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About FourKites - The Leading Supply Chain Solutions Provider

Named one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, FourKites connects global end-to-end supply chains with the most powerful technology on the planet, helping our customers and their customers work better together.

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“From Day 1, we have been laser-focused on a singular mission to drive end-to-end supply chain orchestration, with visibility as the foundation. The future of supply chain visibility is here, and we’re continuing to push those boundaries every day.”

Mathew Elenjickal, CEO, FourKites

What We Do

We help companies transform their end-to-end supply chain with real-time visibility. Over 1,500+ of the world’s most recognized brands, including 9 of the top-10 CPG and 18 of the top-20 Food & Beverage companies trust FourKites to digitize their supply chains for greater agility, efficiency and sustainability.

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Where We Are

As the largest visibility platform in the world, we’re tracking over 3.2 Million Shipments daily for our global customer base.

Our massive network reaches 200+ countries and territories across road, rail, ocean and air, and includes over 640,000+ carriers and 98% of the world’s ocean traffic. Founded in 2014, today FourKites has 500+ passionate employees around the world, with offices in the US, Europe and Asia.

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Our Offices

FourKites has offices around the world to support our growing global team, with many more on the way!

North America: Chicago
Europe: Amsterdam, Netherlands | Munich, Germany
Asia: Chennai, India | Singapore

Our Timeline of Innovation

One of our favorite mottos is “Always be innovating.” In 2014, we revolutionized the supply chain industry by introducing real-time visibility, and we haven’t stopped since.

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2023

2023

FourKites Launches Data Connector to Help Businesses Maximize the Power of Supply Chain Data

FourKites announces the launch of Data Connector, an offering that allows customers to automatically access and leverage FourKites data directly within their existing business intelligence tool.

Designed for data analysts who want the ultimate flexibility for custom analytics, Data Connector allows customers to start building custom dashboards in minutes — no implementation or significant developer resources required.

It also eliminates the need for manual data uploads or complex workflows to integrate FourKites data into customers’ business intelligence stacks.

2023

2023

FourKites Launches New Supply Chain Solution for Carriers, Accelerating Connection Time from Weeks to Just Minutes

FourKites introduces Carrier Connect, dramatically accelerating the carrier connectivity process from hours or even days to just minutes through a highly secure workflow. In addition to significant time and cost savings gained by eliminating the manual carrier onboarding process, shippers and their carrier partners enjoy the added benefits of higher-quality and more accurate data insights, together with a one-stop shop where brokers and carriers can manage asset assignment.

2023

2023

FourKites Introduces Industry-first Supply Chain Sustainability Analytics

FourKites announces several new enhancements to its Sustainability Hub, which are designed to provide customers with greater ability to track, analyze and report on the environmental impact of their supply chain logistics operations. Introduced last March, Sustainability Hub offers granular emissions tracking, industry benchmarks, analytics and scenario modeling to help customers meet sustainability goals.

2023

2023

2023

FourKites Introduces Industry-first Enhancements to Eliminate Manual Workflows and Slash Detention Times at Warehouses and Distribution Centers

FourKites unveils extensive enhancements to its automated Appointment Manager solution. With live status updates from customers’ networks, full configurability and end-to-end automation, Appointment Manager is the industry’s first no-touch scheduling tool for warehouses, plants and distribution centers.

Shippers can specify the desired delivery date for both full truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments, and Appointment Manager will automatically select optimal appointment times, securely share appointment data across partner networks, and allow teams to proactively reschedule appointments based on FourKites’ machine learning-based predictive ETAs.

2023

2023

FourKites Launches My Workspace to Empower Customers with Instant, Customizable Supply Chain Insights

FourKites launches My Workspace, a customizable dashboard that displays connected insights from across the FourKites product suite in a single, unified view. This seamless experience allows users to access critical supply chain insights faster than ever, while leveraging the FourKites platform as a single source of truth for the entire organization — from operational users to the C-suite.

2023

2023

FourKites Announces Breakthrough Generative AI Solution to Help Companies Respond to Supply Chain Disruptions

FourKites launches Fin AI, a new natural language interface that helps customers surface buried insights; identify opportunities for optimization; and automate time-consuming tasks, such as assessing the impact of events across a shipment network. Leveraging the largest supply chain data network, Fin AI represents a significant milestone in shifting supply chain managers from reactive to proactive decision-making, and achieving automated supply chain orchestration at scale.

2023

2023

FourKites Releases Powerful Automation and Communication Capabilities to Significantly Streamline Warehouse and Distribution Center Deliveries

FourKites announces several new capabilities within its AI-enabled Appointment Manager solution that further automate distribution center, warehouse, plant and cross-dock pickup, as well as delivery calendar management, while simplifying communication between shippers, carriers and drivers.

2023

2023

FourKites Launches Inbound Visibility Solution to Enhance End-to-End, Shipment- and Order-Level Insights Across Suppliers

FourKites unveils its Inbound Visibility solution, providing deep inbound shipment- and order-level insights across all modes to all stakeholders in a secure, integrated platform.

With tracking that starts before a shipment is even tendered, users can access actionable data across each stage of an order’s lifecycle, and can identify if an order is late or short-filled up to four weeks before delivery, allowing ample response time.

Moreover, any disruptions detected are assigned a dollar amount to help teams prioritize their actions based on business impact.

2022

2022

FourKites Awarded ISO 27001 Certification and Meets Standards for ISO 27017 and 27018

FourKites meets the standards set by the International Standards Organization (ISO) for ISO 27017 for cloud service security and ISO 27018 for data privacy as part of its ISO 27001 certification.

ISO 27017 provides guidelines for information security controls applicable to and specific to the provisioning and use of cloud services, while ISO 27018 establishes commonly accepted controls and guidelines for implementing measures to protect personally identifiable information (PII) for the public cloud computing environment.

Meanwhile, ISO 27001 mandates controls for the establishment, maintenance and certification of an information security management system (ISMS).

2022

2022

2022

FedEx and FourKites Announce Alliance to Make Supply Chains Work Smarter

FedEx and FourKites collaborate to make supply chains smarter by bringing comprehensive and highly granular visibility into multi-modal and multi-carrier operations with the deep network and rich insights of their combined networks.

Through this collaboration, FourKites will be using its machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities with data insights from the FedEx network – which reaches more than 220 countries and territories, linking more than 99 percent of the world’s GDP, through more than 16.5 million shipments daily – to create a new end-to-end supply chain intelligence platform called FourKites X.

2022

2022

FourKites Launches New Unified Customer Interface – The First Solution to Deliver End-to-end Supply Chain Visibility in a Single Platform

FourKites introduces a major platform upgrade that enables organizations to more easily leverage critical supply chain visibility data across their enterprise. The new release creates seamless integration between real-time transportation visibility and facility-specific data — across all modes — providing actionable insights that drive efficiencies and prevent disruptions across the end-to-end supply chain.

With these latest enhancements, data automatically syncs between the platform’s real-time transportation tracking, Appointment Manager and Dynamic Yard® applications to deliver faster, more contextualized multimodal insights that drive ROI across all teams.

2022

2022

FourKites Announces $10M Strategic Investment from Mitsui & Co. to Transform Supply Chains in Asia-Pacific

FourKites announces a $10M investment from Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to expand FourKites’ offerings across the APAC region. This investment encompasses the first phase in an ongoing strategic relationship between FourKites and Mitsui.

FourKites and strategic investor Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”) later appointed Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., LTD. (“MKI”) as the exclusive reseller of FourKites’ leading real-time supply chain visibility solutions in Japan.

MKI, which brings decades of deep experience implementing transformational IT projects in Japan, will lead all go-to-market activities on behalf of FourKites, including carrier and customer engagements.

2022

2022

FourKites acquires leading European supply chain visibility provider NIC GmbH (NIC-place). The combined over-the-road, rail and ocean carrier networks of FourKites and NIC-place creates the largest multimodal carrier network in Europe.

FourKites unveils Sustainability Hub, a suite of analytics tools to provide better visibility into resource consumption and waste generation.

2021

2021

2021

FourKites introduces industry-first ETA solution for air freight—Dynamic ETA® for Air—enabling highly accurate ETAs for 100% of air shipments.

FourKites launches Dynamic ETA® for Ocean, leveraging AI to provide the market’s most accurate estimated times of arrival (ETAs) for 100% of their ocean shipments across all lanes worldwide.

2021

2021

2021

FourKites acquires Haven, Inc., and introduces Dynamic Ocean®, the next-generation, end-to-end platform for international ocean shipment visibility.

FourKites introduces Order Intelligence Suite, a single-pane-of-glass view of the entire lifecycle of every order, integrating order data, load information across modes, yard shipments, inventory visibility and other critical third-party systems.

2020

2020

2020

FourKites introduces multimodal purchase order tracking for all freight, enabling shippers, carriers and receivers to track the full lifecycle of shipments.

FourKites releases its enhanced Instant Messenger, centralizing communications between track-and-trace, dispatch, drivers and warehouse personnel that had previously been sent via third-party messaging, email and phone.

2020

2020

2020

FourKites introduces Dynamic ETA® for LTL to help shippers, carriers and 3PLs track less-than-truckload shipments with 6x more ETA accuracy than industry-standard predictions.

FourKites introduces its next-generation YMS, Dynamic Yard®, bringing real-time visibility to the yard and leveraging live data to bridge yard operations and transportation for the first time.

2020

2020

2020

FourKites introduces its Live Network Congestion Map to track interstate transit metrics, global port delays, and cross-border freight movements.

FourKites releases its FourKites Manager App for Retail, which enables retail workers and merchandisers to track last-mile shipments from local warehouses to retail outlets, in order to optimize receiving and restocking.

2020

2020

2020

FourKites releases ocean-to-rail tracking, unleashing true end-to-end visibility, and adds air shipment visibility to its platform.

FourKites introduces its free Sustainability Dashboard, which analyzes data from shippers, carriers and facilities, and identifies the highest sources of freight-related emissions.

2019

2019

2019

FourKites launches multiple industry first capabilities and product enhancements that changed the real-time visibility category, including: Recommendation Engine, Lane Connect, Smart Forecasted Arrival, Security and Compliance Solutions, Appointment Manager, and its machine learning-powered Dynamic ETA® algorithm, which analyzes 150+ data points with each geolocation update.

2018

2018

2018

FourKites launches its Advanced Analytics suite, helping users centralize disparate data across their supply chain and turn those insights into actionable strategies to improve performance*

FourKites introduces Network Visibility, giving customers unparalleled visibility into their pre-paid and collect inbound freight.

2016–2017

2016–2017

2016–2017

FourKites begins tracking less-than-truckload and rail shipments, and adds parcel tracking capabilities to its platform.

FourKites introduces end-to-end temperature tracking, allowing shippers to track the real-time temperature of a shipment throughout its journey.

2014–2015

2014–2015

2014–2015

Matt Elenjickal founds FourKites, pioneering the supply chain visibility category.

FourKites launches predictive visibility and tracking for full truckload, and signs its first customer: Smithfield!

FourKites introduces its free driver app, CarrierLink®, which supports carriers with visibility into brokered loads or assets — without ELD/GPS connectivity.

Our Leadership

FourKites is led by a talented and experienced group of entrepreneurs, engineers, operators, analysts, creatives, go-getters, innovators and listeners offering a bold alternative to traditional supply chain management.

Our Investors

Our investors are more than investors. They are visionaries and partners, deeply committed to reimagining the future of supply chain. We are proud to have these leaders by our side as we continue to push the boundaries of the status quo.

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