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FreightWaves

FreightWaves provides global supply chain market intelligence, high-frequency data, and analysis to help customers benchmark, analyze, monitor, and forecast the global physical economy.

freightwaves.com · Chattanooga

CALL NO.CS·FREIGHTWAVES·26
StagePrivate equityMay 2021 · led by Triangle Peak Partners[3][5]
Raised$129Mdisclosed rounds[3]
Headcount101as of Jun 2026[3]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2017[3]
Money

Raised $129M across disclosed rounds.[3]

Private equity closed May 2021, led by Triangle Peak Partners.[3][5]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Triangle Peak Partners, 8VC, Hearst Ventures, Prologis Ventures, Rise of the Rest fund, Fontinalis, Kayne Partners, Story Ventures, Engage Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Revolution.[4][5][7][15]

People

Craig Fuller, Founder and CEO[3][4][20]

George Abernathy, President[4][16][17][18][19][20]

Spencer Piland, CFO[4][16][17][18][19][20]

Michael W. Vincent, Employee #5, Built Go-to-Market Strategy, Sales Organization, Founding Member of SONAR Product Team[4][16][17][18][19][20]

Jeff Mason, Executive Director, FreightWaves Media[4][16][17][18][19][20]

John Bowes, Executive Vice President GM, CCO[4][16][17][18][19][20]

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Sep 24 2026newsEinride, Nvidia partner on heavy-duty autonomous trucking company claim, not independently confirmed[11]
Sep 23 2026newsAlvys acquires LoadOps customers; Optym keeps LoadAi company claim, not independently confirmed[10]
Sep 22 2026newsTabi Connect, Kleinschmidt partner to automate freight quoting company claim, not independently confirmed[9]
Sep 19 2026newsYardFlow lands over 200-site yard automation deal company claim, not independently confirmed[12]
Aug 27 2026newsDeepFabric lands Kenco as It scales supply chain agents company claim, not independently confirmed[13]
Aug 10 2026newsFleetWorks and SONAR partner to put live market intelligence inside the agentic marketplace company claim, not independently confirmed[14]
Comps

FleetWorks · fleetworks.ai · Named together with SONAR in a cited integration announcement: FleetWorks' agentic marketplace consumes FreightWaves SONAR market intelligence, so the same broker and carrier buyer weighing FreightWaves data is also evaluating FleetWorks' booking workflow as...[14]

Tabi Connect · tabiconnect.com · Same buyer and same job to be done: freight brokerages pricing and quoting loads. Tabi automates the pricing decision that FreightWaves SONAR data is bought to inform, and the cited article states freight brokerage is more crowded than ever with thinning...[9]

Alvys · alvys.com · Same buyer (carriers and brokers) and same system-of-record position. A TMS is the alternative place a carrier or broker spends its software budget and sources operating data, so it competes for the same wallet and can absorb the data layer FreightWaves sells...[10]

Kleinschmidt · kleinschmidt.com · Named together in a cited partnership as a freight-capacity data source feeding broker quoting, which puts it on the same data-budget line and same broker workflow as FreightWaves' SONAR capacity and pricing data.[9]

Optym · optym.com · Same buyer (asset-based carriers) and same decision workflow: Optym sells optimization of freight planning and driver assignment, which is the operational decision layer adjacent to the market data FreightWaves sells, and the cited article shows Optym...[10]

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The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[11]

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FreightWaves provides global supply chain market intelligence, high-frequency data, and analysis to help customers benchmark, analyze, monitor, and forecast the global physical economy.

freightwaves.com · Chattanooga

StagePrivate equity
Raised$129M
Headcount101
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2017
CompsFleetWorks +4

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