Daniel Sokolovsky, Founder and CEO, Warp Technologies

Daniel Sokolovsky is the Co-Founder and CEO of Warp, a tech-powered network of freight shippers and carriers. The company primarily supports the “middle mile” of transit, as goods move from distribution centers to fulfillment and sortation centers. A serial entrepreneur, Daniel founded Warp in 2021 with a vision for how technology delivers greater flexibility, visibility, and reliability to the shipping process.

Historically, the logistics industry has been driven by human capital with high touch processes. Whether you’re pricing a shipment, sourcing a carrier, or following a payload through its journey, you can expect that pen and paper, phone calls, and even on-site visits may be involved. Daniel experienced this firsthand while co-founder and CEO at AxleHire, a last-mile shipping and delivery company. While AxleHire’s role was to deliver goods from its fulfilment centers to their final destination, the company faced a key hurdle in tracking upstream payloads and accurately predicting when they would arrive. The middle mile was an opaque segment of their supply chain that required constant human intervention, and finding the right mix of cost and reliability was a constant tension. Daniel described the challenge: “The only way shippers can get per pallet rates today is from less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers. The only way shippers can consistently hit narrow delivery windows today is from dedicated full truckload (FTL) options.” Daniel recognized that if a company could provide an automated system that reduced shipping costs by offering LTL shipping, while still providing the reliability of on-time deliveries, the opportunity would be massive – and thus Warp was born!

Today, Warp’s network of freight trucks and cross docks provides deliveries to carriers such as FedEx, UPS, Veho and many others. The company supports customers with 99% on-time pickup and 97% on-time delivery, while providing an average of 20% savings per week. The company’s network weaves together truckload-sharing, back-hauls, and physical consolidation points, bringing tech driven optimization to the physical realm of logistic. As Daniel envisioned, the company has unlocked per pallet and per cart shipping and pricing, while providing new visibility through the journey.

Prior to founding Warp and AxleHire, Daniel was CEO and co-founder at Berkeley Delivers, a meal delivery platform for college students. Daniel has also been a member of the Forbes Technology Council since 2019, Daniel holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley.

We are thrilled that Daniel recently announced the successful close of the company’s $5.7 million Series Seed round, led by MaC Ventures, with participation from Frontier Venture Capital, Bonfire VC, and others.