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Elevating the value of freight forwarding.

Our mission

We’re on a mission to unleash the power of AI on one of the biggest industries on the planet, to digitize what is manual, and unleash staggering levels of untapped value.


At its core, the business of global logistics revolves around effective collaboration and coordination between vast networks of different companies, who are scattered all over the world. 


Despite massive technology investments, vital information is still exchanged via email, unstructured documents and brittle connections. This keeps data in silos and operators on their heels.  We saw an opportunity to completely transform the way industry operates, through a unique combination of advanced AI and purpose built business applications.


Today, Raft is used by most of the world's top freight forwarders, who benefit from improved efficiency, stronger relationships, and happier customers.

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“We founded Raft as an AI-first company because we saw an opportunity to empower freight forwarders and customs brokers with technology, and take pressure off their operational teams so that they could focus on their customers instead of their keyboards.”

James Coombes
CEO and Co-Founder

Meet our leadership

James and Nisarg, our co-founders, created Raft in 2017. James had experience living the problem, and Nisarg understood the solution. Together, they saw an opportunity for a product that could use the content of day-to-day enterprise activity to radically improve workflows. Today, Raft boasts a seasoned leadership team, who bring a diverse range of technology and logistics industry experience.

James Coombes
James Coombes
CEO and Co-founder
Nisarg Mehta
Nisarg Mehta
Co-founder
Ovidiu Gavril
Ovidiu Gavril
Chief Technology Officer
Sarah McLaren
Sarah McLaren
Chief of Staff
Sean Chinski
Sean Chinski
Chief Sales Officer
Greg Kefer
Greg Kefer
Chief Marketing Officer
Scott Leishman
Scott Leishman
Chief People Officer
Laura Fava
Laura Fava
SVP of Customer
Adi Zellner
Adi Zellner
VP of Product
Tim Saunders
Tim Saunders
VP of Finance
Lynn-Albert Brandes
Lynn-Albert Brandes
General Counsel

Our investors

Raft is Backed by Group of Premiere Investor

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What our customers say

See how logistics-AI has transformed our customers’ business.

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RAFT SOLUTIONS USED

“When you’ve got 12 branches across the country with different people, everybody's going to enter data in a different way. Now we're seeing it done consistently for the things that we process. And that makes a huge difference for the customer.”

Matt Yankow
Director of Process Optimization
at
Masterpiece International
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RAFT SOLUTIONS USED

AI now takes care of tasks our staff did not enjoy, and the automation required us to optimize our processes, revealing areas for improvement. This has not only streamlined our operations but has also allowed us to provide better service to our customers.

Rob Ardesi
COO
at
Navia Freight
RAFT SOLUTIONS USED

"Nobody likes to do data entry. Wouldn't you rather use the technology to process the data so that you as an operator or a salesperson can focus on value-add tasks for the customer? Employees have come to realize that there's a better use of their time than entering a shipping notification."

Brian Summers
VP Technology
at
Magnate Worldwide
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“Rather than assigning mundane administrative and data entry tasks, we can hand the workload over to capable AI.“

Adam Hill
President & CEO
at
Scarbrough

Reclaim profits buried in manual tasks

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