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.
Mathew Elenjickal, CEO, FourKites
We help companies transform their end-to-end supply chain with real-time visibility. Over 1,100+ 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.
As the largest visibility platform in the world, we’re tracking over 2.8 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 420,000+ carriers and 98% of the world’s ocean traffic. Founded in 2014, today FourKites has 550+ passionate employees around the world, with offices in the US, Europe and Asia.
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
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.
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.
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.
FourKites acquires Haven, Inc., and introduces Dynamic Ocean®, the next-generation, end-to-end platform for international ocean shipment visibility.
FourKites introduces Order Intelligence Hub, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
