How Nexcade is Automating Global Freight Forwarding with Machine Intelligence

Nexcade, building end-to-end automation across air, ocean, and road, led by Dan Bailey and Tasho Kjosev, emerged out of stealth mode and has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Connect Ventures with participation from MMC Ventures, Entropy Industrial Capital, Inovia, and angels, including Charlie Songhurst and Keith Wallington.

Nexcade uses agentic AI to automate logistics workflows, turning unstructured emails and conversations into structured pricing, quoting, and rate management processes that boost speed, win rates, and data visibility for forwarders. Nexcade’s AI agents elevate your pricing, quoting, and procurement workflows so your team can move faster and win more business.

Freight forwarding keeps global trade moving, but work is fragmented across emails, portals, spreadsheets, and TMS systems. Nexcade’s AI agents streamline this complexity, accelerate decisions, and help teams secure more business.

Nexcade’s AI captures hidden information from unstructured communications, structures it, and automates workflows, turnaround drops from days to minutes, and teams shift from reactive firefighting to proactively driving revenue. With freight rates under pressure and margins thin, Nexcade helps forwarders improve efficiency and profitability just as AI reaches a point where it can handle complex, exception-heavy workflows.