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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 snapshot

Latest 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

Sources: latest funding · cargo.one Last verified: 2026-07-25

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)

Source: Read source · cargo.one

Series A

2020 €34.3M

Source: Read source · vestbee.com

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from cargo.one's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

bessemer-venture-partners index-ventures creandum point-nine

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.

  • WebCargo (Freightos) direct

    Air cargo booking and rate platform; competes for forwarder digital procurement.

  • Flexport adjacent

    Tech-forward freight forwarder with own platform; different model (operator vs software OS vendor).

  • 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.

Industries

enterprise-saas marketplace ai-ml

Market / IPO context

Editorial / static context — not a live quote.

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FAQs about cargo.one

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cargo.one is an AI-native operating system for air and ocean freight — centralizing rate management, quoting, e-booking, and AI-assisted workflows for forwarders and carriers.
Approximately €17.2 million (~$20M) in March 2026, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, alongside the Cargofive acquisition.
Bessemer Venture Partners (/fund/bessemer-venture-partners) led the 2026 round. Index Ventures (/fund/index-ventures), Creandum (/fund/creandum), and Point Nine (/fund/point-nine) are prior and participating investors.
Yes, in March 2026. Cargofive was a Lisbon-based ocean rate platform; the deal unified air and ocean rate data for cargo.one's multimodal OS.
Flexport operates as a tech-enabled freight forwarder. cargo.one sells software infrastructure to forwarders and carriers — different business models in the same logistics digitization theme.
75+ bookable airlines with industry-leading e-booking confirmation rates per company marketing; plus top ocean carrier integrations post-Cargofive.
Berlin, Germany. Founded 2017. Remote-first team across 28 countries.
Not publicly disclosed. LinkedIn estimates ~$7.8M annual revenue; the company continues raising growth capital for AI expansion.
Approximately €72.2M total per Vestbee March 2026 roundup, including the €17.2M 2026 round and prior raises such as €34.3M in 2020.
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