Forto

Logistics · Berlin, DE

German digital freight-forwarding platform.

Founders

Michael Wax (Germany · ♂) — A TU Munich engineer who co-founded the Konux rail-AI startup and worked at Bain and BMW, then co-founded Forto (originally FreightHub) in Berlin in 2016 to digitise freight forwarding, becoming CEO.
Erik Muttersbach (Germany · ♂) — A TU Munich engineer who co-founded Forto in 2016, building its digital freight and supply-chain technology as CTO.
Ferry Heilemann (Germany · ♂) — A serial German entrepreneur who co-founded Forto (FreightHub) in 2016 to bring transparency and technology to ocean and air freight forwarding.
Fabian Heilemann (Germany · ♂) — A serial entrepreneur and investor (DailyDeal) who co-founded Forto in 2016 with his brother and partners to digitise global freight logistics.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Mar 2022	Series D Plus Berlin freight-forwarding platform Forto raised a 250M dollar Series D led by Disruptive, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Northzone, at a 2.1B dollar valuation.	$230M
Jun 2021	Funding round Berlin freight-tech Forto raised $240M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.2B valuation, with Citi Ventures, G Squared, Northzone, Inven Capital and Cherry Ventures.	$240M

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