We track 9 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
9 entries.
The inaugural, biennial Breakbulk Summit draws on Antwerp’s breakbulk heritage to convene the international breakbulk community to share insights, discuss trends and strategise on the opportunities and challenges shaping modern breakbulk logistics. The programme spans two days at venues including the Kinepolis Business Center, with an evening networking reception.
Choco is a Berlin-based food supply chain platform founded in 2018 by Daniel Khachab, Rogerio Da Silva Yokomizo, and Julian Hammer. The company provides an AI-powered digital ordering and inventory management platform connecting restaurants with food distributors and suppliers, aiming to reduce food waste across the supply chain. Choco reached unicorn status in 2022 with a $1.2 billion valuation and has raised over $300 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Coatue, and Left Lane. The platform links over 10,000 suppliers with more than 15,000 restaurants across Europe and North America.
Controlant is a Reykjavik-born supply-chain visibility company that combines reusable IoT data loggers, cellular-connected gateways, and a cloud analytics platform to give pharma manufacturers, 3PLs, and retailers real-time temperature, humidity, and location data on every shipment in a cold chain. The company became internationally recognized during the COVID-19 pandemic as one of Pfizer's primary visibility partners for global vaccine distribution, where its devices were used to monitor ultra-cold shipments through long intercontinental routes. Beyond pharma, Controlant's platform is used for food, biologics, and other temperature-sensitive goods, with a commercial model that charges per shipment rather than per device so customers avoid the usual capex headaches of traditional loggers. It is the clearest example of Iceland producing a deep-tech, globally relevant supply-chain platform rather than a pure consumer or gaming play.
Forto (formerly FreightHub) is a Berlin-based tech-enabled freight forwarding platform founded in 2016 by Ferry Heilemann, Michael Wax, Fabian Heilemann, and Erik Muttersbach. The company provides digital management of international sea, air, and rail freight shipments with real-time tracking and supply chain visibility through its platform. Forto serves major enterprise customers across Europe and Asia from 21 offices and has raised over $610 million in funding, reaching a valuation of $2.1 billion.
Technology leader at Prewave, a Vienna-based supply-chain risk and ESG monitoring startup that uses AI to track disruptions and compliance risks across global supplier networks. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 Technology Talks Austria conference.
Lyzer is a Logistics-as-a-Service platform for retail and e-commerce operations, covering order management, warehouse picking optimization, and last-mile orchestration. In July 2025, the company announced a EUR 10M Series B and reported over EUR 160M in GMV plus more than 500,000 fulfilled orders across the Iberian peninsula.
Picnic is a Dutch online supermarket that rebuilt grocery delivery around planned logistics instead of adapting the economics of traditional retail stores. Customers order through an app, while Picnic fulfills from dedicated infrastructure and delivers on optimized neighborhood routes using tightly managed electric vehicles. That routing-first model makes the company structurally different from on-demand marketplaces because it reduces waste, increases drop density, and improves unit economics over time. As a result, Picnic is often discussed less as a consumer app and more as a logistics and software company disguised as a supermarket. It is a useful addition to the directory because it represents a European scale-up that won by controlling operations, data, and delivery cadence rather than by pursuing convenience at any cost. The company also broadens the dataset's coverage of e-commerce and supply-chain innovation, showing how category-defining startups can emerge from dense urban operations and disciplined software-led execution. For founders and investors studying European tech, Picnic is a strong reference case for how operational complexity can become a defensible moat rather than a burden.
Suricate Ventures is a Ljubljana-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 by a group of nine partners with backgrounds spanning finance, insurance, law, IT, private equity, energy, and mobility. The fund targets pre-seed to early-growth technology companies in Southeastern Europe, with a smart-money philosophy and minimum ticket sizes from €50,000. Core investment verticals are fintech and insurtech, gaming and metaverse, digital health, and logistics and supply chain. Notable portfolio companies include ZenOwn, Noii, Bloq.it, and VIAR.
Tradeshift was founded in Copenhagen in 2010 by veterans of Denmark's e-invoicing infrastructure and set out to modernize global trade workflows. Its cloud platform connects buyers and suppliers for e-invoicing, procurement, and supply chain finance, using open standards and a network model. Tradeshift scaled to a global footprint with headquarters in San Francisco and offices across Europe and Asia, and it achieved unicorn status after major funding rounds. The company is a flagship Danish fintech and B2B SaaS success.