Based in Singapore, San Francisco and Basel, it manages a freight rate and logistics for large international supply chains.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] Matt Tillman, a serial tech entrepreneur, had the idea for a freight and logistics platform in 2014, when he tried to book space on a container vessel to ship a truck.
He created a reverse auction over email, treating all freight forwarders the same, and realized that the process could be automated.
They concluded that the traditional carrier-forwarder-shipper procurement structure was not the best model for shippers in terms of price discovery and booking.
Together with Renee DiResta, they founded Haven Inc.[1][7] FourKites®, a supply chain visibility platform, announced in April 2021 its acquisition of Haven, Inc., and introduction of Dynamic Ocean, a next-generation visibility solution that redefines end-to-end management for international ocean shipments.