimodal-launch
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Comprehensive multimodal rate infrastructure (air + ocean) built over years of airline integrations — the data foundation Bessemer cited as harder to replicate than individual AI features.
Freight tech funding moderated post-2022, making €17M+ rounds selective bets. cargo.one's Cargofive acquisition creates a multimodal data moat — but wins still depend on airline connection count, booking confirmation rates, and TMS integration depth versus point-solution AI copilots.
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WebCargo (Freightos) direct
Air cargo booking and rate platform; competes for forwarder digital procurement.
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Flexport adjacent
Tech-forward freight forwarder with own platform; different model (operator vs software OS vendor).
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CargoAi direct
Air cargo distribution and booking platform targeting similar airline-forwarder digitization.
Notable stories
- Bessemer's Bob Goodman said logistics AI buyers should evaluate 'underlying data infrastructure' not features — cargo.one's Cargofive deal was explicitly framed as building that foundation for multimodal agentic workflows.
- cargo.one processes 65M+ monthly quotes per industry coverage — scale that predates the 2026 AI OS repositioning.
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