A Bigger, Bolder Vision for Digital Supply Chains

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

FourKites Data Connector allows customers to automatically access and leverage FourKites data directly within their existing business intelligence tool – eliminating the need for manual data uploads or complex workflows.

Data Connector provides the ultimate flexibility for custom analytics and allows customers to start building dashboards in minutes — no implementation or significant developer resources required.

FourKites Launches New Solution for Carriers, Accelerating Connection Time from Weeks to 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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

FourKites Inbound Visibility solution provides deep inbound insights across all modes to all stakeholders in a secure, integrated platform.

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.

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.

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FedEx and FourKites Announce Alliance to Make Supply Chains Work Smarter

FedEx and FourKites collaborate to make supply chains smarter by bringing highly granular visibility into multi-modal and multi-carrier operations with the 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 vast FedEx network to create a new end-to-end supply chain intelligence platform called FourKites X.

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

A major platform upgrade 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, appointment, and facility-specific data — across all modes — providing actionable insights that prevent disruptions and drive efficiencies, and ROI, across the end-to-end supply chain.

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 Mitsui appointed MKI as the exclusive reseller of FourKites solutions in Japan and will lead all go-to-market activities on behalf of FourKites, including carrier and customer engagement.

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 Launches Dynamic ETA® for Ocean and Air

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 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.

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 receives its Seed funding from Hyde Park Ventures, Otter Consulting and an angel investor

FourKites hires its first 5 employees and signs its first truckload visibility customer: Smithfield Foods!

FourKites closes its Series A funding of $13 million, led by Bain Capital Ventures, alongside existing investors Hyde Park Venture Partners, Hyde Park Angels and Otter

FourKites grows to 26 employees in the US and opens its Chennai headquarters with 8 employees

FourKites reaches 75 employees in the US and 50 in Chennai

FourKites raises $35 million Series B funding led by August Capital, with additional funding from Bain Capital Ventures and Hyde Park Venture Partners, reaching 145 US-based employees and 185 in Chennai

FourKites crosses the 300-employee mark, with 140 employees in the US and 165 in Chennai

FourKites signs its $50 million Series C funding, led by August Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, CEAS Investments and Hyde Park Angels, bringing the company’s total investment to $101.5 million

FourKites opens a European headquarters in Amsterdam to meet the unique needs of its growing European user base

FourKites Community launches, giving customers the ability to connect with other shippers and 3PLs in the FourKites network, as well as a direct line to the FourKites Product Team

FourKites CEO Mathew Elenjickal earns Outstanding Tech CEO Momentum Award from 1871 and The Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center

FourKites grows beyond 500 employees, with 250 team members in the US and 260 in Chennai

FourKites Secures $100M Series D Funding from Thomas H. Lee Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital and Zebra Technologies to infuse global supply chains with real-time visibility