Perspectives

Today, there's no shortage of discussion about the state of supply chains. But a year before the pandemic hit and set in motion what you might call the great supply chain scramble, Sam Lurye was traveling around the U.S. While visiting warehouses, speaking with truck drivers, and spending time on factory floors, Sam tried to understand the challenges that kept everyone from running a seamless supply chain. In nearly every conversation, problems at the loading dock kept coming up. Despite tech innovation and adoption throughout the logistics value chain, loading docks remained a huge blind spot. Sam saw the opportunity and, in late 2019, founded Kargo, which offers a hybrid tech platform that improves loading dock efficiency by connecting the physical world of freight with the digital ecosystem used to manage it.